A bit of context: why I'm playing with objects

My wife is a pastor and she is an inspiration. For many years she has worked with children. That's something you can clearly see in her preaching style. she often uses object lessons. She makes her preaching tangible with objects and interactions. For a sermon about priorities in life she would fill a jar with stores of different sizes to show that you have to put the important first. Otherwise it doesn't get all in.

These objects lesson often make something complex tangible and memorable. So obviously I wanted to try this in my classes.

The for, with, by sandwich

To make the difference between design made for people, design made with people and design made by people I used a sandwich object lesson.

• Design For: An "expert" was tasked to design a sandwich for a citizen based on what she already knew
• Design By: A citizen was tasked to design her own favorite sandwich
• Design With: A second expert was tasked to ask two questions to the citizen, based on this this expert designed a first version of the sandwich, then showed it and got two pieces of feedback from the citizen. The expert then made a second version of the sandwich.

After that the sandwiches designs were revealed. and could be used to show the difference between these three design approaches.