Untested Thinking: Half-formed ideas exposed to new perspectives.
Design Dialogues presents Untested Thinking
Designers prototype products, interfaces, services. The one thing we never prototype is the thinking: essays, theories, frameworks.
Barcelona Design Week asks what happens when ideas stop being abstract and start meeting reality. This session applies prototyping to the thinking.
Asking someone for a share of what they have is a legitimate act. As we grow in seniority we get better at offering and worse at asking. This session runs the other way round.
Untested Thinking is a session to test work that isn't finished. It brings together experienced professionals and takes each person from half-formed thinking to a specific need they can ask the others to move forward. Everyone is an author and a reader. By the end, everyone has asked for help, and helped someone.
What to expect
A small group of experienced professionals
Sharing unfinished work and where we are stuck
Finding someone to collaborate with, someone to read it, someone who has done it before
A clear opportunity to help someone else, as well as be helped
The session will be carried out in English
This space is for you who are
Carrying an idea that has stayed in your own head too long
Experienced enough that people ask you for answers, and honest enough to still have questions
Working on something unfinished: a piece of writing, a strategy, a framework, a theory, a service
Willing to be offer your help to someone else, not only receive
The registration form becomes your introductory card to make the most of the session.
Where
Juno House, Barcelona.
If what you bring on the workshop needs more perspectives, this is where it can go next:
Untested Thinking runs as a platform for professionals to publish and test their thinking without it needing to become a polished piece. Think beta release for peer-to-peer feedback from a selected audience.
◆ Untested Thinking Platform
About Design Dialogues
Many experienced professionals find themselves at a crossroads. It’s easy to feel like we’re supposed to have all the answers and focus on giving rather than receiving. But growth shouldn’t stop with seniority. We still crave fresh perspectives, open dialogue, and a supportive community-no matter where we are in our careers.
Design Dialogues is a space to connect with professionals who share learnings, challenge the status quo, and find inspiration to open new possibilities to keep evolving, by design.
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