Design Thinking Peace Premiere Challenge
35 students from each of the Perspectives campuses gathered at the Perspectives Auburn Gresham campus on 8131 S. May St., on October 2, to engage in an all day “I Am for Peace Design Thinking” workshop to answer the following question: "If you were the mayor of Chicago, how would you use the 26 principles of A Disciplined life to create a more peaceful Chicago?"
The end goal was to select five teams to share their design prototype at the “I Am for Peace” world premiere on October 24th. For more information about the premiere and to purchase tickets, visit www.pcsedu.org/peacepremiere.
The design challenge was facilitated by Perspectives teachers. They helped the students work through the phases of design thinking: 1) Define; 2) Explore; 3) Reflect; 4) Imagine; 5) Play; and 6) Transform, to come up with solutions to the question reference above.
The students were divided into seven teams of five. Together they developed one idea and prepared it for a final presentation. To help them think about their ideas on reducing and ending violence in Chicago, the students met with a panel of community leaders dedicated to keeping Chicago safe, including Father Phelger, John Horan, Anton Seals, Cedric Whittaker, and Diana Chaney. Each panelist discussed their work to make Chicago a more peaceful city and answered questions from the students ranging from topics of the cost of keeping Chicago safe to addressing mental health issues.
From this initial workshop, five teams were selected to develop their design prototype even further and to prepare it for a final presentation at the world premiere of the “I Am for Peace” documentary film.
Photo credit: David Terry
Design Thinking Peace Premiere Challenge
35 students from each of the Perspectives campuses gathered at the Perspectives Auburn Gresham campus on 8131 S. May St., on October 2, to engage in an all day “I Am for Peace Design Thinking” workshop to answer the following question: "If you were the mayor of Chicago, how would you use the 26 principles of A Disciplined life to create a more peaceful Chicago?"
The end goal was to select five teams to share their design prototype at the “I Am for Peace” world premiere on October 24th. For more information about the premiere and to purchase tickets, visit www.pcsedu.org/peacepremiere.
The design challenge was facilitated by Perspectives teachers. They helped the students work through the phases of design thinking: 1) Define; 2) Explore; 3) Reflect; 4) Imagine; 5) Play; and 6) Transform, to come up with solutions to the question reference above.
The students were divided into seven teams of five. Together they developed one idea and prepared it for a final presentation. To help them think about their ideas on reducing and ending violence in Chicago, the students met with a panel of community leaders dedicated to keeping Chicago safe, including Father Phelger, John Horan, Anton Seals, Cedric Whittaker, and Diana Chaney. Each panelist discussed their work to make Chicago a more peaceful city and answered questions from the students ranging from topics of the cost of keeping Chicago safe to addressing mental health issues.
From this initial workshop, five teams were selected to develop their design prototype even further and to prepare it for a final presentation at the world premiere of the “I Am for Peace” documentary film.
Photo credit: David Terry