Meeting 3: Project Discovery 1
During Meeting 3, we began the project discovery sprint. Over this class and the next, you were to find and shape the early outlines of your term project. This is the thing you'll make that matters.
What We Did
We started by closing the loop on the gift-giving experience from January. You've already gone through the full design thinking cycle: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test — on someone else's problem. Now it's your turn to do it on your own.
After looking at examples of past MTTM projects to see the range of what students have made, you answered three questions on paper:
- What frustrates you, fascinates you, or feels broken in the world?
- What do you know more about than most people your age?
- If you could spend a week making anything — no constraints — what would it be?
Then you met your MTTM AI thinking partner. Each of you has the opportunity to craft a set of course-specific conversation threads that will support your thinking for the rest of the semester. Taking turns at the smart boards, you shared your three answers with the AI and watched it ask questions, make connections, and surface ideas you hadn't considered.
After the AI conversations, you wrote your one-sentence problem statement and typed it into a shared Google Doc. Then we did a table rotation: some of you stayed at your home table while the rest moved to new tables, explained your sentence in 30 seconds, and returned to put +1 next to the two statements you were most curious about.
This activity set the stage for the 2nd project discovery meeting the following day.
Photo credit
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