$1,000 Projects from our 2018 Entrepreneurial Design class

My partner Christina Xu and I are coming to the end of another year of teaching Entrepreneurial Design at SVA IxD, and the students just a few days left on their $1K Challenge campaigns.

There are some lovely projects here and I encourage you to take a look and become a backer if you are so inclined. You hold the key to making a grad student happy today:

• temporary tattoos based on traditional Chinese culture
• a participatory art project about childhood verbal abuse
• a collection of conversations about art education reform in China
• a nudibranch photobook
• an art/therapy/feast day for people with tinnitus
• a popup art gallery for homeless artists
• a postcard campaign highlighting small campaigns of social change in Brazil
• a collection of stories by people who love their libraries
• a workshop for designers getting into AR/VR
• a documentary about high school volunteers in Vietnam
• a guided journaling club
• a publication showcasing contemporary Peruvian art
• an art empowerment kit for kids experiencing bullying
• a collaborative magnetic calendaring system for parents and kids
• an animated story about restorative justice

Christina and I have been teaching together for the past 5 years, and for this latest iteration, we actually scrapped everything and redesigned the course from scratch. We’re looking forward to writing up some of the lessons learned, frameworks and principles we’ve developed, but in the meantime, all I’ll say is that it feels like the course has grown up.

Each project is clearly tied to a community of relevance for the student, and if you click through and read the projects and watch the videos, you’ll see that there is a tremendous amount of heart carried through in the work.

For background, here’s how some of the students arrived at their respective projects — this will also give you a glimpse into some of our teaching changes:

• The designer will see you now. by Rachel Balma
• Egos and Answers by Kate Styer
• Making a community offering and what I learned from it by Jason Branch
• An Anonymous Letter by Yumeng Ji
• Traditional culture view of mine by Xiaoxi Yuan
• Things I learnt from my first offering to a community by Abhinav Sircar
• What I have learned from designing a community offering by Angie Ngoc Tran
• Lessons Learned From Creating My First Community Offering by Margarita Yong
• What I learned from the Brazilian Community living in the U.S. by Paula Daneze
• Kickstarter Explosions by Mia Darling
• How might we support those who support loved ones dealing with alcoholism? by Andrea Kang
• Lessons Learned From My Initial Offering by Addi Hou