DSD Workshops
Our collection of workshops covers a wide range of possibilities for decentralised service design. Start with the DSD Fundamentals to map out the basics and progress to specialised topics as you build your understanding.
DSD Fundamentals
Master the fundamentals of decentralised service design through 8 core activities. Learn to identify actors, map relationships, define capabilities, build use cases, and explore the possibilities of decentralisation.
Key Outcomes:
- New values identified within your context ecosystem
- Use cases defined for your decentralised service
- Understand the dynamics of new decentralised services
Workshop Details:
Learn The FundamentalsNFT Keyrings
Use a keying metaphor to explore how NFTs can support digital asset ownership, membership models, and token-gated experiences.
Key Outcomes:
- Understand potential of non-fungible assets to support ownership within decentralised service design
- Understand the user perspective, identify new values that ownership of decentralised assets provides
- Develop your decentralised service design that supports ownership
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Coming SoonBlockExchange
An excellent icebreaker, providing experiences of decentralised trading using Blockchain, through tangible materials representing Blockchain technology.
Key Outcomes:
- Experience "defamiliarisation" of fiat currency and market conditions
- Understand blockchain basics through tangible materials
- Understand trading relationships within your decentralised service
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Coming SoonIf This Then What?
Master the art of designing smart contract logic. This workshop uses a card set for participants to assemble tangible smart contracts, encouraging programmatic thinking and considering the consequences of automation.
Key Outcomes:
- Develop programatic thinking skills
- Consider possibilities for automation for your decentralised service
- Smart contracts for your service defined in simple terms
- Oracles, trusted data sources and certifiers identified
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Coming SoonDecentralised Media Licensing
Zoom in on a media object, or digital asset, to explore intentions and stipulations around its onwards use. Then with NFTs in mind as the supporting technology, licences are created and shared for re-use.
Key Outcomes:
- Developed understanding of digital ownership and re-use
- Provenance mapping for your digital assets
- Re-use conditions and license tokens for your digital assets defined in simple terms
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Explore Media LicensingPizza Block
Be the machine! Use a game-like set of activities and resources to experience a self sovereign identity (SSI) system, and grasp how zero knowledge proof (ZKP) supports identity and reputation management in the future of work. Plus... make pizza! Requires some creativity and preparation to get set-up.
Key Outcomes:
- Understand validation in decentralised systems
- Experience the value of ZNT and SSI
- Experience the application of SSI to the future of work
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Coming SoonAttaching Strings
Creative exploration of actor relationships and governance structures through tangible materials and mapping. Great for working with a diverse team.
Key Outcomes:
- Detailed understanding of stakeholder relationships, power balances and responsibilities
- Collaboratively produced representations of governance structures
- Shared understanding of stakeholder relationships and governance structures
- Groundwork for multi-party understanding and agreements
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Coming SoonWorkshop Techniques
How to Use These Workshops
These workshop methods are designed to be used with small or large groups, and they are particularly good when bringing people with diverse backgrounds together around shared challenges. Each workshop is designed to be flexible and adaptable to your needs:
- Team Workshops: Facilitate group sessions with your team
- Client Projects: Apply activities to real-world projects
- Educational Settings: Teach DSD in courses and training programs
Materials You'll Need
- These workshops are designed for cheap and easy to access and use materials
- All paper-based materials are provided in easy to print formats, for you to adapt and print as required
- Worksheets are designed for print at A2 size for use with standard post-it notes. We encourage the use of post-it to facilitate involvement of all team members; ideas can be easily added, removed or moved around as the conversation progresses
- Any other materials required are cheap and easy to source - these are listed with individual workshops
- Links to bespoke Miro boards are provided to support online workshops (see https://miro.com for access to free Miro online collaboration tool)
Adapting Methods to Your Requirements
- These workshops are designed for you to adapt to fit the needs of your project
- All workshop methods have a series of steps, to speed up a workshop some steps can be skipped, shortened or completed in advance of the workshop. Extend or repeat key steps to explore in greater depth
- Worksheets and slide designs are simple. You can add your branding, and coloured graphics to tailor them to your context
- Some instructions include terms or examples that are context or sector specific, update these to match your sector
- More advanced adaptations can be made to alter the workshop activities e.g. developing new activity steps or unique metaphors. Ideas for how to do this are provided with each workshop
Tips for Success
- Start with the Fundamentals workshop before moving to specialized topics
- Allocate enough time - rushing reduces quality of insights
- Include diverse perspectives in your workshop groups
- Document everything - insights are valuable for future reference
- Iterate - revisit activities as your project evolves
Questions About Workshops?
Feel free to get in touch with us if you need guidance on selecting or designing the right workshop for your needs.
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