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Design for Living & Learning is a 2 quarter course open to pre-assign residents of the Lantana Design House. Through hands-on activities, readings and lectures you will learn how to design experiences that meet the hidden needs of your fellow residents. You will assume the role of designer-in-residence as you learn techniques for need finding, radical-collaboration, rapid prototyping, and get a chance to bring your ideas into reality. Students who take on a larger project load will be eligible for 2 units. Must sign up for DESINST 110A and DESINST 110B. Learn more at dschool.stanford.edu.

From COVID-19 to racial injustice, lack of diversity to economic inequality, our current state of unsettledness makes the importance of organizational culture clear while demanding a proactive reworking of these cultures to respond to the needs of these times. Ann Swidler's seminal work on culture* (1986) states that people use culture as a toolkit in unsettling times as a way to cope with change. Inside this toolkit, there are culture practices, including organizational habits, routines, rituals, and stories, which help run meetings, work processes, and human relationships. This class will tackle how organizations can build strong, human-centered cultures to address the urgent challenges of our times. The class will combine two areas: organizational culture and human-centered design. It starts with the premise that an organization's culture is shaped not only by executives, and managers, but also individual employees. Students will learn a holistic, participatory approach to culture-making, by covering both top-down and bottom-up initiatives to improve culture. This course's format is based on understanding and internalizing theory, by applying its key concepts to reflection exercises, and design projects. In this class, students will first survey theories, methods, and case studies to learn how organizational culture is built and changed. They will then reflect on these theories and methods. Then they will use a human centered, iterative design process to build an understanding of organizational culture through group projects throughout the semester. on burning topics of current organizational culture, including high-performance, creativity, equity, diversity, and wellbeing.

How might we design for communal safety beyond the prison industrial complex? Through recognizing the prison industrial complex as a design problem, we will explore both how established institutions (like prisons and policing) are impermanent and the possibility of designing beyond them for our communal betterment. Together with partners from the community leading the movement to abolish prisons, you will generate new design concepts of freedom and safety. You will evaluate the prison industrial complex's inability to invest in communal safety and prototype design ideas that contribute to alternative systems of justice that reject carceral harm. In order to inform and inspire our work, we will uplift and center the voices of the impacted, particularly incarcerated folks. Students of all backgrounds are welcome, directly impacted folks, and Black and Brown students are highly encouraged to apply. The class will consist of Stanford students as well as underrepresented members of the community and non-traditional students.

In this class, we will explore complex concepts of systemic and interpersonal oppression and racism, understand how these concepts manifest on our campus and in our communities, then design and prototype meaningful interventions for impact. We will stand on the shoulders of giants who have come before us while also blazing entirely new trails of our own discovery. Our communities are relying on us to leverage the momentum of this moment, our voices, and our unique skill sets to deconstruct systems of oppression and racism; let's stock our collective toolbox, together.

Let's design the world we want for ourselves and the next generation. Let's make space for a variety of Black & Brown voices with diverse expertise to imagine this future. Let's design, build, and test solutions to our world's most pressing problems - together. In this course, your attendance will be alongside Black and Brown community members that live, work, and play outside of the Stanford University experience. You will learn about the implications of Policy, Ethics, AI/ML tech, Culture, the Environment and their impacts on all facets of your agency as an individual as well as on our society as a whole. You will hear from subject matter experts across many fields, dig into historical societal struggles, identify challenges, prototype solutions, and present your ideas to a special panel of industry and community rock stars at the culmination of this experimental class. Each week, learners will be led in a series of participatory lectures and active provocations by Black and Brown creative misfits, leaders, and voices in policy, the arts, design, activism, technology, education, and entrepreneurship (amongst other things). They'll share their work, passions, and insights on how they've navigated and advocated for the inclusion of diverse voices as we look to solve some of the challenges of our generation. Each week, lecturers and guest speakers will challenge learners with an actionable provocation that will be worked out in the weekly on-campus design studio time. At the end of the 10-week course, learners will be armed with the design fundamentals, growth mindset, and community. They will pitch a prototype of a solution that they have worked on to address one of the issues we have touched on in previous lectures. They will present this prototype in a Demo Day format to a panel of special guests as a capstone activity. If you want to be part of a movement towards building access, opportunity, equity, and space for historically marginalized groups then you've come to the right place. Join us! ** Students of all backgrounds are welcome, and Black and Brown students are highly encouraged to apply. The class will be comprised of Stanford students as well as underrepresented members of the community, non-traditional students, and working-class adults.

The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new normal. In-person exchanges at work, school and social gatherings were quickly replaced with virtual interactions. Even as we cautiously emerge from lockdown, some of the fragmented, unequal, and occasionally awkward virtual interactions are here to stay... unless designed differently. The good news is that the pandemic fading to our rearview mirror gives us a great opportunity to design hybrid learning and interactions to be more inclusive, connected, adaptive, and resilient - with intention. In this class, you will design hybrid spaces, practices, and experiences at the d.school and in your home environment that optimize our blended new reality, holistically combining in-person and virtual interactions. You'll design practices that promote inclusion, connectedness, and mutual accountability. And you'll design a learning experience of tomorrow, inspired by the Open Loop Learning concept of lifetime learning for Stanford. Develop your creative abilities and solve critical challenges of our new hybrid reality. Reimagining Campus Life course immerses students in the challenge of creating the university experience of the present future.

We all want to have impact - even Stanford's purpose is to 'prepare students to...contribute to the world.' But words like impact, purpose, change, and even innovation have lost their teeth. In this intimate seminar, students will put the bite back into these ideas, learning a diverse toolkit of strategies to enable them to make a positive dent in complex ecosystems through companies and capital. Through weekly, student-led dialogues with leading private-sector change-makers - including unicorn founders, investors across asset classes, and iconic C-suite executives - we'll explore questions like:How do you introduce new innovations to old markets? How do you identify, manage, and mobilize stakeholders within an ecosystem? How do you deploy capital for positive social and financial returns? What are the strategies for companies to be good corporate citizens? What mindsets enable leaders to effect change? How does design support innovation for impact? What are the key issues and megatrends shaping the future of private sector innovation and impact? As a way of synthesizing key insights, students will create a public-facing design project (e.g.co-publishing a book of lessons, authoring a series of articles, creating content for social platforms, producing live video or audio, some combination, or something else!). Alongside this core project, students will also be paired with a mentor from the instructors' networks who will help them reflect on their own interests in impact and innovation.

During this unique moment in time, with the pandemic still looming, and racial reckoning in America, the importance and the role of play in designing experiences is an essential tool that enables us to collectively navigate ambiguity, build trust and re-imagine assorted legacy systems. In this class, students will explore the playful nature of creativity to help Playworks ensure schools and families have opportunities for safe and healthy play and design programming which builds equity, trust, and understanding for its players. Students will learn how the playful mind is essential to productive thinking and underlies the creativity required for the best ideas. In this course we are asking: How might we design play-based learning experiences easy enough for anyone, any school, any parent, or any kid to pick up or lead with no prior training? This class is for students of all experience levels; we will redefine play as we learn and develop skills to move from the abstract to the concrete -- with meaning, goals, and principles.

When we seek solutions for grand challenges, we are wise to not assume we need to design the solution from scratch, but rather to first look for early signs where things are already working in the wider field--a phenomenon known as "positive deviants" or "bright spots". In this hands-on course, students will learn how to identify bright spots in education, and then use design to create a means to try to equitably spread those practices. Take this course if you are interested in learning about the intersection of design + scaled impact + social justice.