Workshop: How can we make Chicago a more human-centered city?

NOTICE: 25 attendees for tonight. Max 30. (RSVPs also via Eventbrite)

How can we make Chicago a more human-centered city?

For this meetup, you are invited to participate in a co-creation session as we work together to define what a human-centered and innovative city looks like. We utilitze a human-centered approach that involves empathy and focus on the involved stakeholders.

We will use the city of Chicago as a case study to practice design thinking methodologies, which you can then bring to designing novel products and services in your own industry. You bring your expertise of your community, industry, or neighborhood, we'll provide facilitated activities that help us understand how we can bring innovation back to your daily environment.

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Speaker - Marquis Davis, Founder & CEO Urban Array
Marquis is a serial social entrepreneur and founder of UrbanArray.org Driven to support and rebuild under-resourced communities and create sustainable triple bottom line social enterprises. Marquis is deeply involved in creating democratic and equal communities in Chicago.

Who should attend?
We welcome anyone who wants to learn how to create solutions that use a human-centered design approach to creating products and services. There are no prerequisites for this workshop. Beginners through Experts! Designers to accountants. What you need is the simple desire to learn to design using a human-centered approach.

Food, Drinks, and Materials Included
Let’s thank our host Microsoft Technology Center (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mtc/locations/chicago.aspx)

Workshop
As with all our Designing Think workshops, our speakers activate our thinking and act as our subject matter experts. We take their knowledge and then break into groups of 5-7 people. Each group will be led through the Design Thinking process to consider how they might redesign aspects of their Chicago community. At the end we will come back together and each group will present their ideas.

Workshop Schedule
5:30 Network & Lite Dinner
6:00 Welcome - Soren Spicknall, Microsoft Civic Tech Fellow
6:15 Speaker - Marquis Davis, CEO & Founder UrbanArray.org
6:45 Workshop
8:00 Presentations
8:30 Goodnight

• What to bring - yourself
You will be supplied with all the necessary materials for the workshop. Snacks and beverages are included.

• Important to know
Please be on time. The speakers start at 6PM. Food and Beverages start at 5:30PM