DAY 28 W 4 DEC                                  AW V. 1.0, 073013

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DRY RUN & CRITIQUE OF PRESENTATION MATERIALS

“The best way to give good presentations is to test, iterate, and practice your presentations.”          

– Design Wisdom

DRIVING QUESTIONS:

1. Where is your project today?

2. What do others see in your project?

3. Where would you like your project to be?

4. What is your plan to getting there?

SCHEDULE

4:30-5:00pm: TEAM 1 discussion

5:00 – 5:30pm: TEAM 2 discussion

5:30 – 6:00pm: TEAM 3 discussion

6:00-6:10pm: break

6:10-7:20pm: Next assignment discussed. All general discussion about the course, student expectations, questions, concerns

7:20pm: CLASS ENDS

CRITIQUE OF PERSONA SCENARIO NARRATIVES FOR TEAM OPPORTUNITY

TEAM OPPORTUNITY PERSONA SCENARIOS pdf

When you think you have reached the limit of an idea, explore further.

—  Arnold Wasserman

You can’t create difference if you can’t imagine difference

—  Arnold Wasserman

Be Specific, not Generic! Connect the Dots!

—  Arnold Wasserman

FINAL PRESENTATION AGENDA

A. WASSERMAN INTRO ± 3 min.

TEAM LEARN ± 25 min. + Discussion

TEAM OPPORTUNITY ± 25 min. + Discussion

TEAM SHARE ± 25 min. + Discussion

P. SCUPELLI  CONCLUSION ± 5 min.

FINAL PRESENTATION INVITATION

FINAL DELIVERABLES SET

1. A WEB PRESENTATION of your LIFE2050PGH3.0 SCENARIOS. This is a top level summary with links to deeper detailed content, references, sources, etc. As a minimum, this presentation should include:

INTRODUCTORY SUMMARY & OUTLINE: in the form of a navigable menu

TOPSIGHT: A VISION STATEMENT: explaining why you selected your FOCUS DOMAIN (i.e.: LEARN, SHARE, OPPORTUNITY) and how it is salient for LIFE2050 in PGH3.0.

INSIGHT: EXPEDITIONARY TREK INSIGHTS: from observations and interviews in your neighborhood.

FARSIGHT: 2013 WEAK SIGNALS/FUTURE SIGNS: drawn from your exploration of myriad CMU and Pittsburgh city and regional initiatives, organizations, plans, programs, labs, centers, startups, accelerators, incubators, etc. – introduced to you all throughout this semester.

FORESIGHT:

– 2050 GLOBAL BENCHMARK GOALS:  relevant to your Focus Domain. These LONG HORIZON GOALS should be drawn from sources like WBCSD, IFTF, OECD, UN Millennial Goals, Green Denmark, NMC Horizon Reports, CSPC, GBN, FFF, IFF, Alternative Worlds Global Trends, The Singularity, etc., etc. (Go back and refresh your memory about all the references, especially from Days 2, 3 & 4).

– 2050 LOCAL BENCHMARK GOALS: for your LOCUS NEIGHBORHOOD – with special emphasis on those LOCAL BENCHMARK GOALS that map onto and help advance GLOBAL BENCHMARK GOALS.

– STRATEGIC PATHWAYS MAP: showing the FORCE OF CHANGE PATHWAYS leading decade by decade from WEAK SIGNALS/FUTURE SIGNS to your 2050 BENCHMARK GOALS

– FUTURE PERSONAS SCENARIOS: Your VISION SCENARIOS illustrating OPPORTUNITIES FOR LIFE2050 – narrated through the FIRST-PERSON EXPERIENCES of  your PERSONAS – these narratives illustrate your awareness of how 2013 WEAK SIGNALS/EARLY SIGNS could play out along STRATEGIC PATHWAYS OF CHANGE to achieve LOCAL BENCHMARK GOALS that in turn help advance GLOBAL BENCHMARK GOALS

2. A 20-30 MINUTE VERBAL & VISUAL PRESENTATION TO AN AUDIENCE

 

FINAL REFLECTIONS

Plan for the future because that’s where you are going to spend the rest of your life

— Mark Twain

When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.

— William Burroughs

The best way to predict the future is to invent it

— Alan Kay

The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed

— William Gibson

Innovation is not what innovators do –  it is what customers adopt

— Michael Schrage

Design…is the human capacity to shape and make our environments in ways that satisfy our needs and give meaning to our lives

— John Heskett

Design…gives tangible form to valuable ideas

— Arnold Wasserman 

Design… is not a job description…it is a way of looking at the world

— Arnold Wasserman

Design…is how we get from where we are to where we want to be

— Arnold Wasserman

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing                           existing situations into preferred ones

— Herbert A. Simon

Come, my friends,

‘T is not too late to seek a newer world…

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Live long and prosper!

— Spock