full transcript

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.

Open Cloze

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.

Solution

  1. project
  2. visionary
  3. design
  4. solutions
  5. school
  6. directives
  7. schools
  8. repair
  9. promise
  10. place
  11. bleak

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.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
bertie county 10
rural communities 6
public education 5
shop class 5
creative capital 4
school system 3
school district 3
high school 3
small towns 2
public school 2
education system 2
learning landscape 2
blue dots 2
internet connection 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
public education system 2

Important Words

  1. absolute
  2. access
  3. anymore
  4. asset
  5. assets
  6. basically
  7. bertie
  8. biggest
  9. bleak
  10. bring
  11. broken
  12. brought
  13. capital
  14. carolina
  15. charleston
  16. charter
  17. chip
  18. clients
  19. colorado
  20. county
  21. creative
  22. denver
  23. design
  24. designing
  25. directives
  26. district
  27. dr
  28. emerge
  29. february
  30. firm
  31. fix
  32. fondly
  33. founded
  34. good
  35. important
  36. invited
  37. late
  38. letting
  39. live
  40. news
  41. number
  42. october
  43. opinion
  44. painting
  45. partner
  46. people
  47. perspective
  48. picture
  49. place
  50. places
  51. previously
  52. process
  53. project
  54. promise
  55. reason
  56. renegade
  57. repair
  58. results
  59. school
  60. schools
  61. services
  62. solutions
  63. sounds
  64. south
  65. specific
  66. specifically
  67. started
  68. superintendent
  69. system
  70. type
  71. visionary
  72. work
  73. zullinger