What

This experience introduced mischief and hacking as critical and necessary tools for creativity and imagination, and premiered a set of tools called the Mischief Cards. The workshop asked participants to consider the way hacks are, by definition, unauthorized and thus are moments when we will bump up against rules that are often built on exclusion and privilege.

Why & Who

This workshop, a collaboration with Shuya Gong, futurist and venture designer, was in response to the first year of a pandemic, when we recognized how the year had challenged us, in both necessary and totally shattering ways. From within those cracks and fissures, from the massive and micro and the complexity of constraints, we had witnessed incredible brilliance that spoke to our collective resilience, ingenuity, and humor. We wanted to nurture within IDEO a design practice of hacking, as a method for redistributing power and creating access.

Emergent questions

• What “good trouble” can design cause?

• How do we challenge existing premises of access and power?

• How do we  ignite and electrify our imaginations as a creative community?