The Disruptive Design Method (DDM) offers creatives and non-creatives alike the practical skills and mental tools that support activating positive change. By learning the three key phases of Mining, Landscaping and Building in this 6-week sprint, you’ll rapidly upskill with practical and immediate knowledge that you can put to use on your projects right away. Our method sets you up with design research, systems thinking, and creative development skills to create positive social and environmental disruptions for a circular and sustainable future.
Rapidly upskill with practical design research, systems thinking, and creative development skills that you can put to use on your projects immediately. Start this 6-week sprint to learn how to create positive social and environmental disruptions for a circular and sustainable future.
Gain practical skills and mental tools that support activating positive change
Learn the three key phases of Mining, Landscaping and Building
Build design research, systems thinking, and creative development skills
Create positive social and environmental disruptions for a circular and sustainable future
Curriculum
What’s inside this course
Learn the Mining, Landscaping and Building phases of the Disruptive Design Method is 6 rapid upskilling weeks. In the Mining phase, we do deep participatory research, suspend the need to solve, avoid trying to impose order, and embrace the chaos of any complex system we are seeking to understand. In the Landscaping phase, start to piece together a landscaped view through systems mapping and exploration. Insights are gathered, and locations of where to intervene in the system to leverage change are identified. In the Mining phase, development of divergent design ideas build on potential intervention points to leverage change within the system. The goal is not to solve, but to evolve the problem arena you are working within so that the status quo is shifted.
Support your sprint journey with these downloadable learning materials.
Modules
Materials
The Disruptive Design Method Handbook
DDM Activity Workbook
Advance your learning
Ready for the next level?
Consider taking the Systems Thinking course. Overcome linear thinking and unravel the interconnectedness of our world. This 5-part course will get your head around systems thinking and give you the tools you need to understand the complex social, industrial, and environmental systems at play.
“Being part of the UnSchool is not just about finding a connection with a global group of individuals eager to do good. It’s about finding a way to activate your own agency, knowing that that’s the only real way to change your world.”
“The content has given me a practical way to delve into complex problems, exploring thinking far beyond my normal lines of inquiry, and to surface new areas for intervention and innovative ways of designing those interventions. Everyone who is tackling systems should learn this.”
Catriona McLagan
Refreshing
“As someone operating in the nonprofit sphere, it was refreshing to branch out and learn a new way of thinking. I’m going to take this new learning to become an agent of cultural change in my circles.”
Michael Paone
World renowned expert training
Your instructor
Sustainability provocateur, award-winning designer, UNEP Champion of the Earth, and creative changemaker pioneer, Dr. Leyla Acaroglu challenges people to think differently about how the world works. Leyla’s main-stage TED talk on sustainability has been viewed over a million times, she is the founder of the UnSchool and creator of the Disruptive Design Method. As as a renowned international expert on systems thinking and sustainability, she runs workshops around the world and designs unique educational experiences that help equip people with the tools to intervene and change systems to make the status quo obsolete. Leyla is sought after for her unique approach to activating positive social change by design.
Options and Pricing
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What you get
6 weeks of activities and content
Tools, tips and techniques to advance your skills
Worksheets and downloadable PDFs to support your understanding
You will have access for 180 days from the date of purchase.
You can do a deep dive or space it out, but all together it will take about 30-40 hours to complete
If you need more time, please send us an email. There may be a small fee depending on how much more time you need. These are granted on a case by case basis.
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As part of our goal to make our programs equitable, we offer both partial scholarships and payment plans. Our limited number of scholarships are awarded based on demonstrated need to certain select courses and programs. We fund these to promote equitable access to our programs. We are committed to offering our scholarships to community members who would otherwise be unable to access a program at all.
