Developing a Co-Creation Toolkit for Humanitarian Innovation

D-Lab will develop, pilot, and evaluate a “Co-Creation Toolkit for Humanitarian Innovation." This toolkit will guide students through a multi-week module on co-creation and will include activities such as: multi-stakeholder mapping, reflection and introspection exercises, mindset exercises, team-building tools, co-creation simulations, sketch modeling, and facilitation capacity-building activities. The long-term goal of this project is to shift thinking, both at MIT and around the globe, toward more collaborative and inclusive approaches to problem-solving within the humanitarian response context. While the toolkit is being developed within the context of D-Lab’s Humanitarian Innovation class, it has applications in many other settings, both in academia and in the field.