Designing Community Solutions

This is a cross-disciplinary course applying reconciliation thinking, human-centered design and systems strategies while working on a real problem, in a real community, to create a real solution.

Course curriculum

1. How to use this course
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2. Meet your instructors
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3. DCS Syllabus - Online
4. Before we begin...
5. The Remerge Playbook
1. Intro to Course and Syllabus
2. Joining Lives: Introduction and Chapter One
1. Course Recording: Theology of Sociality and Reconciliation
2. Sep 2: Joining Lives Reflection
3. Reading: Sidewalks/Happy City
4. Course Recording: Spiritual Health and Practices
1. Intro to the Built Environment and Models of Community Development
2. Sep 9: Sidewalks/Happy City Reflection
3. Reading: Creative Confidence
4. Remerge Model of Human Centered Design
1. Listening
2. Sep 16: Creative Confidence Reflection
3. Sep 16: Lament and Laud
1. Listening Report Back
2. Sep 25: Interviews
1. System Mapping
2. Data Organizing: Dump, Insights, Questions, Choosing
3. Oct 2: Reconciliation Map
4. Oct 2: Stakeholder Map
5. Systems Mapping Class Summary
6. Systems Mapping Class Outline
7. Systems Mapping Reader
1. Brainstorming
2. Oct 7: Choice/Design Question
3. Brainstorming Report Back
4. Oct 9: Brainstorming
1. Prototyping
1. Build and Test the Prototype
1. Prototyping Report Back
2. Oct 28: Prototype Feedback Log
3. Logic Model
4. Logic Model Narrative
1. Funding and Finance
2. Nov 4: Create a Logic Model
1. Prototyping Report Back Part 2
2. Project Feedback, Presentation Prep, and Selling the Prototypes
1. Project Feedback, Presentation Review
2. Nov 18: The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs Reflection
3. Grant Writing
1. Review
1. Final Presentations
2. Final Presentations
3. Dec 2: Final Presentation
1. Dec 11: Grant Proposal
2. Dec 11: Feedback

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$1,500.00
Online, Synchronous

Course begins August 25, 2025

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Designing Community Solutions

Course curriculum

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About this course

Course begins August 25, 2025