Designing Community Solutions Spring 2026

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
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Meet your instructors
  FREE PREVIEW
3. Before we begin...
4. The Remerge Playbook
5. Syllabus
1. Joining Lives: Introduction and Chapter One
2. Intro to Course and Remerge (1/13/2026)
3. Theology of Sociality and Reconciliation (1/15/2026)
4. Jan 15: Joining Lives Reflection
1. Reading: Sidewalks/Happy City
2. Spiritual Practices (1/20/2026)
3. Intro to Built Environment & Models of Community Development (1/22/2026)
1. Remerge Model of Human Centered Design & Lament and Laud (1/27/2026)
2. Listening and Stakeholder Map
3. Jan 29: Lament and Laud
4. Reading: Creative Confidence
1. Jan 27: Sidewalks in the Kingdom
2. Review Listening Progress and Stakeholder Map
3. Feb 3: Listening Log Part 1
4. Feb 5: Stakeholder Map
1. Listening Report Back
2. Feb 10: Listening Log Part 2
3. System Mapping
4. Feb 12: Creative Confidence Reflection
1. Data Organizing: Dump, Themes, Insights, Questions, Choosing
2. Data Organizing: Dump, Themes, Insights, Questions, Choosing
3. Feb 19: Choice/Design Question
1. Brainstorming
2. Brainstorming and Choosing a Path
3. Feb 26: Brainstorming Notes
1. Prototyping
2. Prototyping Plan
3. Build and Test the Prototype
1. Prototype: First Draft
2. Mar 17: Prototype: First Draft
3. Mar 19: Prototype Feedback Log
1. Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
2. Prototype: Second Draft
3. Mar 24: Prototype: Second Draft
4. Logic Model
5. Logic Model Narrative
1. Funding and Finance
2. Mar 31: Logic Model
3. Business Model Canvas
4. Business Model Canvas - Remerge Version
1. Fundamentals of Presentations
2. Apr 7: Business Model Canvas
3. Review Presentation: First Draft Part 1
4. Apr 9: The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs Reflection
5. Apr 9: Final Presentation: Draft 1
1. Review Presentation: First Draft Part 2
2. Grant Writing
1. Review Presentation: Second Draft Part 1
2. Apr 21: Final Presentation: Second Draft
3. Review Presentation: Second Draft Part 2
1. Review of the Theology
2. Final Presentation
3. Apr 30: Final Presentation
1. May 8: Grant Proposal
2. May 8: Feedback

About this course

$1,500.00
Online, Synchronous

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Designing Community Solutions Spring 2026

Course curriculum

Welcome to Designing Community Solutions!

Week 1 (1/12 - 1/18)

Week 2 (1/19 - 1/25)

Week 3 (1/26 - 2/1)

Week 4 (2/2 - 2/8)

Week 5 (2/9 - 2/15)

Week 6 (2/16 - 2/22)

Week 7 (2/23 - 3/1)

Week 8 (3/2 - 3/8)

Week 9 (3/16 - 3/22)

Week 10 (3/23 - 3/29)

Week 11 (3/30 - 4/5)

Week 12 (4/6 - 4/12)

Week 13 (4/13 - 4/19)

Week 14 (4/20 - 4/26)

Week 15 (4/27 - 5/3)

Finals Week (5/4 - 5/8)

About this course