This year Exhibit Change turned 5. It was a huge milestone and also an opportunity to reflect on where this journey has taken me. When I started Exhibit Change it was to address a need that I had. To bring together a variety of building blocks that I had acquired through education and work experience but didn't know where to put. Exhibit Change emerged in 2009 as the answer to this problem. |
Now, 5 years later, this isn't a good enough reason to drive the work and growth of Exhibit Change.
Over the next few months, my goal is to take a design thinking approach to refining Exhibit Change. Admittedly, this makes me feel vulnerable and exposed. I am getting a sense of what clients must have felt like in the past when I ask them to challenge themselves with tough questions. It feels like I am saying "I don't know what I am doing..." and yet what I want it to say is "I trust that my community knows better than I do..."
Over the next few months, my goal is to take a design thinking approach to refining Exhibit Change. Admittedly, this makes me feel vulnerable and exposed. I am getting a sense of what clients must have felt like in the past when I ask them to challenge themselves with tough questions. It feels like I am saying "I don't know what I am doing..." and yet what I want it to say is "I trust that my community knows better than I do..."
Here is the design challenge context:
For the past 5 years, Exhibit Change has collaborated and worked on a variety of consulting and organization-led initiatives in a spectrum of areas. This sometimes makes it hard to communicate the common thread of the project and to explain exactly what Exhibit Change does and is all about. The growing and supportive community of Exhibit Change has expressed the desire to do and learn more about Exhibit Change, but aren't really sure where to start.
For the past 5 years, Exhibit Change has collaborated and worked on a variety of consulting and organization-led initiatives in a spectrum of areas. This sometimes makes it hard to communicate the common thread of the project and to explain exactly what Exhibit Change does and is all about. The growing and supportive community of Exhibit Change has expressed the desire to do and learn more about Exhibit Change, but aren't really sure where to start.
Here's the HMW question I am beginning with. This will change. My hope is that by doing this process and doing it in an exposed way, I can demonstrate the design thinking is not easy or linear and the emergent lessons will be plentiful if you let them guide you.
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Jenn - totally scared & excited at the same time (I also will be documenting how I am feeling at the time of a blog - not sure why yet, but it feels important)
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Jenn - totally scared & excited at the same time (I also will be documenting how I am feeling at the time of a blog - not sure why yet, but it feels important)