A Series of Handbooks for Creative Rebels and Change Agents
The Make Change Handbook series offers a set of shart, easy to read handbooks on topics relavent to make change, exploring systems and activating your own agency for positive impact.
The first handbook, Make Change: A Handbook for Creative Rebels and Change Agents, explores all the different concepts and ways you can engage with creative change making.
The second book is Tips and Tricks for Facilitating Change, and this came about after years of facilitating workshops and knowledge transfer sessions that all required a different level of experience design to make the sessions effective. This book is based on two global human experiences: our shared social construction and the influence of neurochemicals.
The third book in the Make Change Series is the Disruptive Design Method Handbook, detailing how to enact the mining, landscaping, and building method for making change. This 3-part applied method is the outcome of years of work and research into a systems and sustainability approach to designing interventions that leverage change within a system.
The forth handbook is Circular Systems Design which explores systems thinking and designing systems wide solutions for complex social and environmental issues. The more you discover systems thinking and embrace a creatively disruptive approach to participating in the world, the more you will gain autonomy over the opportunity you have to participate with purpose and make change in the world around you.
The fifth handbook is Design Systems Change. This handbook is an in-depth exploration of agency-building tools for activating a life of creative changemaking. Packed with new insights and ideas on how to expand your sphere of influence and contribute to the transition to a circular and regenerative future, this handbook is also a workbook, complete with interactive reflections and actions to help expand your capacity to make change.
The objective of this series of handbooks is to synthesize complex knowledge into quick transferable chunks of information in ways that are engaging and actionable.
Make Change
A Handbook for Creative Rebels and Change Agents, by Leyla Acaroglu. The digital e-book is 60 pages filled with fascinating and intriguing information. Make Change explores a toolbox of mental tools and practice opportunities for making change. It positions social and environmental sustainability as a core driver, rather than as an additional component, of creative endeavors. The handbook covers the basics of the psychological, behavioral, social and cultural theories on change. It helps readers to craft intentional interventions into existing systems, to empower and enact positive world changing outcomes.
Tips and Tricks for Facilitating Change
This insightful handbook on the tips and tricks anyone needs to make and facilitate positive change is the second book the MAKE CHANGE series by Leyla Acaroglu. It offers readers a quick dive into the weird and wonderful world of human experiences. Drawing on cognitive sciences and sociology, this guidebook offers a framework for thinking differently about facilitating change. Offering insights and suggestions on ways to design experiences that engage, delight and inspire others.
The perfect companion guide for designers, managers, educators and facilitators of all stripes, TIPS & TRICKS to facilitating change is the handbook for creative rebels and change agents who want to ignite and activate positive impacts through their work!
Disruptive Design Method
Are you creative, eager to disrupt the status quo and passionate about making the world work better for all of us? This handbook will help you activate your agency, upskill in changemaking, and amplify your impact.
Discover the unique creative method of activating positive social and environmental change through the Disruptive Design Method – a three-part process of mining, landscaping and building to help you activate positive systems change in the world around you.
Developed by sustainability provocateur and creative protagonist, award-winning designer, sociologist, and UNEP 2016 Champion of the Earth, Dr. Leyla Acaroglu, the Disruptive Design Method is a holistic and substance-based approach to complex, creative problem solving. The method combines sociological inquiry methods, sustainability strategies, systems and design thinking tools, which, together, can be employed to develop strategic creative systems interventions that enact social and sustainable change.
Anyone, anywhere, can make change – no matter how big or small their sphere of influence may be. This method provides a process for doing it, as it guides people through the process of exploring and understanding problems, identifying strategic points of intervention, ideating, prototyping solutions, and ultimately getting their change-making provocations out into the world.
Circular Systems Design
How do we all contribute to designing a future that works better for all of us? By transitioning our products, businesses, governments, and communities to a circular and regenerative future by design. We can all see the system failures of a reductive and linear approach to meeting human needs, so now is the time to use our creative capacity to challenge the status quo, to design products and services that maintain and increase value over time, to create a post-disposable future, and to activate a positive contribution to this beautiful planet we all share. This forth handbook in the Make Change series by Leyla Acaroglu defines the key tools of Circular Systems Design, systems thinking, life cycle thinking and product service systems models.
Design Systems Change
The movement toward a circular and regenerative economy is well underway, and this handbook is here to help anyone discover how they, too, can design systems change for a positive future. The decision to be involved in change, be it in your personal or professional life, starts by discovering how to activate your personal agency, identifying the sphere of influence you uniquely hold and then actioning your creative potential to engage with change. The core content in the handbook, the fifth in a series on how to make positive impactful change, offers a practical roadmap for activating a career as a creative changemaker by design.
The UnSchool of Disruptive Design
Founded in 2014, The UnSchool of Disruptive Design has been a force for positive change for a decade, equipping tens of thousands of global change-makers with the tools for activating change.
This special edition compendium combines five handbooks written by founder Leyla Acaroglu and shares what’s needed for anyone, anywhere, to make positive impacts through their life and work. Revitalized with updated introductions, revamped and new graphics, and fresh perspectives throughout, The UnSchool of Disruptive Design is a collection of positively disruptive ideas and frameworks for creating social and environmental impact—your companion to building a future that works better for us all.
