Design Thinking for the End of the World: Slide Deck

Introduction

A few months ago I shared the proposal for a talk titled Design Thinking for the End of the World that was fortunately accepted by the Colorado Emergency Conference. The short description from the conference materials is provided below.

This presentation brings together storytelling, design thinking, and complexity as it discusses approaching the difficult challenges facing Colorado’s emergency management community. Focused on problem framing, storytelling is explored as a key step in engaging with complex issues while the audience is invited to think about the stories they are currently telling about problems and consider how they might begin to craft different ones.

Just before stepping up to the podium moderator Ashlee Delventhal asked if I would be shedding some light on what I meant by the "End of the World" as it seemed ominous. The truth of the matter is that I am not great at naming presentations. On the other hand, I wanted to in some way capture the feel of the pre…