Design Thinking for Experimental Contemplatives

Design Thinking for Experimental Contemplatives Dinner & Workshop
About Love, Death & Mourning
Manresa Gallery and St. Ignatius Church, University of San Francisco, 2014
Curated by and co-hosted with Joyce Grimm, Manresa Gallery

This Experimental Design Thinking Dinner & Workshop at Manresa Gallery, USF, was co-organized with curator Joyce Grimm. Drawing upon a menu of conversation prompts, select video and audio clips (my own and other’s work), and a workbook, participants built memorial objects for one another. Experimental adaptation of Death Over Dinner, Design Thinking at Stanford’s D. School, and my previous work.

Poetically pragmatic, the objective was to empower seemingly difficult conversations about the unknown into an experience of engagement, empathy, and presence. 

“I have the prototype that Frank made. The more I look at it, the more I’m amazed that something so simple could have so much resonance. I’ve been meaning to email him to tell him that.”—Participant