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Hands-on learning.

Design Jam: Adaptive Products for Outdoor Recreation is a fast paced and fun interactive training and product innovation event for manufacturers, makers, limb loss community members, innovators, entrepreneurs, designers, students, problem solvers, design faculty, business coaches, recreational athletes and outdoor enthusiasts.  

 

Interdisciplinary teams come together in a state of the art laboratory to collectively brainstorm and prototype adaptive apparel, accessories and equipment, bringing product design and innovation, which typically happens behind closed doors, into an open, collaborative space. 

 

Participants gain empathy and listening skills, learn how to apply the principles of inclusive, human centered design to their future work, and initiate professional relationships across sectors and industries.

Provides experiential learning and professional development skills for students, interdisciplinary professionals, designers and interested members of the general public.

Unique Educational Opportunitiy 

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The active inclusion of end-users inspires innovative product development concepts for companies and manufacturers.

Innovative Mindset

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The event's unique structure gives voice to athletes and active members of the disability community, putting the principles of inclusive design to work.

Inclusive Design at Work

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What is the Design Jam?

Design Jams shift product innovation, which typically happens behind a few closed doors, to a collective and open space - one where many voices influence the process.

 

This event brings together interdisciplinary teams to:

  • Inspire innovation within the state's manufacturing sector;

  • Catalyze collaborations between designers and manufacturers throughout Michigan;

  • Create solutions for recreational athletes with limb loss;

  • Initiate relationships between designers, manufacturers, makers, service providers, and customers

  • Train more students, designers, employees and product entrepreneurs in the practice of inclusive design

Sponsorship Options

Design Jam Presenting Sponsor

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Design Jam Premiere Sponsor

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Design Jam Community Partner

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Inclusive Design Partners

Get involved with the 2024 Design Jam!

Manufacturers & Makers

Inspire innovation within the state's manufacturing sector.

Attend, actively participate and match product designers with future clients, manufacturers and product innovators. Get a first hand look at new product ideas that could be manufactured in Michigan.

Ways to get involved:

  • Participate

  • Provide subject matter expertise

  • Ground the product ideas in the realities of modern manufacturing capabilities and constraints

  • Elevate the experience for participants by donating materials

  • Volunteer as a facilitator on the day

End user and team leader Chris Casteel speaks with his team during the concepting phase.

Higher Education Partners

Align your institution with the values and benefits of inclusive design practices in a tangible and meaningful way.

​Ways to get involved:

  • Bring your students!

  • Elevate the Experience - Participate in the Jam and leverage your institution's expertise by offering educational content and resources. 

  • Be a promotional partner by encouraging your interdisciplinary students to participate. A wider range of academic expertise and geographies adds to the dynamic experience.

Team discusses plans for their prototype in the CCS Design and Materials Laboratory

Inclusion Advocacy Partners

Bring your lived experience to the event and build awareness of your services!

Get involved by: 

  • Bring your expertise on Assistive Technology

  • Enrich the Inclusive Design Training by collaborating on programming and content to help transfer knowledge, increase empathy and accelerate innovation.

  • Build awareness of your services.  

  • Help partners and participants to gain a clearer understanding of adaptive product design.

Design Jam team member and wheelchair user surveys the plans for their protype.

Workforce Advocates

Identify and recruit creative problem solvers who lead with empathy and seek out innovative and inclusive solutions.

Get Involved by: 

  • Helping link participants to industry connections 

  • Provide resources and expertise 

  • Be a key part of informational exchange between employers and the current, emerging and future workforce.

Design team walks down the hallway to their final presentation location

Subject Matter Experts 

 

If you are a subject matter expert in:


outdoor recreation, adaptive sports, product design or development, bringing products to market or think you may have something else to add,

 

contact us at info@designcore.org to start a conversation. 

Designer sketches out prototype plans

The 2024 Design Jam is sponsored in part by GM Design Outreach + Development.

Thank you to all of our partners and sponsors that make this event and the Detroit Month of Design possible.

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2024
Design Jam

TWO DAY DESIGN SPRINT STYLE WORKSHOP FOCUSED ON PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ADAPTIVE PRODUCTS FOR OUTDOOR RECREATION FOR THE LIMB-LOSS COMMUNITY AND BEYOND.

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