Design Thinking
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A creative way to challenge students to develop
solutions through a habitual process that
encourages asking acute questions and
building from their mistakes.
What am I asking my students to do?
Ask Questions Build
Find Inspiration Accept feedback
Know that mistakes/failures
Research are something to learn from
Find Meaning
Evolve
Develop Ideas Move forward
Refine Be a continuous learner
A/R/Tographer
Big Idea Design Artists
Social
Environmental Community
Practice
Alan Sonfist
Born: Bronx, NY
Nationality: American
Known for: Substantial/Environmental Art
Series: Forest Landscapes
Time Landscape, 1978
New York City, NY
Thomas Hirschhorn
Born: May 16, 1957
Bern, Switzerland
Nationality: Swiss
Known for: Installation/Contemporary Art
Series: Temporary monuments dedicated to philosophers
Quality, No! Energy, Yes! - T. Hirschhorn
Gramsci Monument, 2013
Forest Houses, Bronx, NY
Courtesy Dia Art Foundation
Andrea Zittel
Born: 1965
Escondido, CA
Nationality: American
Known for: Installation/Contemporary Art
Social Practice
Series: Wagon Stations
How to live. What gives life meaning?
Wagon Stations
First Generation, 2004
Challenge
With the environmental challenges that are we are presented with today many animals are left
without homes and their communities destroyed. Your job is to design a new home and/or a
community that your animal would be comfortable established a life in.
Standards: VA:Cr1.2.6a
D is c o ve ry VA:Cn10.1.6a
Strategy: Idea Box
Seeking for understanding
Animal/Species
Environment
Housing
Insightful Questioning
What are the attributes to the animal?
What environment will this be in?
How can my design be beneficial to
my chosen animal/species?
o n Standards: VA:Cn10.1.6a
e r pre t a t i
Int VA:Cr2.3.6a
Strategy: SCAMPER
Interpreting
Meaning Deeper understanding
Narrative
How will I make this house work? A way to take the
information that was
Opportunities found and look at it in a
Invision different way.
Framing
What is being presented to me?
Standards: VA:Re.7.1.6a VA:Cr3.1.6a
Ideation VA:Re8.1.6a
Strategy: Ideatoons
Idea Generation Cards to draw designs
Side 1: draw Side 2: write
What design am I using to create the Organize
animals housing?
What materials am I going to utilize in
my creation?
Standards: VA:Cr2.1.6a
e ri m e n t
Exp VA:Cr2.2.6a
Strategy: Focused Exploration
Build It Work with materials
Teacher questioning
Work with materials Peer questioning
Put design together
Make tangible prototype
Standards: VA:Cr2.3.6a VA:Cr3.1.6a
E v o lut io n VA:Pr6.1.6a
Strategy: Visual Thinking Strategies
FeedBack
Receive fresh ideas
Discussion
Improvement
Take feedback and improve
Refine development
Looking to the Future
References
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