What inspirations do I steal from Sunday church services for my Service Design classes?

What inspirations do I steal from Sunday church services for my Service Design classes?

In short: people who can make a Sunday church service interesting taught me a few formats for teaching:

  • Object lessons: use object interactions to exemplify a complicated topic or idea.

  • Mix of formats: change every 20 minutes the format

  • Stations : let people move from one station to another for self directed learning with different exercises.

  • Rituals : repeat certain informations or practices again and again.

four illustrations showing object lessons - mix of formats - stations - rituals

I love stealing inspiration from unrelated fields. Sunday services and how church communities are designed offer for me many ideas on how to make service Design teaching more interesting. If today pastors manage to get people to come church when there are many other fun things to do and no obligations there is definitely something to steal.

I've written more details about these things that I steal and adapt for Service Design education. Here a few of these articles:

  • Object lessons:

  • Mix of formats:

  • Stations:

  • Rituals:

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