WHAT YOU WILL UNCOVER IN THIS COURSE

Extending beyond the techniques you need for effective, rapid and disruptive ideation, the course teaches iterative prototyping and testing, so you can define and evolve concepts into activations. You'll learn to translate ideas into outcomes through prototyping in a variety of forms and formats (such as sketch modeling, play testing, experience design, etc.) and will be challenged to think differently, embrace a state of creative flow, and develop the mental tools for building rapid impactful solutions. Whether you’re working on products, systems, or services, this course will refine your ideation skills and help you find a format that works for you in your creative production practices.

WHAT YOU WILL UNCOVER IN THIS COURSE

  • Discover how to push beyond preconceived mental capacity in order to generate more effective ideas, plus evaluate current ideas and prototypes for efficacy.

  • Catalyze idea evolution and synthesis from your reflexive thinking practice.

  • Leverage your knowledge of systems thinking to ideate creative solutions and develop prototypes for interventions.

  • Develop rapid prototyping and advanced ideation skills, as well as iterative testing and evaluation skills for idea evolution and synthesis.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

Available for this course

Certificates are issued by the UnSchool (using third party certifier Accredible.com) upon successful and demonstrable completion of all course elements. Accredible uses bank-level encryption and blockchain logging to ensure legitimacy and verification, and offers easy to share credentials that you can receive as a downloadable PDF, share on LinkedIn and other digital platforms. Accredible also allows you to control your own data via their credential portal, accessible for free when you receive any certificates or badges.

Dr. Leyla Acaroglu

Instructor Bio:

Sustainability provocateur, award-winning designer, 2016 UNEP Champion of the Earth, and creative changemaker pioneer, Dr. Leyla Acaroglu challenges people to think differently about how the world works. As the founder of the UnSchool and creator of the Disruptive Design Method, Leyla weaves together her skills as a designer, sociologist, and social entrepreneur to create highly immersive educative experiences. She is a renowned international expert on systems thinking and sustainability, running workshops around the world and designing activating experiences, gamified toolkits, and unique educational experiences that help equip people with the tools to intervene and change systems to make the status quo obsolete. Sought after for her unique approach to activating positive social change by design, Leyla's main-stage TED talk on sustainability has been viewed over a million times, and she is the author of several handbooks, as well as an op ed contributor for major publications like the New York Times.

Dr. Leyla Acaroglu

UnSchool Founder + Global Change Maker

COURSE CONTENT

  • 01

    Welcome

  • 02

    Part 1: Introduction to Ideation and Creativity

    • Watch: Ideation and Creativity

    • Read: Ideas and Ideation

    • Watch: Introduction to Ideation and Creativity

    • Watch: Design and Creativity

    • Read: Problem Solving Methods

    • Read: Flow State

    • Read: Enhancing Creativity

    • Activity: Creative Skillset Worksheets

    • Activity: Actioning Creative Change Worksheets

    • Knowledge Check: Ideation & Creativity

  • 03

    Part 2: Developing Divergent Thinking Practice

    • Read: Divergent & Convergent Thinking

    • Watch: Developing Divergent Thinking Practice

    • Read: Lateral Thinking

    • Read: Creativity Development Tools

    • Read: Understanding Learning styles

    • Knowledge Check: Divergent Thinking
  • 04

    Part 3: The 10 Golden Rules of Ideation

    • Read: Our 10 Golden Rules of Ideation

    • Watch: Golden Rules of Ideation

    • Watch: Cognitive Experience Design

    • Watch: Design Impactful Experiences

    • Activity: Group Domino Ideation

    • Activity: Rapid Ideation

    • Knowledge Check: Ideation Rules
  • 05

    Part 4: Prototyping

    • Read: Introduction to Prototyping

    • Watch: Prototyping

    • Read: Types of Prototyping

    • Read: Prototyping Techniques

    • Activity: Storyboarding Worksheet

    • Read: Playtesting

    • Read: MVP

    • Learning Action: Paper Sketch Model

    • Knowledge Check: Prototyping
  • 06

    Part 5: Ideation Practices and Creative Change Making

    • Read: Developing an Ideation to Action Practice

    • Watch: Ideation Practices and Creative Change Making

    • Read: The Systems View on Creativity

    • Knowledge Check: Ideation Practices and Creative Change Making
  • 07

    Conclusion

    • Tying It All Together

    • Additional Resources and Links

    • A Message From Leyla

  • 08

    Completion Certificate

    • Ideation & Prototyping Final Knowledge Check Quiz

    • Get your certificate of completion!

  • 09

    Next Steps

    • Continue Your Learning Journey!

WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT UNSCHOOL PROGRAMS

“I can explain it as, the moment you realize you're not just an individual in a community but a part of it, and most importantly you can be the one who enacts a positive change within it.”

Cecilia Fernan

“Dr. Leyla Acaroglu's Disruptive Design Workshop is brain-bending, fun, and high-velocity, going far beyond typical design thinking. It's exactly what is needed right now for solving complex environmental and social challenges (and they are all complex.) Leyla delivered a serious arsenal of tools and methods for creating the kinds of purpose-driven, disruptive products and experiences we all need to bring to life.”

Jeff Corkran

“Everything around us is designed for better or for worse, so I find learning new methods of looking at the systems, the ways in which design interplays with them, and the potential approaches we can take to design more social and sustainable interventions is empowering. I had a great time at the UnSchool workshop, bouncing ideas of other smart and engaged people.”

Anna Schlimn

IDEATION AND PROTOTYPING

GENERATE MORE CREATIVE IDEAS THROUGH

How do you go about translating your ideas into usable, real-world interventions that will have a significant impact? 

And how do you ensure those interventions are creative, unique, and can be practically applied to the problem that you are trying to solve? 

After all, even a well-designed intervention can meet unexpected roadblocks, so prototyping and testing are imperative. This class extends beyond the techniques you need for effective, rapid and disruptive ideation techniques into iterative prototyping and testing, in order to define and evolve concepts into activations. 

Through this session, you will immerse yourself into our 10 Golden Rules of Ideation in order to work through the neurological barriers that try to keep our brains from pushing out the best ideas. 

After you understand these rules, you also will learn how to break them – because let’s be honest, rules are made to be broken – especially when it comes to having a disruptive edge and breaking up the status quo! 

You’ll discover how to bank ideas and develop synthesizing opportunities to help you sort through and pull out the most effective ideas. 

This is also a session on how to activate other people's creativity and facilitate an ideation session with impact. You will discover how to rapidly test ways of translating ideas into outcomes through prototyping, in a variety of forms and formats (such as sketch modeling, play testing, experience design, etc.). 

You will be challenged to think differently, embrace a state of creative flow, and build the mental tools for building rapid impactful solutions. 

Whether you’re working on products, systems, or services, this knowledge session is an opportunity to refine your ideation practices and to find a format that works for you in your creative production practices. Let’s get started!  

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