Online in Guatemala: A Co-Creative Design Project with a Mayan community (autumn 2020)

The «Digital Study Trip» is part of the CAS Design Cultures of the MAS Strategic Design and is a collaboration among ZHdK, MIT D-Lab, and Link4 Guatemala. In this 5-day online design experience participants get to deepen their intercultural design and social skills, practising co-creation and strategic design with members of a Mayan community in Guatemala.

  • [Translate to English:] Digital Study Trip Guatemala[Translate to English:] Digital Study Trip Guatemala
  • [Translate to English:] Digital Study Trip Guatemala[Translate to English:] Digital Study Trip Guatemala
  • [Translate to English:] Digital Study Trip Guatemala[Translate to English:] Digital Study Trip Guatemala
  • [Translate to English:] Digital Study Trip Guatemala[Translate to English:] Digital Study Trip Guatemala

  • Overview

    Title
    Design Cultures Experience: Co-Creative Design Project with a Mayan community in Guatemala in collaboration with MIT D-Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and local partner organizations in Guatemala

    Topic
    Using Strategic Design for building resilience, business innovation and new forms of tourism with Mayan community members

    Where
    Onlinesession (remote)

    Dates

    • 19  November 2020, 4 – 9 pm, Online
    • 20 November 2020, 4 – 8 pm, Online
    • 21 November 2020, 11.30 am – 7 pm, Online
    • 27 November 2020, 4 – 8 pm, Online
    • 28 November 2020 , 4 – 6 pm, Online

    Beside class hours
    Individual and teamwork and remote exchange with participants in Guatemala (via ZOOM, MIRO)

    Costs:
    CHF 1550.– (plus CHF 200-– application fee)

    (subject to change)

  • Content

    The course contains classes and interactive sessions with lecturers from MIT D-Lab, ZHdK lecturers and experts from the Guatemalan organization Link4, who will guide the remote co-creation with Mayan community members.

    Participants will deepen their profiles as strategic designers with intercultural sensitivity, they will learn strategies for community building, practise design for social innovation, learn and deepen intercultural competencies, learn the concepts of innovation ecosystems, systems-innovation, entrepreneurship and inclusive business strategies.

    Thematic inputs (held in English)

    • Design Cultures Guatemala, Co-Creation Mindsets & Methods, Design Tools, Enabling and inclusion of community members and facilitation of co-creation sessions (Link4 and MIT D-Lab Consultants)
    • Design for Social Innovation, Intercultural Competencies and Empathy Building, Communication Techniques and Active Listening, Entrepreneurship and Business Modelling (ZHdK)
    • Respectful Information Gathering, Innovation Ecosystems, Inclusive Systems-Innovation Processes (MIT D-Lab)
    • Power Dynamics and Facilitation Skills (MIT D-Lab)
    • Inclusive Economies (MIT D-Lab)

  • Learning goals

    • Participants will learn creative strategies for participatory collaboration across cultures, and methods and tools to enable collaborative creation.
    • They will strengthen their intercultural competencies with verbal and non-verbal communication, practice systems thinking and systems design.
    • The thematic challenge of resilience post COVID-19 and business development in a vulnerable society allows students to apply design for entrepreneurship and explore how design can be a driver for change.

  • Target group

    This offer is for people from all sectors who want to strengthen their skills in design, creative thinking, problem solving, and intercultural competencies, for professionals who want to learn co-creation approaches and methods and apply their know-how on a real challenge.

  • Preparation

    In preparation participants will receive preread material and videos. 

  • Details

    Schedule and detailed program follows

    The Digital Study Trip – A Co-Creative Design Project with a Mayan Community in Guatemala module is part of the MAS Strategic Design Portfolio and can be credited upon request (ECTS).

  • Costs

    CHF 1550.– (plus CHF 200.– application fee)