On the first day, our goal was to explore the visible tip of the iceberg—our daily practices and challenges—and recognise how they are rooted in deeper, systemic issues beneath the surface. On day two, we aimed to dive into these underlying systemic issues and emerge with more informed and effective practices, so we asked "What practices would make humanitarian design better?".
| Facilitators | Yara | Pierre |
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To start our morning workshop, we set up a space where everyone could openly share their perspectives and experiences around practices they have used in their daily work, activities or professional life.
We focused on identifying practices that contribute to improving humanitarian design’s approach and reputation. We used a structured framework so that participants could map out these practices, not necessarily to highlight the "best" practices, but to spot those that had the most impact or had been particularly valuable in past situations.
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Participant writing on post-it
Collected practices
We saw a great enthusiasm in sharing practices that could tackle some of the systemic issues. While the participants were mapping their practices, facilitators started to create clusters on a matrix table. Discussions emerged over some topics, e.g. the use of co-design navigated between an individual and a collective impact. We also noted less emphasis on the environmental category of the matrix table.
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Picture of the matrix table
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Matrix table of good practices
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