Design Jam for Impact

Join us for our second edition of the DESIGN JAM FOR IMPACT organized by the DESIS Lab @ Nova SBE and REDE DESIS Lab at the Faculty of Architecture in Lisbon. This is an amazing opportunity to engage in multi-disciplinary collaboration to design, iterate and refine impactful solutions to address social and environmental issues.

WHAT WILL WE DO

The day will be fast-paced and full of hands-on activities to allow you collaboratively generate innovative solutions to help 5 projects (from NovaSBE students and social entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental issues.

We will practice design thinking and learn practical tools to nurture your creative problem-solving and develop meaningful and sustainable solutions to tackle complex social and environmental issues in our communities.

Design thinking is a powerful approach to help develop insights into problems that generate solutions that may otherwise remain hidden to you.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

Multidisciplinary communication and collaboration, journey maps, prototyping, scenarios and storytelling.

More than anything, you’ll have the opportunity to work with like-minded passionate people from different disciplines!

HOW?

As a participant, you will be a creative collaborator. As such you will work with 5 projects which address a social and / or environmental issue. They are passionate by their idea but they also believe in the power of collaboration and diversity, and are looking for creative inputs and different perspectives.

The workshop will be facilitated by Anne-Laure Fayard (Nova SBE) and Inês Veiga (FAL). (See below to know more about our team).

WHO?

If you are passionate about impact and want to hone your design thinking skills, flex your creative muscles and nurture your collaborative power, sign up and join us on April 1st!

THE PROJECTS WE WILL BE WORKING WITH:

-> CEBRA. Transforming young professionals into future responsible leaders. Focus: Leadership Education

Group representatives: Milosz Kwapiński & Marielen Winter

-> Imperfecti Design Focus: Environmental Sustainability

Group representative: João Anes

-> AGOJI Studio Focus: Sustainable Fashion and women empowerment

Group representatives: Charlotte Kramer & Linda Reitberger

-> SufHeat Focus: Environmental Sustainability

Group representatives: Alena Kananovich & Kirill Lazarev

-> Bloody Marie Focus: Health

Group representatives: Josef Zimmerer & Mariella Von Der Wense,

This event is OPEN to all people interested in collaborating and co-creating for social impact. We have a limited number of seats.

Lunch will be provided.

OUR TEAM

Anne-Laure Fayard, ERA Chair Professor of Social Innovation, coordinator of Nova DESIS (design for social innovation and sustainability) Lab, and Visiting Research Professor at NYU. And most of all a passionate design thinker who cares for impact!

Inês Veiga, Assistant Professor at FA-ULisboa, designer and designer researcher crossing graphic design with intervention and local and social causes.

We will also have the chance to have the participation of two of our DESIS Lab@NovaSBE mentors – Catarina Lisboa, Joana Ramalho, Mafalda Paiva Chaves and Alisson Avila To know more about our mentors

The workshop is coordinated by Beatriz Bento, our wonderful DESIS Lab@NovaSBE community manager.