One of the best skills a designer can have is the systemic thinking, knowing that everything is connected, that everything is about scenarios, stories, people and their lives. In this sense, sometimes solutions doesn’t have to be necessarily an object but rather a whole strategy to promote change in behavior, thinking and doing.
The next projects are academic samples of design implemented from a strategic approach or as “design thinking” rather than just “industrial” or “graphic” design.
Project “Re-Learning”
This project was based in Bogota, Colombia. The idea was to create a system of volunteers across the city of Bogota to help high school students at risk of dropping out in order to improve the rates of high school graduation among the people in lower economic strata. Below you can see the document in order to see details. In this case this document is presented as a pitch to attract not only donors but also volunteers.
Project “Recicla”
Also based in Bogota, this project was looking to create a strategy to promote recycling inside homes of the city in a time when it wasn’t so popular. Also wanted to address different issues related with the recycling process in the streets and how they could be solve from home in a individual approach.
The project also proposes the design of a special trashcan designed to separate waste but also to look attractive, this in order to place recycling as something hip rather than a mere obligation.