Roll up your sleeves for our Chicago Ideas Week Labs
Join Doblin and The Chicago Community Trust for an interactive workshop to explore and activate ideas for improving our communities.
On Thursday, October 16, Doblin will host two interactive labs that will jumpstart The Chicago Community Trust’s “collaboratories” initiative to activate ideas for improving Chicago’s communities. Not only will you be introduced to Doblin’s systematic, design-led approach to innovation, you’ll be able to contribute to a real project that will continue on long after Chicago Ideas Week comes to a close.
At these Chicago Ideas Week Labs, you will collaborate with a team of Doblin designers, strategists, and social scientists as well as The Chicago Community Trust, On the Table 2014 idea contributors, and other Chicago Ideas Week participants to develop programmatic initiatives using Doblin’s custom tools and protocols. We will run two Labs, engaging on the following On the Table 2014 topics:
Lab #1: The GenG Project | The Generation Green Project connects youth to opportunities within the growing fields of sustainability and the green industry.
Event Info: 10.16.14 | 9:30 – 11:30 am | Purchase Ticket(s)
Lab #2: Sister Neighborhoods | Organizing and facilitating the exchange of cultural awareness and barrier breaking activities across communities in the city and suburbs.
Event Info: 10.16.14 | 1:30 – 3:30 pm | Purchase Ticket(s)
Doblin is one of four design and innovation practices supporting the Trust’s collaboratories initiative during Chicago Ideas Week. The six ideas being explored during Chicago Ideas Week originated from the Trust’s On the Table initiative in May that brought together more than 11,500 participants for mealtime conversations at nearly 1,100 tables throughout Chicagoland. Discussions focused on how to collaboratively build and maintain strong, safe and dynamic communities and generated nearly 1,000 ideas that the Trust and its advisors narrowed down to six ideas for further exploration.
After Chicago Ideas Week, the Trust’s six idea working groups will continue to refine and develop more sustainable plans. In April 2015, each of the Trust’s working groups will have the opportunity to pitch their proposals to a panel of potential investors and influencers in the hopes of securing support for the implementation of their ideas moving forward.
To be a part of this exciting initiative, purchase tickets on the Chicago Ideas Week website.
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About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week (CIW) is a 501(c)(3) organization. CIW is a premier annual gathering of global thought leaders created to drive ideas into actionable results. It is a platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers and interested citizens from across Chicago, the greater Midwest and the world. Its goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a Community of Curiosity. For more information, please visit www.chicagoideas.com and follow Chicago Ideas on Facebook and Twitter via @chicagoideas.
About The Chicago Community Trust
The Chicago Community Trust, is the Chicago region’s community foundation, partners with donors to leverage their philanthropy in ways that transform lives and communities. The Trust, together with its donors, granted more than $161 million in 2013 to nonprofits working to develop new audiences to sustain the region’s vibrant arts organizations, protect the human services safety net for those hardest hit by the recession, stem the devastating effects of foreclosures on our neighborhoods, elevate teaching to meet world-class standards and improve conditions for healthy and active lifestyles. By connecting the generosity of donors with the needs of the community, the Trust ensures that our region thrives today and for future generations. www.cct.org
