Design Jam for Impact

One-day design jam to co-create in order to tackle social and sustainability issues. Come and work with 6 teams from NOVA SBE and FAL!   

Join us for a one-day design jam 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 students’ projects 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 6 student teams (from NOVA SBE and from FAL) who have developed a project to 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.  

 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 9! 

OUR TEAM 

Anne-Laure Fayard, ERA Chair Professor of Social Innovation, Academic Director of the SocialinNOVA Hub and coordinator of NOVA DESIS (design for social innovation and sustainability) Lab. …. 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. 

Marco Neves, Assistant Professor at FA-ULisboa, Coordinator of the Interaction Design Master’s degree, coordinator of the Design, Interaction and Visualization research group and enthusiastic about ideas that go beyond expectations. 

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