Play with Impact
May 2011 DwD was hosted by Zahra Ebrahim of the architecture and design think tank, archiTEXT.
THE WORKSHOP
“Play”….it’s the four-letter word that petrifies the establishment. It’s messy, the process is different every time – as is the outcome – and yet, it remains the tool that best produces honest, creative, innovative, and unique results. This workshop will explore the process of using play to uncover possible solutions to issues challenging corporations, governments, and not-for-profits.Participants will be encouraged to explore the following principles in order to fully engage with the possibilities that using play to create impact can uncover
1. Play is not easy.2. Play is difficult.3. Play is necessary.4. Play is not frivolous.
Zahra is the Principal, Partner, and Founder of the architecture and design think tank, archiTEXT. Zahra has spent the last two years as Innovator in Residence at Canada’s National Design Museum, the Design Exchange. Ebrahim brings together diverse groups to tackle the intersections of architecture and design with social change, the environment, politics, economics, equality, health, and pop culture. Using various methods ranging from curation to public engagement to conceptual art, she engages a broad spectrum of the public across the country in design discourse.