minds & makers

21/03/2023

Kölner:innen aufgepasst – Ob digitale Verwaltung, gemeinwohlorientierte Stadtentwicklung, innovative Umwelt oder vernetzte Mobilität: un:box cologne ist die Chance, deine Idee für eine lebenswerte, inklusive, digitale, nachhaltige Stadt umzusetzen – oder gemeinsam mit anderen Interessierten ganz neue Denkansätze zu entwickeln. Diese können mit bis zu 50.000€ gefördert werden. Mit un:box cologne engagiert sich die Stadt Köln für digitale Inklusion, Vielfalt, Nachhaltigkeit und Innovation.

Neugierig? Kommt am 25.03.2023 zu unserem un:boxing Camp und tretet in Austausch mit anderen engagierten Personen aus Stadtgemeinschaft und Verwaltung. In dem kollaborativen 4-stündigen Camp wollen wir zusammen mit euch an euren Ideen arbeiten und mithilfe von ein paar Kreativformaten auch ganz neue Lösungsansätze ersinnen. Mehr Infos findet ihr auf der un:box cologne Website oder ihr besucht das un:box Forum am Vortag (24.03.) um 15 Uhr im VHS-Forum im Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum.

un:boxing Camp
Wann: Samstag, 25. März 2023, 14 -18 Uhr
Wo: ZukunftsLabor der Stadt Köln, Ludwigstraße 8, 50667 Köln

Mehr Infos zu unbox:cologne:
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16/01/2023

Liebe Innovationsbegeisterte Menschen, wir suchen Leute um gemeinsame Sache zu machen 🚀

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09/10/2020

This coming tuesday (13th) our Martin is guest in the Make Meaningful Work Show (free online discussion) to talk about "A Caring and Meaningful Culture at Work". Together with our Reach Network partners Lekshmy Parameswaran of The Care Lab, Bas Raijmakers of STBY Design Research for Service Innovation and Daniel Szuc of Make Meaningful Work we touch upon these questions:

What are Care-ful and Care-less practices in teams and organisations?

How to begin conversations around care in your team?

How to use Human Centred Design to create more caring practices?

Come and join our conversation!

A Caring and Meaningful Culture at Work (with STBY, The Care Lab, Minds&Makers and Make Meaningful Work)

06/10/2020

In September our REACH Network hosted a live event on "A Caring and Meaningful Culture at Work“ to give a first glimpse into our corresponding online Masterclass on This is Doing on 11th of november. You can find more information about the course here:
https://www.thisisdoing.com/product/creating-caring-and-meaningful-organisational-cultures-november

If you are interested in the topic you can view the record of the session on our Reach Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHXFKN3jO2Y

Lekshmy Parameswaran of The Care Lab, Daniel Szuc of Make Meaningful Work and Martin Beyerle from us shared first best practices and reflections in the session hosted by Bas Raijmakers of STBY. More to come next week…!

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28/08/2020

The COVID-19 crisis shows us the importance of care in our society and created new opportunities to appreciate new types of care firsthand in our own professional and personal communities. Do you wonder how to move forward from here? Are you interested in how to use these experiences with care and solidarity in your projects and organizational culture? Then check out the online course "Creating Caring and Meaningful Organizational Cultures“ we run with our partners from the Reach Network Bas Raijmakers (STBY), Daniel Szuc (Make Meaningful Work), Lekshmy Parameswaran (The Care Lab) on This is Doing (www.thisisdoing.com) from 30th of september on.

You can also just join our free online discussion around the topic on september 3rd. Please register below.

More about the course:
The course will help us to understand new kinds of care that address urgent issues that we face today. By sharing stories of care that every participant and the trainers bring to the course, we are going to determine these new care practises. Together we will define how to inject these new care practises in your current projects and identify ways of stimulating a caring and meaningful culture in your organisation.

A Caring and Meaningful Culture at Work (with STBY, The Care Lab, Minds&Makers and Make Meaningful Work)

08/07/2020

How do we think about care today? Together with our REACH partners we designed a course on This is Doing
to help you determine new care practices and bring them into your current projects and your organisation.

Many organisations have lost the ability to truly care for their employees, their customers, their stakeholders and the planet. This has happened in a wide variety of organisations, even care organisations. The Industrialisation of work processes, to be more efficient and productive, has driven out the space for compassion and care. The COVID-19 crisis also shows us the importance of care in our society and created new opportunities to appreciate new types of care firsthand in our own professional and personal communities.

This course will help you to understand new kinds of care that address urgent issues that we face today in our societies, from the obvious like elderly care to the care that should be much more obvious, for our communities and the planet.

