The JoyCorps Studio
Connection. Curiosity. Creativity
JC Studio works with NGOs, businesses, and venture builders embedded within the communities most marginalized by our current global systems, and therefore vulnerable to exploitation. We collaborate with these local leaders to re-imagine and design for a future that celebrates each individual's innate personhood.
Utilizing design thinking methodologies, JC Studio offers research, strategy design and comprehensive problem and stakeholder mapping services that help our clients co-design solutions involving a broad spectrum of community engagement.
Building on JoyCorps’ 20+ years of experience in venture building and with a predominantly India based team, we specialize in facilitating a collaborative, grassroots approach to problem-solving that gently holds space and cultivates intention for those overwhelmed by complexity, to design and implement hopeful, place-based solutions.
Organisations We’ve Collaborated With…
“The design thinking helps address complex problems in a way that isn’t being done elsewhere and holds one of the only solutions for actually solving some of those problems.”
- Doug Liljegren
“People have been given certain abilities and understandings and they've been placed in certain environments where they want to make a difference. They want to impact the world around them. And you're helping us to articulate ways to do so.”
- Erika Glenn, Global Orphan
How We Work
Wicked Problems
Constantly changing, interconnected, unique and engaging multiple stakeholders - are some of the factors that define a wicked problem. We work with leaders and organisations who are working to design and implement solutions to these complex problems.
Design Thinking
Dynamic problems need a dynamic approach to address them. At the studio we use design thinking as our primary methodology. Encouraging the organisations we work with to discover, define, develop and deliver alongside those most effected by the problem.
Systems Practice
Mapping is a tool that we engage at the start of each project, allowing us to include a diverse array of stakeholder voices, understand both the opportunities and challenges connected to the problem and then identify patterns from chaos!
What does a workshop involve…
At the Studio we care deeply about designing workshops that are unique and tailored to the context of the participants. In the video below, Josie from the Studio team talks through a workshop designed for a group of entrepreneurs based in India.
The workshop uses a design thinking framework called the ‘double diamond’ to journey with the entrepreneurs through a process of innovation.
The video covers four phases ‘discover’, ‘define’, ‘develop’ and ‘deliver’; watch the whole video or jump to the chapter that captures your interest.
If you’d be interested in the Studio team facilitating a workshop for you and/or your team, we would love to connect and share further details.
Engage With Our Work…
Across all our projects we work with leaders and organisations who are tackling issues of vulnerability and exploitation within their communities. One area of focus has been the wicked problem of Human Trafficking in Nepal; of which we have worked alongside two local Nepali organisations, supporting them in overcoming the challenge of community reintegration, with a focus on designing employment and entrepreneurial pathways.
Learn more about our approach to tackling the challenge of ‘Reintegration for survivors of human trafficking in Nepal’
If this is a specific area of interest or expertise for you, we would love to hear from you and share a digital copy of the full length report.
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