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Management, Sustainability and Design
SUSTAINABILITY PROJECTS BUILT ON DESIGN FRAMEWORK
I've read about design-thinking and its popular framework way before I started work, so I aimed to plan and perceive my business and volunteer projects within this framework ever since. Why? To practice developing my understanding and efficiency in this discipline that I greatly appreciate.
IDEATE
EMPATHIZE
TEST
DEFINE
PROTOTYPE
My mission is to design naturally sensitive systems and products to make sustainable energy reachable, affordable and attractive for the average user.
DEFINE
Educate individuals through self-reflection and experimenting
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Sustainable, engaging, user-friendly model
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On all kinds of sexism; conscious and subconscious
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Make all genders aware of the sexism they cause
PROTOTYPE
Breaking Lab website: platform for training and sharing
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Challenged and revised the solution through discussions with experts/mentors
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Feedback on UX, graphic design and appeal
TEST
Presented to the jury
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Became the winner of the big prize: budget, mentorship and
co-working space of Epigra - a full service digital agency for social innovations and entrepreneurs
IDEATE
Breaking Lab:
a web-based gamified platform on sexism
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For adults of all genders
Trainings with example videos and case stories
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Gamification for long-term engagement
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Sustainable solution: Update training content regularly by creating a marketplace maintained by users, UGC
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An ecosystem and qualification standard of awareness on sexism: NGO, B2B, B2C
EMPATHIZE
Self-reflections and experiences on sexism in everyday lives
Sexism is faced in micro AND macro levels
Subtle sexism hidden in words, socially-accepted roles/"norms"/stereotypes
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All genders face and cause sexism
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Current trainings on sexism are boring, not interactive
Sponsors:
To view the pitching presentation, please click on the link.
PROJECTS
Breaking Lab: Experimenting Equality
(@ Social Innovation Hackathon Istanbul by Re:Coded)
A Tech Solution for Gender Equality: self-sustaining, constantly evolving, UGC-fed, web-based education through experimentation platform to fight against micro¯o sexism in everyday lives by changing perception and habits of indiviuals of all genders
Zeynep Olcer
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