Creating a more health-informed environment at Chicago Ideas Week With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Ci3 Game Changer Chicago Design Lab hosted a workshop for Chicago Ideas week. This workshop taught the basic principles of game design, the impact different designs can have, and how GCC’s work uses games of all types—video, … Continue reading Harnessing the Power of Community
By Catherine Wieczorek, Visual Communications Designer, Ci3 Design Thinking Lab How do you create a youth-facing brand for adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) education and awareness? This summer, during four workshops Ci3’s Design Thinking Lab did just that. During the spring, we invited 14 young people from several neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side to … Continue reading Branding a Youth-Centered Model of Care
By Catherine Wieczorek, Visual Communications Designer, Ci3 Design Thinking Lab How does Ci3’s Design Thinking Lab (DTL) go from a prototype created during a participatory design workshop with young people, to a scalable communication tool? The idea of a tangible birth control counseling tool came directly from young people during our 2017 Summer Design Challenge, … Continue reading Making Contraceptive Choices Tangible For Youth
By Amanda Geppert, Director, Ci3 Design Thinking Lab Laura Paradis, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Design Lead, Ci3 Design Thinking Lab The Ci3 Design Thinking Lab (DTL) works with young people and providers to understand how sexual and reproductive healthcare could work better for youth and young adults. Recognizing that young people face challenges in … Continue reading Co-Designing Adolescent-Centered Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
By Laura Paradis Design Researcher and Strategist On October 9, Ci3’s Design Thinking Lab and the Comer Mobile Health Unit partnered with the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance (ISSA) to provide healthcare services and facilitate a workshop on approaches to human-centered design at their 2017 symposium. The event was a milestone in ISSA’s history, being the … Continue reading Providing services and perspectives at the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance Symposium
By Lee Hasselbacher, J.D. Sr. Policy Researcher The Mobile Health Unit, one of Ci3’s Design Thinking Lab projects, seeks to find new ways to meet young people where they are and provide the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care they desire. We believe that through designing new systems of delivery in partnership with communities and … Continue reading Quality Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare in the Justice System
By Bea Malsky, A/V Specialist Game Changer Chicago Infection City is an asymmetrical board game about epidemiology, vaccines, public health resource distribution, and meningitis. Intended for use in high school classrooms, Infection City enlists its most treacherous player as an insidious infection and the rest as a team of epidemiologists defending the city of Chicago with … Continue reading Infection City: New GCC Board Game Pits Meningitis Against a Team of Epidemiologists
Hearsay is a storytelling card game about contraception and safer sex. It’s also a game about relationships, emotions, and social networks. Playtesters have compared it to collaboratively writing a soap opera out loud. The Game Changer Chicago Design Lab made Hearsay for high school sex ed classrooms to prompt discussions about birth control and safer … Continue reading GCC Introduces “Hearsay,” a New Storytelling Sex Ed Card Game
By Marquez Rhyne Director, Transmedia Story Lab Last year, Ci3’s Transmedia Story Lab (TSL) launched Kissa Kahani, a two-year, international project that uses multimedia approaches, storytelling, and novel research techniques to better understand and promote gender equity in the urban areas of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. In Hindi, Kissa Kahani loosely translates as “anecdotes and stories.” We landed … Continue reading Kissa Kahani’s Anecdotes and Stories
Members of the Ci3 policy team are currently involved in policy discussions and a workgroup to support confidentiality protections for young people seeking sexual and reproductive health care services in Illinois. Research has shown that young people’s concerns about receiving confidential care regarding sexual and reproductive health services can play an important role in their … Continue reading The Case for Strengthening Confidentiality Protections for Youth in Illinois
