{"id":216,"date":"2013-06-24T23:39:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T23:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/isaacgilman\/?p=216"},"modified":"2013-06-24T23:39:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T23:39:23","slug":"project-break-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/project-break-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Break Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quickly: Project Breaker<\/a> is a 14 day training course sponsored by the Standford d school<\/a> to teach Design Thinking<\/a> to young adults (18-24)\u00a0in Detroit, NYC, and online around the world. \u00a0Design Thinking<\/a> is a problem solving method that incorporates design practices into innovative solutions. \u00a0The focus of the training is on The Future of Stuff. \u00a0If you have future questions, let me know.<\/p>\n

Each day I am writing a reflection of the day. \u00a0This is my notes, opinions, ideas etc.<\/p>\n

Enjoy<\/p>\n

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Day 1 (6\/19) Reflections:<\/p>\n

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On the first day we all gathered at our studio space, which is our home for the next fourteen days.\u00a0 There are seven breakers (including myself) and most of us are from Detroit or the surrounding area.\u00a0 We all have very diverse backgrounds, ranging from architecture, urban planning to graphic designer and fine arts.<\/p>\n

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After introductions we were introduced to Design Thinking through a wallet exercise.\u00a0 Our task: design the ideal wallet.\u00a0 We spent a few minutes doing that, but ultimately it was not as easy as it seemed.\u00a0 We had little motivation to design an ideal wallet, and we had no inspiration to draw from.\u00a0 After we designed our wallet, we then reframed the project, by partnering with someone to make them their ideal wallet.\u00a0 We accomplished this through interview\u2019s to collect findings and insights, which helped us lead to our POV (one of the most critical components but also most difficult).\u00a0 The POV helped us to frame the issue and how we can find a solution.\u00a0 We moved to sketching five more solutions based on the interview insights and POV we formed.\u00a0 We looked for more feedback on our initial solutions to finally come up with our final solution to prototype. We used a number of household craft supplies (tape, construction paper, glue, scissors, pipe cleaners etc.) to create our prototypes.<\/p>\n

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I made an iPhone case wallet for my partner because he liked to carry as little on him as possible.\u00a0 The case had three slots on the back to hold money and a few cards.\u00a0 Additionally the holder had a flap on it to keep the valuables out of plane sight.\u00a0 This idea came to my attention because of the interview process. My partner said he lets people borrow his phone all the time to make calls, and if there were valuables on the back he would be hesitant to have people use his phone.\u00a0 Furthermore, there would be a cut out for the camera portion so the case can support all the phone functions while staying on.<\/p>\n

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After the exercise we broke up for a little bit to change and relax before heading to Shinola\u2019s Office for the Breaker kickoff party.\u00a0 The party was nice and relaxing.\u00a0 Shinola is an amazing space located in Midotwn\/New Center. (depends who you are talking to).\u00a0 It houses the bike and watch assembly portions of the business.\u00a0 There we heard from two very exciting people, Veronika Scott of the Empowerment Plan and the head of Shinola\u2019s marketing. In addition, we had the opportunity to meet some of our professional development colleagues and other guests.\u00a0 It was a fun night with lots of excitement for one day.<\/p>\n

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Quickly: Project Breaker is a 14 day training course sponsored by the Standford d school to teach Design Thinking to young adults (18-24)\u00a0in Detroit, NYC, and online around the world. \u00a0Design Thinking is a problem solving method that incorporates design practices into innovative solutions. \u00a0The focus of the training is on The Future of Stuff. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[158,159,63,160,140,161,163,141],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-breaker","tag-makerbreaker","tag-design-thinking","tag-detroit","tag-innovation","tag-livedetroit","tag-makers","tag-project-breaker","tag-workdetroit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}