Host Your Own (Design) Jam Session

Calling all innovators, educators, designers, manufacturers, and business coaches!

Host Your Own Jam Session!

Design Jams bring together makers, entrepreneurs, manufacturers, educators, students, professional designers, and end users to brainstorm and prototype new ideas. Learn how this approach to product development leads to better business outcomes and gain the skills and resources needed to teach this method to your clients, teams and students.

Together with Mechanism, a national coalition creating production ecosystems that increase community resilience, vitality, and well-being, Design Core is offering 2 interactive sessions of a virtual human-centered design and innovation workshop for anyone teaching, learning or practicing creative problem-solving in product development.

Who should attend? Educators and design leaders of all kinds, including:

• High school, college and university faculty
• After school and young adult program leaders
• Designers, makers, manufacturers, technical service providers, and incubators
• Anyone teaching product design and development or creating innovation teams

Why attend?

• Learn to develop empathetic, creative talent that is prepared to meet today’s industry challenges with creative problem solving and inclusive design skills
• Practice new ways to teach design, manufacturing and entrepreneurship by bringing diverse perspectives together to do problem finding and problem solving.
• Foster mutual respect for the diverse experiences of all individuals and groups among your students, clients and teams
• Learn how to apply and use the Design Jam process to create collaborative teams.
• Takeaway a complete toolkit for leading your own user-centered Design Jams.
  
  

Learn more about Design Core Detroit's Annual Design Jam here. This format is adaptable to any theme or working group.