Program Manager &
Learning Experience Design
Sustainable
Development
Goals Partner
Collaboration
Partner
Community Partner
Academic
Partner
Facilitation
Partner
Collaboration
Partner
Community Partner
Program
Host
Social
Entrepreneurship
Partner
Community Partner
About Program
Design Post-COVID Humanity (DPCH) is an initiative of Hamad Bin Khalifa University in collaboration with strategic partners.
DPCH is an innovative, multiplex and blended educational space to collectively work on the new normal and the new humanity awaiting us. DPCH presents youth with an educational journey that unleashes their transformative power to design a fairer, more inclusive and sustainable post-covid humanity.
DPCH refers to the philosophical, spiritual and interdisciplinary dimensions of the post-humanity and stresses three key virtues – Taaruf, Taawun and Tarahum or Acquaintance, Cooperation, Mercifulness to empower the youth in designing post-covid humanity.
Purpose of the Program
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DPCH aims to fully integrate the power of the youth in the Middle East and North Africa with a comprehensive understanding of the values of humanity in order to create a blueprint for curating sustainable change in a new age.
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DPCH urges the youth to cooperate and diagnose common spaces which can flourish the collective power of humanity as youth have the ability to think creatively and take action instantly.
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DPCH will therefore provide various human centered design thinking training, applications, and prototyping experiences which will initiate cooperation that will shape the post-covid world.
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Participants will cooperate with each other in teams and with innovation labs, experts, scholars and practitioners in open spaces to offer value driven perspectives to design post-covid humanity cooperate with.
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DPCH invites the youth to embark on a mission to acquaint us with each other more intimately, create and maintain social value, acknowledging and persisting in the pursuit of new opportunities in order to serve that mission, and continuously engage in a process of innovation, adaptation, and seeking knowledge.
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DPCH urges us to work towards the common good of humanity as described above, as there are certain layers we must strip ourselves from; mainly ignorance and egotism.
Goals of the Program
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To synthesize innovative thinking, leadership and ethics in order to make impactful decisions using Human-Centered Design methods.
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To develop inclusive, creative and ethically focused problem solving mindsets that would embrace all differences for post-covid humanity.
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To design viable, desirable and feasible, collective projects to build stronger communities that can support a post-covid humanity.
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To demonstrate the necessity to bring youth, policy makers, scholars, leaders and other stakeholders together and formulate steps to design post-covid humanity in a fair, inclusive, sustainable and ethical manner.
COMPONENTS OF PROGRAM
HumaN Centered Design Training by Innovation Labs
Participants will learn the Human-Centered Design process which is a creative problem-solving approach to design solution models that can improve human life.
Open
Spaces
with
GLOBAL Partners
Convening experience consisting of a space to meet, collaborating partners and other stakeholders join forces with the participants around their human centered designs that reflect Taaruf, Taawun and Tarahum.
Collaborative Digital Concept Mappings
Collaborative concept mapping to solve an authentic, contextually situated problem through using tools such as MURAL app. This component visualizes the outcomes of Open Spaces as well.
Mentoring
Advisory, support and guidance for the participant groups to overcome challenges they face and help build their designs.
Digital Mindfulness & Ikigai Sessions
Trainings and meditations for the participants to increase their productivity, creativity and shifting their mindsets towards common goals.
Academic Speaker Series
Lectures and interaction with top-notch academics from various different disciplines.
Inspirational Talks by Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Designpreneurs
Interventions by vibrant innovators and entrepreneurs who will share their experiences with participants.
Networking events
with local organizations
Collaborative concept mapping to solve an authentic, contextually situated problem through using tools such as MURAL app. This component visualizes the outcomes of Open Spaces as well.
DPCH
Summit During Ramadan
30 day Summit during Ramadan 2021, hosting an exciting session every day of the Ramadan.
Behavioral Insights Experiments
Designing projects with leading behavioral economists to produce "nudges" that will entail experiments to help people make better choices.
PROGRAM TIMELINE
LAST UPDATE: 19 SEP 2020
SPEAKERS OF DPCH
HIS EXCELLENCY
HAMAD
AL-KAWARI
Minister of State, Qatar
President of Qatar
National Library
DR. EMAD EL-DIN SHAHIN
Interim Provost, Dean
College of Islamic Studies
Hamad Bin Khalifa University
DR. LESLIE PAL
Professor; College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
DR. HADIZA KERE ABDULRAHMAN
Lecturer of
Inclusive Education
Bishop Grosseteste University
DR. JEREMY KOONS
Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar
DR. NADER HASHEMI
Associate Professor; ICRS, Middle East; Cert Director, Religion & International Director of the Center for Middle East Studies
ANTONIO CINELLI
Project Manage
LE VIE DI LEONARDO
DA VINCI (The Ways of
Leonardo Da Vinci)
DR. MOHAMMED GHALY
Professor; College of Islamic Studies Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics
Hamad Bin Khalifa University
APPLICATION PROCESS
Who is our target audience?
Motivated and inspired youth (Ages 15 - 30) from all around the world who want to change the results of reality which are unfair and unequal we face today.