In this stage of our process we are exploring potential prototypes for a solution that could solve our challenge.

I’ve been toiling lately – looking for perspectives on our challenge that we might be missing, to fully pursue any solutions.  We are tasked with increasing the appliance of critical thinking and philosophy in schools, here in Catalonia. A thought that has been reoccurring in regards to our challenge however – is the notion of motive. 
Before one sets out to execute any action, one must of course first examine the likelihood of various outcomes, but equally important – and potentially often neglected – is the investigation of internal motives. As it turns out this might be rather hard. Because, from the perspective of most people – their actions are mostly good, or at least meant to be. In a lot of doctrines, the motivation to do good, outweighs the resulted good of the action. Your personal intention with your – for example, charitable gift – is more or as important as the consequential effect of that action. From this perspective there is no need to investigate the motives of your social entrepreneurial endeavour, one would only need to follow one's ethical and moral compass – to the best of one’s ability – and act accordingly. Simply put: You discover something unfair or morally unacceptable, and you make a calculated action in order to uproot the injustice.
However, from a utilitarian perspective – your intentions have nothing to do with the matter. They are simply irrelevant to the outcome, which is only measured in its utility. The only way to measure the successfulness of any action is in the ratio of good vs. bad it causes to the people it effects. “Utility is the sum of all pleasure that results from an action, minus the suffering of anyone involved in the action” – as described by Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism. Of course, there are some extremer and some more moderate doctrines within this worldview, mostly depending on the scope of time one wishes to focus on.
Going back to my initial call for an investigation of motives – I think the first question one needs to answer – is from which of these to perspectives one is acting. Our group collectively most align – are we operating solely guided by our inner moral compass or have we made a thorough utilitarian analysis of the outcome we wish to achieve. If we truly wish to pursue a thorough investigation of utility, we most first fully understand what we hope to inspire the use of. Can we be sure that Critical Thinking & Philosophy truly has the potential of a utilitarian surplus of good to the world – an undisputed abundance of potential usefulness to the people of the world? Being somewhat versed – though still a mere novice in the study of philosophy – I cannot myself answer that question. A prototype of any sort – must be a prototype that itself proves the qualities of philosophy & Critical thinking. The answer which we hope to give must be self-evident of its utilitarian abundance – or it will be an imposing of unexplored or misunderstood values. All this might be useless or confusing thoughts – the benefits of philosophy & Critical thinking might be self-evident. They have stood the test of time, but so has a lot of utilitarian negative human behaviours. In the end, we might be lucky – it turned out to have a higher ratio of good, but are we comfortable with that gamble?