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Activity title: Together we grow!

The participants will try to identify and analyze problems and explore
Objectives and potential solutions using design thinking.
Learning The procedure of design thinking has five main steps: 1) Empathize, 2)
Outcome
Define, 3) Ideate, 4) Prototype, and 5) Test.
Preparation & Papers (see Annex for the template), pens and post-it notes
Materials
Recommended
Time 60 minutes
Imagine that you are at the “La Tabacalera” and every participant is a
member of the same group and they want to be organized to solve a
problem.
Ask participants to create small teams of 3-4 persons and ask them to
think about a social problem or a professional situation that needs
improvement. They can find something that is important or interesting to
everyone of the team. You can also ask them if they have similar or
different strengths as a group that emphasizes the value of diversity and
complementarity to effective collective action. The groups can be flexible
as participants can change groups if something expresses them more.
Give each group a piece of paper (see Annex for the template), pens and
post-it notes to note their decision.
Try to explain the basic steps of the design thinking process. Then, create
small steps of the procedure and every time participants are asked to
Instructions
write down their thoughts:
• Ask from all groups to brainstorm solutions and encourage them
to find as many alternatives as they can.
• Ask them also to consider potential stakeholders in relation to the
problem and how they are influenced.
• Ask them to consider how communities, friends, family and other
networks could help them in implementing the solutions that they
have proposed, and how they can be supported by them.
• Ask them to consider if collective action has a key role to play in
addressing a solution to the problem and if it could be a pathway
for a positive social change.
After having agreed to what procedure they should follow to solve their
problem, ask them to share it with the others. If groups have similar
problems and similar solutions, they can create a bigger group altogether,
if they want to, emphasizing the idea of a collaborative decision-making
activity and support.

Project 2019-1-BG01-KA204_062299
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