We invite civil society organisations from the Eastern Partnership region (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) to take part in a Webinar & Workshop on Designing for Impact – Leveraging Human-centred Design for Good on January 25 and 26, 2021!
We will be focusing on the basics of the design thinking methodology as applied to the social change sector. We will cover the process of designing a product or service for impact, including problem definition, idea validation and exploration, and logic models. Participants will be able to combine classic models for civil society organisations with user-centric approaches to design and development. The methods are applicable throughout a wide range of domains, from large NGOs and governments institutions to small social start-ups and volunteer communities.
This time the webinar will be followed by a workshop (with a limited number of participants) using the real cases of participants interested in sharing their current work. If you are interested in presenting your project/idea in a design feedback session (in front of the group) please mention it in the registration form.
Webinar: Designing for Impact — Leveraging Human-centred Design for Good.
When: January 25, 2021 at 12 pm Brussels time.
The Webinar will be held in English with Russian interpretation.
The Webinar will be followed by a workshop with a limited number of participants (15 max). Those who are interested and available to attend the workshop will need to fill in section 4 of the registration form. They will be invited on a first come first served basis.
Workshop: Designing for Impact – practical experience in applying design thinking in respective projects.
When: January 26, 2021 at 12 pm Brussels time.
Important: The Workshop will be held in English ONLY.
To attend the webinar and the workshop, please register here.
Speaker: Eileen Wagner
Eileen is currently Programme Director at Simply Secure, a design non-profit working on the usability of public interest technology. She advises teams and organizations on UX design, leads research and user testing, and produces open resources for the community. In 2019, she founded Decentralization Off The Shelf – an initiative aiming to make UX design more uniform across the decentralization space, and to ease the adoption of P2P protocols for application developers. Prior to Simply Secure, Eileen campaigned for open data and civic tech at the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. There she helped establish the first public funding programme for open source projects in Germany, the Prototype Fund. Her background is in analytic philosophy and mathematical logic.
What you will learn:
- Webinar:
- Introduction to the methods of human centred design thinking in project design and implementation.
- Familiarisation with examples of design thinking applied to the social sector.
- Being exposed to a live discussion on design, values and impact.
- Workshop:
- Hands-on experience with design thinking practice.
- Practical experience in applying the knowledge obtained during the webinar to improve your own project.
- Learning from others’ experience and knowledge through active discussion.
DURATION:
The duration of each webinar will be 1.5 -2 hours.
MATERIALS:
All registered participants will receive the speaker’s presentation, additional materials and the link to the recorded video.
HOW: ZOOM WEBINAR
All registered participants will receive a link to the webinar room by email.
The Webinar will be conducted in English with Russian interpretation. The Workshop will be held in English ONLY.
To attend the webinar and the workshop, please register here.