Read on here: https://tinyurl.com/yamcgoby

Together with our international design research network REACH we are proud to be an active partner in the new platform This is Doing. Anyone interested in learning more about , and will find exciting opportunities here. This is Doing not only offers online courses, but also and mentoring for personal professional development. Over 10 years in the global design and innovation industry brought us all together.

Check out the 4 state of the art courses by REACH partners:
• Deep Dive into Design Research (by STBY and Quicksand)
• From ‘Human Centred Design’ to ‘Life Centred Design’ (by STBY, Quicksand, DelaO Design Studio, Antropologerne)
• Creating Caring and Meaningful Organisational Cultures (by STBY, Apogee, The Care Lab, minds & makers)
• Using HCD to build community resilience in times of adversity (by STBY, Matchboxology, Big Human, DelaO Design Studio)

https://www.thisisdoing.com/

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06/07/2020

Last week we kicked-off the with the ada team in a big virtual event. It’s super exciting to be part of this adventure as lead-coaches supporting 450 fellows from 18 partner organizations such as the German Federal Government, Deutsche Telekom and Allianz on their learning journey to become digital pioneers.

The is a state-of-the-art, digital 360-degree learning program run by ada - the platform for digital life and the economy of the future from Handelsblatt GmbH. In a 12 month learning experience the fellows
• get inspiration and information to understand the most important future technologies
• transfer the relevant insights to their organization
• learn to apply innovative working methods
• build a up a cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary network of doers and thinkers
• understand what drives them to change and broadens their horizon

We are proud be partner up for the program and support the interdisciplinary fellow teams as lead-coaches with their projects to develop novel solutions for challenges within their organizations and to initiate cultural change. In the next 6 month the fellow teams will go through an agile and user-centered development process and experiment with different agile approaches such as , and . In the 2nd half of the fellowship they will transfer their learnings and initiate change within their organizations and implement the developed solutions. The fellows benefit from different training and coaching formats such as video coachings, remote co-creation workshops and an online platform with interactive tools and inspirational material.

Check out the fellowship program here:
https://join-ada.com/fellowship/about

We are thrilled to be part of this vibrant program and community!

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05/05/2020

LIEBE FREUND*INNEN,

wir starten jetzt auch mal einen Newsletter, um noch besser spannende und nützliche Informationen rund um die Themen Service Design und Soziale Innovation verbreiten zu können.
Im Standanzeiger teilen wir in unregelmäßigen Abständen, was uns und unser Netzwerk bewegt, welche Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse wir in unserer Arbeit sammeln und welche Aktivitäten und Events wir planen.

Wir hoffen, dass der ein oder andere Funke überspringt - in der ersten Ausgabe geht es um das Thema "Remote Testing" und wie wir in Zeiten der physischen Distanz weiterhin im wertvollen Austausch mit Nutzer*innen bleiben können.
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Wenn Ihr auch in Zukunft ein bisschen mehr von uns hören möchtet, geht es hier lang zur Anmeldung
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Bleibt gesund und munter und Zuhause!

12/06/2019

Wow…Nach dieser großartigen Expedition sind wir noch immer (und jetzt erst recht) im absoluten Reisefieber: Wir möchten uns allerherzlichst bei allen Teilnehmer*innen unserer Lernreise zum Service Design Day 2019 bedanken – für diese tolle, offene Atmosphäre, für die vielen erkenntnisreichen und inspirierenden Gespräche und für die rege, engagierte Teilnahme. Lasst uns an diese tolle Erfahrung anknüpfen, weiterhin in Austausch bleiben und gemeinsam Innovationen im sozialen und öffentlichen Sektor vorantreiben.
Nochmals tausend Dank an alle Lernstationen: PIKSL Labor Düsseldorf, WayGuard, Hehlerei, Diakonie Michaelshoven, Zukunftslabor und Zukunftswerkstatt Köln – unsere Stadt, Forschungsschwerpunkt DiTeS (TH Köln), Bathildisheim e.V. und an das Service Design Network und Köln International School of Design der TH Köln, insbesondere an Prof. Birgit Mager und Lina Mebus für die tolle Zusammenarbeit!

30/04/2019

Die Buzzwords „Social Innovation” und „Digital Transformation” hört man an jeder Ecke, aber wie sieht das Ganze in der Realität aus? Wie kann man die vielfältigen Herausforderungen meistern und tatsächlich Wirkung entfalten?

Um Antworten zu finden, begibt sich das minds & makers Team gemeinsam mit dem Service Design Network und der Köln International School of Design der TH Köln auf eine spannende Expedition durch die Kölner Sozial-Landschaft und freut sich über wissbegierige Mitreisende.

Die genaue Reiseroute gibt es hier:
http://www.minds-makers.com/sdd-lernreise.pdf

Für Tickets bitte hier entlang:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lernreise-service-design-in-sozialen-diensten-tickets-59524607704