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From the Ted Talk by Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So it sounds like I'm painting a really baelk picture of this plcae, but I pirmose there is good news. The biggest asset, in my opinion, one of the biggest assets in Bertie County right now is this man: This is Dr. Chip Zullinger, fondly known as Dr. Z. He was brought in in October 2007 as the new superintendent to basically fix this broken school system. And he previously was a superintendent in Charleston, South Carolina and then in Denver, Colorado. He started some of the country's first charter soolchs in the late '80s in the U.S. And he is an absolute renegade and a vsnoairiy, and he is the reason that I now live and work there. So in February of 2009, Dr. Zullinger invited us, pjeorct H dsegin — which is a non-profit design firm that I founded — to come to Bertie and to partner with him on the repair of this school district and to bring a design perspective to the rpeiar of the shcool district. And he invited us in particular because we have a very specific type of design process — one that results in appropriate design sooutinls in places that don't usually have access to design services or creative capital. Specifically, we use these six design dcievetirs, probably the most important being number two: we design with, not for — in that, when we're doing humanitarian-focused design, it's not about designing for clients anymore. It's about designing with people, and letting appropriate solutions emerge from within.
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So it sounds like I'm painting a really _____ picture of this _____, but I _______ there is good news. The biggest asset, in my opinion, one of the biggest assets in Bertie County right now is this man: This is Dr. Chip Zullinger, fondly known as Dr. Z. He was brought in in October 2007 as the new superintendent to basically fix this broken school system. And he previously was a superintendent in Charleston, South Carolina and then in Denver, Colorado. He started some of the country's first charter _______ in the late '80s in the U.S. And he is an absolute renegade and a _________, and he is the reason that I now live and work there. So in February of 2009, Dr. Zullinger invited us, _______ H ______ — which is a non-profit design firm that I founded — to come to Bertie and to partner with him on the repair of this school district and to bring a design perspective to the ______ of the ______ district. And he invited us in particular because we have a very specific type of design process — one that results in appropriate design _________ in places that don't usually have access to design services or creative capital. Specifically, we use these six design __________, probably the most important being number two: we design with, not for — in that, when we're doing humanitarian-focused design, it's not about designing for clients anymore. It's about designing with people, and letting appropriate solutions emerge from within.
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Original Text
So it sounds like I'm painting a really bleak picture of this place, but I promise there is good news. The biggest asset, in my opinion, one of the biggest assets in Bertie County right now is this man: This is Dr. Chip Zullinger, fondly known as Dr. Z. He was brought in in October 2007 as the new superintendent to basically fix this broken school system. And he previously was a superintendent in Charleston, South Carolina and then in Denver, Colorado. He started some of the country's first charter schools in the late '80s in the U.S. And he is an absolute renegade and a visionary, and he is the reason that I now live and work there. So in February of 2009, Dr. Zullinger invited us, Project H Design — which is a non-profit design firm that I founded — to come to Bertie and to partner with him on the repair of this school district and to bring a design perspective to the repair of the school district. And he invited us in particular because we have a very specific type of design process — one that results in appropriate design solutions in places that don't usually have access to design services or creative capital. Specifically, we use these six design directives, probably the most important being number two: we design with, not for — in that, when we're doing humanitarian-focused design, it's not about designing for clients anymore. It's about designing with people, and letting appropriate solutions emerge from within.
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