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2015/05/26 - Atlas hand in

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2015/05/25 - Working on final, Studentkåren final meeting

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2015/05/22 - Outlooks final presentation

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2015/05/20 - Stadsmissionen, drawing conclunsions and polishing the report

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2015/05/18 - Stadsmissionens Skånegatan butik, yet another visit and price comparison to Myrorna Södermalm

To sustain our incoherent pricing motion we set out to take picture of items allegedly unfairly/incoherently priced in both Stadsmissionen’s and Myrorna’s stores, compared them and interviewed eployees and customers about them.

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2015/05/15 - Stadsmissionens Report, second last submission

By this point Lara and myself decided to investigate the external aspects of the organisations even though there’s only one week left. It seems necessary to highlight the clash we’ve discovered between the two parts. The analysis will use two of the twelve stores as study cases. Here’s the map we’ve drawn of them.

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2015/05/12 - Value Based Design, lecture by Martin Sjöman

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2015/05/11 - Stadsmissionens Workshop

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2015/05/07 - A day in the(ir) life, enacting as ethnographic tool After Clark´s lecture we felt a totally renewed stream of motivation inside, and went to Stadsmissionen´s sorting facility in Sätra to work for a day. 

Purpose was to learn more by familiarising with the space and ambience, and eventually empathise with the workers before performing the workshop the following week.

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2015/05/06 - Design Anthropology, lecture by Diana Africano Clark

Best lecture of the year so far. 

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2015/05/04 - Prepping Stadsmissionens Workshop 

A week before the workshop´s scheduled date we decided to meet up and start writing down ideas.

After all our prior visits to Sätra´s sorting facility and having identified an area of interest already, coming up with activities seemed quite easy.

We realised straight away how dividing employees from employers was our top necessity: two different workshops rather than one.

The two workshops´ activities had to be tailored on the 2 hours management kindly granted us.  Four parts, including three static tasks and a mobile “enacting” one. The first three to be performed around a table in the cafeteria while having Fika, the other (in between) requiring to shuffle around the facility. 

Here follows the final schedule:

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2015/04/30 - Design and the brand, lecture by Mats Frick

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2015/05/01 - Mapping Sätra´s sorting facility

As a design consultant for Stadsmissionen the first thing I felt as necessary was to map the sorting facility, where most of the unit´s work happen. I am in a group of four and we are collaborating with  Production & Collection unit, under the Social Enterprise program. The unit runs all their second hand stores, and handles every donation in a (complicated) sorting process. The brief is to use different methods to address a designated area of interest within the organisation we chose – resulting in a report where we suggest what could be improved.

Currently the group is working on the mapping the system, logistics and work flow.

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2015/04/27 - Tools for analysis, lecture by Magnus Eneberg

One of the most controversial lectures yet. Seems like no one at Konstfack wants to even hear the word “commercial”, as if it was something necessarily bad, ready to harm our practice.

Lecture was an overview of the classic framing tools used in economics when in need of understanding a company. 

Being Stockholm Stadsmissionen a non-profit company, most of the crowd did not see the tools fit. We got into quite a discussione, which was not bad after all to also reframe my coursemates´ position on the matter.

Verganti´s education still stands strong over me and I don´t see a difference whether the revenue is kept or re-invested within the company itself, these classic tools still represent a straight-forward way to get a deeper understanding of whichever company.

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2015/04/24 - Creative Mornings Stockholm with Lisa Lindström, CEO of Doberman 

Lisa talked about the importance of treating employees within her company to keep the creative spark alive, about the importance of saying yes, and the positive consequences this has brought to her company.

Definition of Doberman´s idea of value, from their website doberman.se : “The foundation for our work is a very simple idea. The more true value for the user – the more true value for the business. And true value for the user can only be achieved through great experiences. This is the very core of our approach – taking products and services from a relevant idea and usable solution to a desirable product and magical experience. That is what we help our clients envision and navigate.”

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2015/04/22 - First visit to Stadsmissionens sorting facility

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