Category: SID degree programme
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Breaking the glass ceilings
Women entrepreneurships days seminar 19.11.2020 “I don’t mind, I don’t mind…” sings a beautiful brown-haired woman on a screen. “Tools for breaking the glass ceiling-seminar” is about to start. WED- seminar (Women entrepreneurship day) is international event trying to raise the awareness of equality and women rights. As all events this fall, this is also…
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Designing your own way with design thinking
Making career choices when you’re 18 years old can be cumbersome. The childhood dream jobs, being a doctor or a policeman, probably have changed multiple times leaving you uncertain about what the future will look like. So, what does it take to find your dream job? As we started out journey in the SID program…
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Fail like a designer
Our image of the world is built on assumptions and schemas. Without them, our everyday life would feel chaotic and quite burdensome. However, in an innovation process, our assumptions mainly work against us. They keep us from thinking outside the box. You could even say that assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. Without intentionally…
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Design Thinking for non-Design Thinkers
Today the world around us is continuously evolving and companies must be flexible and able to adapt to changes in society. Therefore, companies are testing new business logics and models to solve wicked social and business problems.
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Letting go of your prejudices (while staying inside that thinking box)
by Miia Lemola & Ekaterina Nikitina Design Thinking workshop and concomitant readings have given us a lot of inspiration. However, it has also activated inner critics in us. We would like to share our thoughts about prejudices and limitations in creative thinking. Creativity – a gift or a skill? In the workshop, we were thrown…
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My first touch with design thinking and why it was so difficult to write about it
The journey of writing this blog post I have written this blog post so many times and felt so insecure and confused what to write about. The assignment for the Design Thinking course was to read couple of articles and books and reflect on your own learnings. Over and over again, I have read my…
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Can we save the world by unblocking our creativity?
As the problems we are facing as humankind are getting more all-encompassing and complex, the need for human superpowers like empathy and creativity is ever increasing.
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Sustainable future is based on design thinking
I experienced a small revolution in my mind when I participated the Design Thinking course held by Katja Tschimmel in Laurea 2019. It grew even bigger after reading the book Creative Confidence by Tom and David Kelley and the Design Thinking article by Tim Brown. In the end, I realized that attempts to make this…
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Is Design Thinking the right approach for every development project?
Heljä FranssilaFirst-year SID student and comms professional The first three-day study phase focusing on the basics of Design Thinking left me inspired, yet somewhat confused. When going back home after our last day together, I could not help wondering if design thinking really is a method we can use for every development project. Under the…
