Connecting the Dots - Antonio Grillo

Question 1

What is design thinking good for?

Answer 1

Building trust and change organizations
Expanding boundaries of creativity
Overcoming Exclusion

Question 2

How can design thinking help building trust and change organizations?

Answer 2

Minimize the blind spots
Speed up the decision making process
Gain empathy
Gain systemic view
Foster innovation

“Every transformation is a story that worth to be shared”

Question 3

What is the greatest value of a designer?

Answer 3

Being able to find different ways to connect dots: new meanings, perspectives, connections, aspects

This can be done by changing your perspective since the client is stuck on a situation

Question 4

What are the ways design thinking can expand the boundaries of creativity?

Answer 4

Connecting dots by:

• Expanding horizons: observing everything from the top
• Adopting speculative design: pursue the preferable future

Question 5

How can we expand our horizons?

Answer 5

Long Now Foundation: fostering long-term thinking and responsibility (10k years)

Layers of change: Fashion, Commerce, Infrastructure, Governance, Culture, Nature

Change the lenses: Humans, Culture, Technology, Nature, Art

Framework Mood-board: Current market landscape, Comparable, Biomimesis, Sci-Fi, Art

Question 6

What is speculative design?

Answer 6

Imagine the future scenarios and select the preferred one.
The preferable scenario is the future we believe we want to achieve, both from business, societal and ethical side.

The mirror reflecting the present to the future and the future back to the present (weak-signals/enablers)

Untangling Alternatives Framework

Question 7

How can design thinking contribute to overcome exclusion?

Answer 7

Overcome exclusion: reduce physical, cognitive, culture and economic barriers.

Design thinking to

• Capitalize diversity
• Reduce the blind spot
• Enable communication
• Humanize complexity