Design as Learning - Learning as Experience

The Event
Join us for a deep dive into Learning Experience Design with Alexandre Enkerli.

We live and work in different domains, from interaction design to user research. Though we may collaborate to build solutions for shared problems, we don’t always share the same experiences. During this CapCHI session, Alex outlines how we can learn from one another as experts in a variety of contexts, while addressing some potential controversies along the way. Is “Design Thinking” a useful framing? What does work in Human-Computer Interaction have in common with Systems Design and with User Experience Writing?

As a practice domain situated between Instructional Design and User Experience Design, Learning Experience Design (LXD) will serve as a context for this exploration. Though products and solutions do come out of LXD, the field’s focus is on learning as a complex experience. As a group, we will try to develop a shared understanding of design as a learning experience.

About Alexandre Enkerli
An ethnographer by training, Alex has had 35 jobs so far - from user research to learning experience design and from participatory-action research to university teaching. His field-based approach to human-centred design privileges broad collaboration and systems thinking. A significant part of Alex's work relates to technological appropriation: how people make tools their own and adapt technologies to be appropriate in their contexts.

Born and raised in Tiohtiá:ke, on Kanien’kehá:ka land, Alex now lives and works near the Kichi Sibi river, on unceded traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg people. We live through diverse experiences which ground our knowledge.

As a specialist in open learning, Alex aims to make himself dispensable.

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About The Venue
Impact Hub Ottawa is situated on the 7th floor of a high-rise building and at 7pm the entry doors on the ground floor/street level lock automatically. If you arrive late, please send a message to +1-613-655-2238 for entry.

Water, tea and coffee are provided for free, but food will not be available. You are welcome to bring your own snack. No alcoholic beverages please. If you like to head out for a drink afterwards, there are various options near by to do so.

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Our Sponsors
We are extremely grateful to these organizations for their generous support of CapCHI and the local design, HCI and UX community.

Design Centered Co.
We use design to enable organizations deliver value by focusing on opportunities that align with their purpose, understand the people they aim to serve, and define processes that are sustainable and impact focused.

DFFRNT
We’re an exceptional team of highly experienced behavioural researchers and design strategists. We apply a fundamental understanding of human behaviour, strategic design and human-computer interaction to deliver product and service design value.

Jumping Elephants
A full-service, consulting group based in Ottawa and specializing in user-centred solutions design and business process management for the public and private sector.

Nokia
At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together. We put the world’s people, machines, and devices in sync to create a more sustainable, productive, and accessible future.