FLIGHT PATH
Series of mini-workshops to explore the question: How can we design impactful solutions that benefit people, systems, and the planet?
Project details
For
Hosted by Design Interactive
Role
Lead organizer; with the collective hard work of our amazing team
Timeline
April 2025
In our world shaped by emerging technologies, environmental urgency, and increasingly wicked problems—what tools can we use to design solutions that are grounded in contextual awareness, anticipate unintended consequences, prioritize regeneration, and are co-created with the communities they’re meant to serve?
This was the question prominent in conversations with our leadership team during spring 2025. We decided this would be our central exploration in our semi-annual community event, where we aimed to provide thought-provoking tech & design education and conversation to the greater Madison, WI community.
Approach
We approached this event with a series of 8 mini-works on tools & frameworks that we saw as incredibly valuable in working towards this vision.
We wanted this event to be a playful way to contribute to a larger conversation around the future of creation.
Purpose
Co-creation
Foresight
Equity & Inclusion
Sustainability
Measurement
Adaptability
Passport System
We felt like a fun way for participants to navigate the different stations was to create custom “passports” where they would earn steps at each pillar they learned about. The "journey" to impact.
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