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GGJ San Francisco, Designing for Clean Water & Climate Action
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This is the San Francisco organizing team made up of volunteers from YCore, Service Design Network, and Presidio Graduate School.
As a lead up to the event, Presidio Graduate School (PGS) hosted a 17-week webinar series discussing each of the 17 Global Goals. These events were led by graduate students with guest speakers, from across the US and as far as Guinea, brought together to talk about how local efforts can have a broader impact.
Our 2-day Global Goals Jam was hosted at the Google.org Community Space in San Francisco. We had over 80 participants register and over 50 attendees over the two days. Our focus was on SDG #6 Clean Water & Sanitation and SDG #13 Climate Action. To launch the event we invited local leaders to share “lightening challenges” that our attendees then formed teams around solving for. The challenge problems included nitrogen pollution, reducing plastic water bottle usage, how to pitch climate adaptation initiatives to funders, and the water-energy nexus.
During the event we had remote teams connect with us from Romania and Guatemala, and had expert “office hours” from PGS professor and climate expert, Jimmy Jia, in Seattle, WA. Attendees joined to learn more about climate change and connect with like-minded people, they came to explore how design-thinking can help solve intractable problems, and break down global issues to solutions to implement in a local community.
Attendees left with skills and resources and feeling empowered to work together as a community to address complex issues. Together, we prototyped the following solutions:
Landlord incentives for water-efficiency;
Climate resilient communities;
Connecting farmers to nitrogen reduction technologies aligning people, planet, & profit; and
Replace plastic water bottles with water as a service.
As a lead up to the event, Presidio Graduate School (PGS) hosted a 17-week webinar series discussing each of the 17 Global Goals. These events were led by graduate students with guest speakers, from across the US and as far as Guinea, brought together to talk about how local efforts can have a broader impact.
Our 2-day Global Goals Jam was hosted at the Google.org Community Space in San Francisco. We had over 80 participants register and over 50 attendees over the two days. Our focus was on SDG #6 Clean Water & Sanitation and SDG #13 Climate Action. To launch the event we invited local leaders to share “lightening challenges” that our attendees then formed teams around solving for. The challenge problems included nitrogen pollution, reducing plastic water bottle usage, how to pitch climate adaptation initiatives to funders, and the water-energy nexus.
During the event we had remote teams connect with us from Romania and Guatemala, and had expert “office hours” from PGS professor and climate expert, Jimmy Jia, in Seattle, WA. Attendees joined to learn more about climate change and connect with like-minded people, they came to explore how design-thinking can help solve intractable problems, and break down global issues to solutions to implement in a local community.
Attendees left with skills and resources and feeling empowered to work together as a community to address complex issues. Together, we prototyped the following solutions:
Landlord incentives for water-efficiency;
Climate resilient communities;
Connecting farmers to nitrogen reduction technologies aligning people, planet, & profit; and
Replace plastic water bottles with water as a service.
