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Item City of North Saint Paul Public Art Report(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2014) Davis, Sarah; Loberg, Katie; Theiler, Kelli; Vongsay, SaymoukdaThis project was completed as part of the 2013-2014 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of North St. Paul. Formerly home to an active arts council, the City of North St. Paul was interested in engaging residents around public art planning. Project lead Jon Fure worked with Virajita Singh’s LS 5100: Design Thinking course to identify strategies for engaging residents in the public art planning process. The students used design thinking strategies to get residents involved and create a stronger sense of community in the city. The final report is available.Item Redesigning Individual Wellness Potential and Behavior in American Culture(2016-12) Davis, SarahIn America, the concept of wellness can be observed and interpreted in various ways, producing a “disconnect” between intentions and commitment to action. This thesis uses a Whole Systems Thinking Approach to explore the reasons behind the disconnect by deconstructing individual wellness potential as a system. Design thinking will then be used to reconstruct parts of that system in order to reduce or avoid the disconnect. Systems thinking helps us understand the connections between parts in a system and how they work together. Design thinking creates an opportunity to embrace self-awareness and aids in selecting elements for the feedback loops needed to strengthen our potential for wellness.