Online Live Course: Participatory Video for Design Thinking

Brand new course!

In this course, you will learn to adapt Design Thinking methods to the context of community-led change to create better social innovations, that have community insights and solutions at their heart. Participatory Video for Design Thinking is a new approach that is grounded in community participation.

InsightShare’s Director, Chris Lunch, developed the Participatory Video for Design Thinking methodology, while a Fellow at the d.school Paris between 2017 and 2019, through numerous projects and collaborations with experts in the field. He will be leading this online course throughout.

“We learnt how to conduct a planning process and reach results that are totally coherent with the ideas of this new government and with the needs of the community.”

– Narino government, Centre for Social Innovation, Colombia

Dates

The next online course will include 90-minute sessions on the following dates: 7th, 9th, 14th, 16th and 21st of June 2022 from 4.00 to 5:30 PM (UK time).

If you’re looking for a private group online training and you are two participants or more we can set one up at a time and date that suits you, please contact us at trainings@insightshare.org

Course Price

£800 includes five live sessions:

• 4 x 90-minute sessions on Participatory Video and Design Thinking Methodologies, with self-study assignments between sessions.
• One 90-minute session of group coaching, exploring each participant intended or potential projects.
• Personalised resources will also be provided.

One-on-one coaching sessions are also available for £200 per 90-minute session. These sessions are tailored to meet your needs, whether helping you start a project or supporting you as you deliver your project.

Special Offers

• Book with a friend or colleague and receive a 15% discount on both bookings.
• Are you a group of 3 or more students? Please contact us at trainings@insightshare.org to get a special discount!
• Purchase 2 one-to-one coaching sessions with your course booking and get two sessions for the cost of one. The total price of this package is £1000 (1 place on course + 2 coaching sessions).

Book your place

To reserve your place on the course, please fill in this reservation form.

Please note that places are not confirmed until full payment has been received.

Places are reserved on a first-come-first-served basis.

What is Design Thinking?

Design Thinking is a creative approach to problem-solving, that begins with the people you are designing for and ends with new solutions tailor-made to suit their needs. Design Thinking processes begin with building deep understanding and empathy with those that will ultimately be part of any new social project, service or product that is developed. This helps the process go beyond generating ‘good ideas’, to creating a movement towards impact. When we work with communities to contextualise prototypes and test them, the movement towards impact is enhanced. Participatory Video provides a unique opportunity to deepen insights and local engagement from beginning to end.

What is Participatory Video?

Participatory Video is an accessible way to bring people together to explore shared issues and voice their perspectives. It is a powerful platform to engage and mobilise traditionally underrepresented and underserved groups.

The methodology is designed to empower participants to engage in learning activities and voice their stories and opinions whilst gaining confidence in their abilities to acquire new skills, improve existing knowledge and practices, and think creatively towards innovative problem-solving. 

– Bernie Roth, Academic Director, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford

Who is it for?

Our online course and coaching service aim to support those interested in social innovation and community development:

• Individuals
• Organizations
• Teachers
• Designers 
• Consultants

What will you learn?

This course will explore both Design Thinking and Participatory Video methodologies and look at how they can be combined. You will learn:

• The different stages of the Design Thinking process
• How to adapt the Design Thinking process to work sensitively with marginalised groups
• Local ownership of ‘ethnographic’ research phases
• The power of storytelling and the use of visual facilitation to promote community engagement and appropriation of the process
• How to build sustainability and long-term infrastructures for community-led change
• A suite of participatory tools and exercises that can be applied to prototypes and implementation
• The different stages of the Participatory Video process
• How to experiment with field exercises and tools
• Lessons through case studies

About us

As leading practitioners in the field of Participatory Video, we have dedicated ourselves to delivering transformational projects with some of the world’s most marginalised communities.  We have directly facilitated hundreds of projects in over sixty countries, working with diverse peoples to address a wide variety of issues. Founded in 1999, our organisation is committed to improving and shaping the use of Participatory Video in all its forms and building a grassroots movement of practice to sustain its role as a powerful community engagement tool. To find out more about the application of Participatory Video to Design Thinking, please explore these resources:

• Article: How to make an impact: Design Thinking meets Participatory Video
• Article: Trump’s disinfectant comments hold the secret to his dubious brilliance
• Video: SDG Action Talk: citizen as designer, expert and innovator

For More Information

For more information about the course or our work:

Email: trainings@insightshare.org or call us: +44 (0)1865 403127

To know more about us and our work over the last 20 years, visit our Website

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