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Designercise Ideation Creative Workout

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Chelsea, Manhattan
601 W 26th St
Btwn 11th & 12th Avenues
New York, New York 10001
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Class Level: All levels
Age Requirements: 18 and older
Average Class Size: 18
Teacher: Leyla Acaroglu

What you'll learn in this brainy class:

Designercise is the brain workout session for flexible, creative and agile thinking!
 
Join us for a mental workout and ideation session to beat the afternoon brain drains! Designercise Ideation Workouts are quick productive distractions into your afternoon brain slump! Learn mental workout tools that flex your brain through fun and fast paced ideation techniques. Our boredom busting brain experiences develop critical and flexible thinking skills, explore rapid ideation and help brighten up your grey matter!

With a ‘use it or lose it approach’ to our grey matter, we have developed a series of techniques to bust boredom, stimulate creative thought and refine your problem solving skills.

Designercise is a mental workout and ideation process for stretching your thought patterns and building mental flexibility for maximum cognitive prowess. At a Designercise workout you get to massage, stretch and tone your thinking, ideation and solutioning capabilities.


What do you get out of Designercise session?

 
  • Invigorate your brain and heighten your productivity
  • Learn ideation processes for quick evaluations and idea generations
  • Collaborate with strangers, solving problems, making solutions
  • Understand decision making though interconnected thought systems
  • Disassemble established ideas and put them back together in better ways 
  • Figure out your cause and effect in our social and environmental systems
  • Make better decisions

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Designercise Ideation Creative Workout
Reviewed by lauren C. on 8/31/2015
Great energy from the girls, fun, provocative, different!
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School: Un-School of Disruptive Design

Un-School of Disruptive Design

The Un-School of Disruptive Design, founded on 1914, is a design advocacy startup that runs events and classes to challenge the way people view and react to the world for positive social change.

The Un-School is a living gallery and experimental knowledge lab that evolves through the contributions of...

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