The Professional Development Collaborative is partnering with Elon’s Center for Design Thinking to offer six lightening 50-minute workshops featuring tools and strategies for participatory design, digital storytelling, democratically engaged assessment, equity-centered community engagement and more!
You can choose any two 50-minute lightning workshops beginning at either 10:10 or 11:10 am EST on Friday, June 4th. Check out the full list of options and register for sessions below.
Enhance your design skills with collaborative project-planning. Gain tools for iterative making. Engage across diverse communities and more.
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10:10 - 11:00 AM Sessions
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Participatory Placemaking: The Nuts & bolts of Cross-Institutional Collaboration
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Lucy Crown, Sekou Coleman, Leslie Rosenberg, Sara Sanders, & Susan Reiser
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What does it look like to curate public art projects in and with diverse communities? How might you share power equitably and collaboratively design projects across educational, governmental, and non-profit institutional boundaries? This session features lessons learned from Beloved Nasty Branch in Asheville. Strategies from governmental and educational perspectives will be shared.
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Digital Story-telling Tools & Best Practices
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Sandy Marshall
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Digital storytelling refers to the practice of ordinary people using easily accessible digital tools to share their stories. Combining the intimacy of the human voice and personal snapshots, and using archival images and sound to contextualize individual experiences, digital storytelling can be a powerful form of expression that situates individual stories within broader social narratives. As such, digital storytelling has been used as a participatory research method and critical pedagogical practice that enables participants and students to share their stories and experiences in their own voice. This session will explore the roots of digital storytelling in oral history and will introduce participants to the tools and methods of digital storytelling with emphasis on the place-based and place-making power of storytelling.
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11:10 - 11:50 AM Sessions
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Beyond Community Engagement: Towards Social Justice
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A. Calabrese, M.Kahane, C. Lawson Jaramillo, & E. Uzer
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Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to critically reflect on your ongoing or upcoming community engaged courses and projects. We will lead the session through a set of questions that will hopefully advance your work towards mutually beneficial exchanges. Sample questions include: How does your course engage students in reflecting about privilege, positionality, and power, and how these may surface in community-classroom collaborations? Are you already a member of the community and/or were you invited in? How will you ensure that this partnership does not create a drain on the energy and resources of the partner organization? How have you prepared to take on this kind of teaching? How will you use this course and partnership to leverage and redirect university resources to the partner community?
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Build to Test: How to Learn from the Scrappiest Prototype
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Glory Dang & Kate Shulman
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Learn how to build an incredible prototype in under 1 hour that will make a lasting impact on your project direction. In this workshop, there are no excuses for skipping the test phase because you “don’t have enough time.” We’ll show you how: from isolating core assumptions in your concept to planning how you can test and validate your ideas, to building MVPrototypes and using them as a conversation piece for learning more from your project partners. You'll leave this workshop with concrete examples, an interactive worksheet, and a facilitator's guide to jumping confidently into prototyping and testing.
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The Wrong Theory Protocol: A Pre-ideation Technique To Generate Empathetic & Creative Ideas
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Vanessa Svihla
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Our first ideas are seldom our best. Many turn to brainstorming/ideation techniques, yet struggle to come up with ideas that help them progress. Fixation can make it challenging to have insight that is genuinely new. Inspired by the idea that the darkest night comes before the dawn, the wrong theory protocol engages participants infirst coming up with terrible ideas before coming up with ideas that are creative and empathetic.
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Democratic Engaged Assessment
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Sarah Stanlick
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What does assessment mean to you? How does it appear in your work currently? How might we imagine and create assessment that can challenge systems of injustice, reclaim power, and transform our communities, especially in this time ripe for creative disruption? In this session, we will highlight some stories of assessment done differently, engaged in values, and with the purpose of inclusion and transformation in mind. We will explore together the concept of democratically-engaged assessment, which is an orientation to and framework for assessment that is explicitly grounded in, informed by, and in dialogue with the (contested) values and commitments of democratic civic engagement.
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