Workshop 9 of 9 · Category A
Social Design: Responding Creatively to Community Needs
Creative, human-centred responses to real social needs
All our courses can also be delivered on request: online, hybrid or in person at any venue, anywhere in the world, in Arabic, French or English.
Season
2026-2027, scheduled on request
Format
3 days, 10:00 to 16:00 each day, 12 contact hours per module
Delivery
Slí Nua Nexus, Glebe Street, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, F31 NN50, or your venue, online or hybrid
Certification
Certificate of completion for this module
Overview
A creative, hands-on intensive that uses design methods to respond to social needs, turning lived experience and community insight into services, objects, rituals and interventions that people actually use.
Objectives
To give participants a practical social-design toolkit: needs research, insight framing, rapid prototyping and testing with the people the work is meant to serve.
Learning outcomes
Participants will run light-touch needs research, frame insights into clear design opportunities, prototype a response at low cost, and plan how to test and iterate it in the community.
Who it is for
Community workers, artists and makers, social entrepreneurs, youth and family services, volunteers and local residents.
You leave with
A tested prototype of a social-design response, with an insight brief and an iteration plan.
Included in these bundles
Book this module inside a thematic track and save around a quarter on the individual rates.
This module is part of the Potential Workshops. Complete all 9 workshops to earn the Slí Nua Advanced Certificate in Civic Innovation & Project Management. See the full series.
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Call for Creatives
Want to run something like this with us?
We welcome proposals from creatives, coaches, facilitators, artists, makers and subject-matter experts. Talks, workshops, multi-week courses or residencies; we handle the space, the setup and the audience, you bring the craft.