co-op lab challenge 2
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IDC LAB: COOPERATIVE
PUIC 3101 IDP 7539
Spring 2013
Parsons The New School for Design
School of Design Strategies
Integrated Design Program
CHALLENGE 2:A Focus Tool(learning how to question, analyze, focus, communicate and co-evolve ideas)
Objective: Identify a pressing problem/issue within a certain organization, community, or group.
Create a visualization that both poses relevant questions and communicates your concept of how
to answer these question using collaborative or participatory methods. Investigate how you could
use your visualization with other people to hone your understanding and generate new ideas.
Deliverables: 1) poster 2) 30-second pitch
The goal of Challenge 2 is to help you identify a theme, idea, concept, and process that connect
your design interests to a cooperative service, system, or solution (to be developed in Challenge
3). You may choose to build on the insights revealed in Challenge 1 (using your explorative tool) or
you may decide to go in a different direction (using research done in your studio, for instance).
To focus your idea, you must first open yourself up to possibilities. To do this, you will be asked to
generate ideas and questions that provoke thought, reveal opportunities, and begin to frame your
understanding of a particular issue. Good questions open doors to new ways of looking at a
challenge. They should evoke a sense of energy and optimism, where anything is possible.
Once you have examined what you know and dont know about your chosen issue, you will be
asked to visualize your understanding of how this issue manifests itself within a certain context or
community. Your visualization should clearly communicate you understanding while at the sametime inviting others to edit, amend, or suggest alternative interpretations and scenarios.
Next, you will devise and deploy a method, technique, or strategy for collaborating with members
of your chosen context or community, in order to test your assumptions, refine your visualization,
and generate new ideas. The emphasis in this exercise will be on having your community
collaborator(s) auto-diagnose their own problems while co-evolving solutions with you.
Finally, you will create a poster of your visualization refined by input from your community
collaborator(s) and use it to present your proposal for a cooperative design solution. The final
review for this challenge will involve an idea speed-dating session, in which you will have 30
seconds to pitch your proposal to classmates and form groups for Challenge 3.
DEADLINES:
Mar 7 [Week 6]:
Task B
Visualization of a
community issue
Mar 14 [Week 7]:
Task C
Strategy for co-
evolving concepts
Mar 21 [Week 8]:
Task D
Deploy and
document tool
FINAL REVIEW
Mar 21 [Week 8]:
Refined Poster
and 30-sec. pitch
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CHALLENGE SCHEDULE:
Feb 28
[Week 5]
Review collaborative tool
examples, introduce
CHALLENGE 2
CHALLENGE 2 Task B:
Identify a pressing problem/issue within a certain
organization, community, or group. Visualize your
understanding of the actors, structures, and forces
involved, and consider strategies for generating wider
knowledge.Mar 7
[Week 6]
Expert insight presentation,
studio time
Sections Meet Together:
Room TBD
CHALLENGE 2 Task C:
Develop a tool, technique, or method for collaborating with
your chosen organization, community, or group, to test
assumptions, focus questions, and generate solutions to
your chosen problem/issue.
Mar 14
[Week 7]
Studio time, skill workshop CHALLENGE 2 Task D:
Deploy your focus tool and document its setup, use, and
results. Create a poster for review, including evidence ofyour visualization, intervention, and refined understanding
of the central problems and opportunities for design.
Mar 21
[Week 8]
REVIEW CHALLENGE 2,
introduce collaborative
system examples, final
group formation
CHALLENGE 3 Task A:
Identify an example (case study) of a collaborative
system. Create a PDF (tabloid-sized, landscape) including
the name of your collaborative tool, at least one
representative image, and a short description of its users,
usage, and outcomes. Email me your document and print
it out for review next class.
READ: Whats Mine is Yours, by Rachel Botsman, Intro