The Rocky Path to Success

Introducing Team Euphoria. A team composed of Jon Axford, Emma Berger, Mj Laurel, Kirstyn Valentine and Marisa Wong, with the goal of ensuring that individuals experience euphoria while participating in our experiment. Team Euphoria’s design journey has not been easy. We knew what we wanted to accomplish, but we were having trouble in finding the right way to exhibit that while also emphasizing the newcomer and immigrant experience.

The world cafe- style sit downs that we had with professionals helped provide insight and helped us navigate through our design process. They asked questions in regard to our topic of “Belonging” to ensure that the experience leaves a positive impact, while also allowing us to learn more about the subject through the participants. The world cafe sit downs, admittingly made us more confused at one point, as there were so many good ideas coming from a multitude of individuals. At the end of the day the biggest takeaway that we got was to “trust our gut”!

We designed a systems map that would involve organizations that could be funders, sources for testers or client sources in order to better understand the ecosystem and where our experiment would hold value. We also wanted to ensure that the experiment was as interactive as possible, posing different activities while staying within the topic and navigating through different lenses. After multiple pivots, as can be seen on the Design Brief screenshot below, Team Euphoria is happy to announce that our design has been approved with only some minor tweaks to be done!

-Team Euphoria-