Lee-Sean Huang & Alessandra Orofino of SVA's Design for Social Innovation program and Purpose.com discuss the role of design in building participatory social movements.
10. “Linking beauty and purpose
can create a sense of
communal agreement that
helps diminish the sense of
disorder and incoherence that
life creates.” - Milton Glaser
11. What are the boundaries of design?
Charles Ray Eames
12. What are the boundaries of design?
What are the boundaries of problems?
Charles Ray Eames
13. How do you redesign the user interface
of civic participation in Rio de Janeiro?
24. Build commitment over time
Committed core:
7 Activate and empower
evangelists Convene
Attend
5
Donate
ENGAGEMENT
INDEX
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3 New members:
Achieve scale with
low-barrier, viral Create
actions
Share
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29. How do you redesign the user interface
of civic participation in Rio de Janeiro?
30. “Move to a city, hang out
in bars, form a gang, turn
it into a scene, turn that
into a movement.”
Peter Schjeldahl
31. Elements of a Movement
1 2 3
Storytelling Protocols Artifacts
32. Our Values We believe that increased participation by
youth and members of the emerging middle
class in the political process will help bring
about greater accountability and transparency.
We are non-partisan and independent. We
don’t accept money from government or
political parties.
We believe that the internet can serve as a
school for a more robust democracy.
We are committed to open source sharing.
We value remix and reuse.
33. Evaluation Principles for Campaign Themes
▢ RIPE ! SALIENT
Is the issue in the news/being talked about? Is it something that has strong public support and a
groundswell of concern among our target audience?
▢ ACTIONABLE
Can Meu Rio or its members “do” something about the issue? Is there a concrete and plausible
political, social, or cultural action that can be taken to affect change?
▢ POLITICAL/CULTURAL IMPACT
Meu Rio’s goal is to build a more participatory and open political culture in Rio. While not every
campaign needs to directly influence the political process, each campaign should have some
short, medium, or long term political objective or impact on behavioral/cultural change among
the citizens of Rio.
▢ COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
Is this an issue or campaign where Meu Rio can take a leadership role while working with other
partner organizations working in the same space? Does Meu Rio have a comparative advantage
because of our member base, brand equity, and/or innovative use of technology?
▢ EARNED MEDIA/LIST GROWTH
Will running the campaign generate free earned media and/or promote Meu Rio membership
growth?
34. Evaluation Principles for Campaign Tools Tactics
▢ CONNECTIVE
Does it relate to existing user behaviors and social dynamics? Does it bring the community tighter together or
connect people closer with their decision makers?
▢ PARTICIPATORY
Is it open-ended enough to invite participation but guided and usable enough to actually use?
▢ USER SERVICE
Does it have a clear theory of change? Does the experience inspire, delight, or motivate users?
▢ SCALABLE
Does it “work” (both technologically and compelling for users) for 5 users as well as it does for 5 million)?
▢ REUSABLE
Can it be reused/repurposed by Meu Rio for future campaigns and not just a one-off novelty?
▢ HACKABLE
Is it open source/open API? Can it be reappropriated by users/hackers in new, exciting, unexpected ways or used
by other cities/movements?
▢ AWESOME/INTANGIBLES
Is it “magical”? Compelling in an intuitive/emotional way? Does it have that certain “je ne sais quoi”?
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1 2 3
Storytelling Protocols Artifacts
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54. Elements of a Movement
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Storytelling Protocols Artifacts
What is the crisis/problem? What do you believe in? What Make social objects that
How will we find a solution? are the rules of engagement? invite participation.