How can you empower change as a designer?
For multiple stakeholders, they have been creating design solutions to open and complex questions by using different contemporary and academic design methodologies, including Speculative Design, Collaborative Design, Transition Design, Design Anthropology and Design Thinking.
On Friday 21 April, they presented their design outcomes to the stakeholders. Some of the reactions were: “The students have pointed out how much biodiversity and human well-being is important when designing” and “It was great to see how the students really dove into our core business, and came with very concrete solutions on the problems they found."
Strategic onboarding and more commitment
The students from our MA Design for People programme and SDU Design Management collaborated with Peter Larsen Kaffe, finding answers to the question “How can Peter Larsen Kaffe find ways of strategically onboarding new members and creating a higher level of commitment to Circular Coffee Community?” The students came up with interesting design solutions, such as a co-designed system framework where they envision interns as the heart of the organization and the driving force connecting knowledge, design and innovation across the community partners. Project by Eleonora Falqui, Troels Torp, Kadja Hansen, Kim Jieun, Manmohan Ghuman and Leah Carys Wilce.
More biodiversity
Region Midtjylland had asked the students from the MA Design for Planet programme and SDU Design Management how they might bring more biodiversity to Randers Hospital. The students came up with many different design answers. In one of them, the students who focused on anthropologic design made the study of people's behaviours in nature and in the hospital. This formed the basis for a communication plan and the design of areas suitable for all. Project by Beatriz Isca, Ieva Mikutaite, Lena Thouelin, Rakel Villesen and Virginia Casonato.
Becoming a sustainble company
SOS International had asked the students from the MA Design for Play programme and SDU Design Management how they might become a more sustainable company. The students focused on different aspects of sustainability and came up with playful answers. For example in the theme of speculative design, they created a light installation at the call centre of SOS International, which changes colour according to the mood of the customer calling in. The lights are meant to create more empathy between the call agent and the customer. Project by Thilde Hvidtfeldt Freiesleben Laursen, Ornella Sol Gianforte, Lucia Malley, Baptiste Sand, Michele Casula and Ishaan Arora.
Design School Kolding would like to thank all stakeholders and collaborators for taking part in the Empowering Change course.
