To prepare, have a think about any organizations on that web-page and any community problems you could address through engaging community in a media work. Please come with some thoughts!
What makes a community?
Who are the different stakeholders in a community?
What does every community need?
Prototyping is about bringing conceptual or theoretical ideas to life and exploring their real-world impact
Simple sketches or storyboards used to illustrate a proposed experiential solution, rough paper prototypes of digital interfaces, and even role-playing to act out a service offering an idea are examples of prototypes.
Pick a problem or challenge to address. For example, a design challenge can be something you’re currently working on or a hypothetical scenario.
Form a group of people who are directly impacted by the problem of focus for a quick ideation session.
Gather sticky notes or use a Padlet page, start the timer, and rapidly brainstorm ideas for how to creatively approach this problem. Do this individually. (Write/draw one idea per sticky note or padlet post)
• Then, collaborate with the group to categorize ideas. (It’s okay to have outliers.)
• Notice and discuss the approaches (and categories) that emerge. Example guiding questions: What were the commonly brainstormed trends or categories? What were the least common? Why?
• How did our backgrounds, expertises, and personal interests impact the type of ideas proposed?