Participatory Design and Facilitation (Online)

Course

Online

£ 450 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Duration

    6 Weeks

A course based on design sprints to learn how to plan co-design workshops and facilitate design thinking sessions for mixed audiences. When developing a new product-service, initiating a new research project or engaging a community in decision making, a rich contribution of all the stakeholders is crucially valuable...

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Subjects

  • Decision Making
  • IT
  • Works
  • Design
  • Design techniques
  • Design Methodology
  • Project
  • Planning
  • Strategic Planning
  • Design portfolio

Course programme

A course based on design sprints to learn how to plan co-design workshops and facilitate design thinking sessions for mixed audiences. When developing a new product-service, initiating a new research project or engaging a community in decision making, a rich contribution of all the stakeholders is crucially valuable. This course is a guide to the complex mix of skills necessary to make participatory experiences enjoyable and productive.


Course level - Beginner / Intermediate

Who is the course aimed at?
Design consultants, project managers, facilitators, civic servants, service designers, design researcher

What will I take away from the course?
The necessary elements to implement a co-design workshop, from its inception to its execution as well the necessary stages to document and synthesise outcomes. An open and adaptable process to generate highly empathic learning flows in participatory process.

What are the key topics the course will cover?

  • How individual and collective creativity works
  • How to activate a creative and collaborative mindset in workshop participants
  • How to set the space for workshops
  • What graphic facilitation is and how to use it
  • How to communicate, document and report a workshop

What will the students learn/ achieve?

  • You will learn how to independently plan all the aspects of a design thinking workshop
  • Acquire the necessary skills to facilitate a workshop
  • Coordinate a series of workshops that fit within a complex participatory design

This course will include:

  • Design thinking workshops
  • Design sprints
  • Project work

Course Outline

Week 1
Pros and cons of designing together. Different types of participatory design and facilitation

Week 2
Step to step guide on how to design a workshop and a participatory process

Week 3
Tools and methods for facilitation

Week 4
Graphic facilitation

Week 5
Documentation and reporting toolkit

Week 6
Project work, strategic planning

Week 7
Project work, workshops planning

Week 8
Project work, facilitation rehearse

Please note: This course is for students aged 18 and older

Participatory Design and Facilitation (Online)

£ 450 VAT inc.