Global Goals Jam TokyoBay 2021 «Accepting signups»

Do you have a passion for solving social challenges to improve lives? Do you want to leverage your skills and ideas in a diverse and high-energy setting to identify and attack issues in sustainability and inequality?

Join us for the first edition of the Global Goals Jam for Junior High School and High School students in Tokyo, Japan, where local innovators, entrepreneurs, and creatives will join teams in over 200 cities around the world in designing actionable interventions toward achieving the Global Goals.

The Global Goals Jam is a two day designathon where creative teams work together on local challenges related to the Sustainable Development Goals. Using a tailored design thinking toolkit (the “Jamkit”), we will create interventions aimed at short term targets in support of the long term goals.

What’s the theme for this year’s GGJ TokyoBAY?

“Beyond-human-centered design”

Rising ocean levels, the health of a honey bee hive, the biodiversity of a forest – each of these environmental factors and non-human actors play a crucial role in protecting our basic needs for the survival of all species’ life on Earth. Yet, when humans go to create a new idea, product or service, the number one stakeholders that has historically dominated the spotlight of that creation process is more often than not the ones doing the most damage to our environments. That’s right- the humans! Furthermore, these forgotten stakeholders can be a huge game changer for the the success or failure of new products, services and ideas.

To plan for the sustainable continuation of a coastal community, we must considering global rising ocean levels. To maintain a balanced ecosystem for successful agriculture, we must consider the needs of honey bees and other pollinators as key stakeholders. To have a deeper understanding of who are the winners and who are the losers (and what is lost) when we create a mono-species forest, we must consider the local human and non-human community.

Now is the time to bring nature and non-human actors to the front through “beyond human centered design” or “environment-centered design”.

Key design challenge questions to this year’s GGJ Tokyo theme include:

• How might we design as nature?
• How will design processes and ideas change when we take a nature-centered perspective?
• What if nature and non-human actors are our first and main focus in our design activities?

Please see a fuller explanation of “Environment-centered Design” by Monika Sznel here 👉

Every year, Global Goals Jam Tokyo selects three areas from the SDGs which are related to the these as regional issues and tackles them. These are the three focus SDGs at this year’s GGJ TokyoBay:

Recommended for:

・People who want to take action on global sustainability and social impact goals
・People who want to try out design thinking in small collaborative teams to develop an idea they care about
・People who want to join a global community of people who are passionate about sustainability and social impact

Join us and #design2030now!

How do we identify our challenge and solution idea?

The Design Method Toolkit by Digital Society School.

What is the output?

The output of the Global Goals Jam is a visual or rough prototype.

Examples of a visual prototype include…

1. A wireframe, mockup, or other clickable prototype.
2. Video prototyping as a commercial or advertisement for the product or service.
3. A Storyboard, a sequence of drawings to represent how the service/product works.
4. A social media campaign, show the message and function of your prototype through a Facebook, Instagram Tiktok or other social media campaign
5. An art installation mockup

Here are some examples of past GGJ prototypes:

For more GGJ Past Examples, please see last year’s Global Goals Jam Sprint #4 Share it! AWRD page 👉
You can also follow GGJ Tokyo on Instagram!👉