School of X exists to help you create the impacts you want to see in the world around you. It’s wonderful to see how the community members who came together in 2021 for a School of X bootcamp are still growing and going strong today, driving the change they dreamed about. We are all people of design.
Can design thinking foster closer social bonds among neighbours? Yes, it can! In the case of a group of Queenstown residents, a collective aspiration for a more loveable neighourhood – via stronger community bonds – was enough to transform an empty patch of grass into the hottest place to be! The Queenstown Kakis gather monthly for a range of activities that community members themselves suggest and deliver. This leads to deeper understanding between people, the growth of connections, and thus, the capacity to co-create more opportunities for each other. Relationship building through mutual understanding can bring people to previously unimagined new outcomes. It’s much like the process of design thinking – the spark that led to the Queenstown Kakis initiative via a design thinking bootcamp led by the School of X. In Queenstown, it’s created a ground-up network of support and exchange. Read more about how design thinking fostered community bonds by heading to https://bit.ly/pod-qtk. – Organised by the DesignSingapore Council, People of Design celebrates the everyday visionaries who are delivering extraordinary impact through design. These innovators defy the stereotype that design is only for designers or that it is merely about aesthetics – it is a tool for positive change that is accessible to everyone. #DesignSingaporeCouncil #PeopleOfDesign