This exhibition was designed as a marketing tool for INDEX: Design to Improve Life Education, a program which teaches educators tools and methods to enable students to be creative problem solvers.
The message of the exhibition is that the problems of the world are too large to leave only to designers and that everyone can lend a hand.
This exhibition is on display indefinitely at a resource library for educators in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Our main goal was to drive home the point that design thinking (or creative thinking) is for everyone, and our audience is educators who could be interested in using the Design to Improve Life Education model in their own practice.
My responsibilities included: design of A1 poster; print production and correspondence with printer; vinyl application; construction of grid boxes; cleaning of grid boxes; first draft design of 5 vinyl posters; compass cards (not included in final exhibition, as instruction on the Design to Improve Life Education process is not needed until educators partner with INDEX: Design to Improve Life); design and application of partner logo stickers (which became a requirement due to new partnerships after posters had already been printed); printing, placement, and hanging of large logo, hanging from the ceiling over the exhibit.
In collaboration, with one other person, I was given a budget of 200 Danish kroners, the equivalent of about $35, which we reserved entirely for printing. My partner and I salvaged four grid boxes with plexi-glass shelves, and a large board from the dumpster behind the design house. We cleaned each box with a power washer, and painted the board white to use as a stand for an A1 poster, which was the focal point of the exhibition.
We designed five 40x40cm posters to adhere to the plexi-glass.
Our printed vinyl posters came in a large contact sheet. We then carefully worked together to apply them to the plexi-glass.
I designed these compass cards to use as a tool for the actions involved in each phase of the INDEX: Design to Improve Life process.
Design to Improve Life Education engages students and facilitators in a design thinking process from the Prepare phase, in which the users begin researching and learning about a challenge; to the Perceive phase, in which users begin to understand the challenge and develop solutions; to the Prototype phase, in which the user tests and mends their solutions to adapt as necessary; to the Produce phase, in which tested solutions are implemented.
