BOOKS
The core content in the handbook, the fifth in a series on how to make positive impactful change, offers a practical roadmap for activating a career as a creative changemaker by design.
Discover the unique creative method of activating positive social and environmental change by learning the tools and techniques of the Disruptive Design Method.
This fourth handbook in the Make Change series by Leyla Acaroglu defines the key tools of Circular Systems Design, systems thinking, life cycle thinking and product service systems models.
This e-book shares insights from cognitive and social sciences so you can uncover the secrets to excellent, highly engaging facilitation techniques to empower and activate others through ethical leadership.
Make Change helps you craft intended and integrity based interventions into existing systems, to empower and enact positive would changing outsources through the things that you do.
This book offers a simple interaction to the suite of sustainable design strategies that can be employed when creating sustainable goods and services. It’s designed for educational contexts for young adults.
Activate your brain with all our digital handbooks on making change, creative disruption and systems change! This super pack includes all five digital handbooks plus bonus material. Download and get started today!
Activate your agency and skills for making positive change with ALL our cool creative activation tools and a bonus of the Disruptive Design course! This superpack has all our five handbooks + all our digital toolkits to help you facilitate change!
FREE RESOURCES
This FREE Toolkit is designed to support a flow from traditional linear thinking through to circular and sustainable solutions, the workshop kit includes 6 worksheets that step you through the process of understanding a linear system through doing a product life cycle thinking exploration, identifying areas of intervention that could be adopted with this current model, exploring circular business strategies, looking at sustainable redesign options and then ideating a series of propositions that can be converted into a new circular flow.
This universal card deck was developed as part of the ChangeMakers Lab. The kit comes with 56 cards and 21 activities that can be downloaded and used by anyone to advance sustainability and creativity. In this pack you get a full card game pack in Thai and English with games to play focused on sustainability, systems thinking, active citizenship and making change.
The Circular Economy Curriculum designed for use in high schools, offers tools to learn how to redesign products and services so that they are more sustainable, equitable, and effective at meeting our human needs without creating negative consequences to the planet. A series of interactive educational tools that includes workbooks (available in English, Finnish and Swedish) and videos designed to integrate circular thinking into the classroom.
This workshop facilitation toolkit is designed to support the creative exploration and development of digital campaigns. This toolkit includes a step-by-step guide to facilitating engaging workshops and designing creative campaigns to active positive change for an equitable future. Part 1 shares a workshop process through systems thinking and creative ideation from the Disruptive Design Method (DDM), and Part 2 provides a set of actions to support designing and developing creative and engaging digital campaigns. This toolkit is free to download and use.
Your everyday actions can help to seed a movement that will dramatically and quickly reduce the massive environmental and social burdens that disposability has led us to, and help activate a global shift to a future that has positive outcomes for the entire planet. This requires all of us to embrace #POSTDISPOSABLE change!
Discover how to activate your everyday superpowers for making a positive, purpose-filled impact on the planet today! 12 everyday Superpowers that everyone can use to make change! We put together this toolkit of everyday superpowers so every active citizen of the world who wants to participate with more purpose in the construction of the systems around them can.
TOOLKITS & PACKS
The Design Play Cards help players explore and frame creative problem solving through the lens of design for sustainability and disruptive design thinking. English & Spanish. Great for use in schools, universities and design studios around the world, the award winning Design Play Cards helps players explore & frame creative problem solving through the lens of design for sustainability.
Perfect for strategists, campaigners, communication experts and creative teams, the Game Changer Game challenges players to think through new lenses to generate amazing new ideas.
Over 20 short games inviting you to positively disrupt your everyday thinking, this toolkit combines cognitive sciences and design thinking techniques to create high energy exercises for professional play.
The Designercise Kids kit helps younger people think differently through a series of fun age appropriate ideation games and unleash their innovative thinking skills through fun games.
This kit helps players develop approaches to divergent language and narrative use, build stronger communication skills and improve collaboration, including suggestions to overcome narrative block!
This kit is perfect for designing games around empathy, design research, innovative thinking and the role of design in everyday life.
Take a physical approach to shifting perspectives and problem-solving using emotion, language and interpersonal cues through the card decks, to build improv skills through games.
This toolkit combines cognitive sciences and design thinking techniques to create high energy exercises for professional play.
Activate your agency and skills for making positive change with ALL our cool creative activation tools and a bonus of the Disruptive Design course! This superpack has all our five handbooks + all our digital toolkits to help you facilitate change!
Download all of our creative change-making toolkits today with our superpack! Get started today with Designercise, Game Changer Game and a bunch more exciting and ready-to-use downloadable facilitator tools and games.
INTRODUCTORY CLASSES
A holistic approach to complex problem solving that combines sociological inquiry methods with systems and design thinking approaches, the DDM helps you to develop systems interventions.
Discover how to create quick and complex analog systems maps, introduction to systems thinking and the techniques for doing more advanced maps and learn how to see relationships in complex systems.
This starter course was developed to help you understand one of the core tools needed to replace the linear unsustainable model. By taking this course you will learn how to advance a systems mindset so we can move to a regenerative, circular and sustainable economy. This short introductory course on systems change is about introducing systems thinking as a tool, identifying the core techniques and looking at different ways of applying it. This is designed to help you get started using this approach in your daily professional activities in helping to bring about a sustainable future.
Focus on stocks and flows, causal relationships and being able to identify archetypes in systems dynamics, systems mapping techniques and advance your understanding of systems thinking.
Learn a full suite of sustainable and circular design strategies and how to apply them to the design process in order to leverage the power that design holds for making positive impacts.
Understand the difference between our existing, resource-draining linear systems and the circular systems that we need for a regenerative, sustainable future.
Learn all about cognitive biases and develop more mastery over your cognitive processes, and, as a result, be able to make more ethical and considered decisions in your interactions.
Gain the skills to do quick, paper-based life cycle explorations for comparing products and services, know when and how to get LCA data, support and apply the new knowledge through practice exercises.
Equip yourself with the tools for taking action and making positive change and get started using this approach in your daily professional activities with a range of approaches to make positive impact.
CERTIFICATION
This self-directed learning experience is a 6 month program designed to activate your agency in creative change making through the Disruptive Design Method (DDM) core content and agency building skills. Each month you get curated materials laid out in a progressive learning experience that covers core content, along with learning challenges and activities. This certification includes the full 12 module set of the Disruptive Design Method Masterclass, with additional unique content and activities.
This 10 month online learning (+2 month mentorship) certification program is designed for emerging leaders, intrapreneurs and career changers deeply passionate about making a positive impact through all that they do. We provide content and provocation to help you establish your facilitation and leadership skills. This program offers advanced training in the Disruptive Design Method and is perfect for people wanting to drive change within an organization or wanting to solidify their career as a leader in this space.
Gain advanced skills in designing and facilitating transformative, cerebrally engaging and agency activating knowledge transfer experiences with our UnSchool Educator Certification Track. This is advanced learning experience is designed for committed and established practitioners wanting to significantly advance their capacity as facilitators of change and obtain certification from the UnSchool in our methods, techniques and experiential pedagogy.