Category: Futures Thinking
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The Problem Behind the Problem: From Classroom Experiments to Strategic Innovation
What if innovation begins not with finding a solution, but with asking the right question? Reflecting on our design thinking sessions, this blog explores how understanding people’s needs, challenging assumptions, and turning ideas into prototypes can lead to more meaningful and innovative solutions.
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Discovering Design Thinking: Creativity, Complexity and Innovation
By Abhishek Gupta and Phoolmaya Dimdung Tamang Laurea Experience The experience of our first couple of days at Laurea on 1st and 2nd Oct was very peculiar one as it was the first time for us to be at Laurea and we were starting our journey with SID masters. As international students, we got introduced…
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Extreme Group in Action: Transforming Student Challenges into Service Solutions
Written by: Sagar Shrestha and Rupa Kumari Thapa 1.Introduction The contact sessions held on 1–2 October 2026 provide an opportunity to explore how this approach can be applied in practice. Are you sure the “idea” currently in our mind is the best we can do? How will we implement those ideas to design a service…
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Does AI Make Us More Creative or Just Faster?
Written by Iryna Ilyuchyk & Tanjid Hossain During our Design Thinking workshop, Katja Tschimmel introduced the idea of Design Thinking 4.0, where humans and AI work together in the creative process. We agreed not to use AI during ideation. We first explored the problem and generated ideas ourselves, while AI was allowed later, during prototyping.…
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We Thought We Understood Design Thinking-Then Reality Hit
written by Ujeli Bhattarai & Bharat Gautam. We were wondering how well Design Thinking can be learned in a classroom. Can hands on practice really prepare us for using it in the world? This question was on our mind during our two day Design Thinking workshop on 9-10 March. We got an introduction to the…
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Embracing change at the Service Design Global Conference 2020
The international community, Service Design Network (SDN), founded in 2004, arranged an online conference focusing on service design in October of 2020.
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The Era of Disruption as an Innovation Enabler — How to Spot and Scan Trends to Kick-Start the Change?
The future takes time to build, and each day is an opportunity to reflect on and plan for the next day From the Playbook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation by Carleton et al. 2013 The global pandemic outbreak in spring 2020 is continuing to disrupt markets, organizations and even our behaviours. As changes, new needs,…
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10 Days to Make a Change — What I Learned from the Cross-European Virtual Hackathon
Using design and online collaboration to address challenges as a result of global COVID-19 outbreak As in spring 2020 we were experiencing nearly a global lockdown, I was searching for opportunities to collaborate with others virtually and contribute to the vast societal challenges that were taken place. After worrying news related to pandemic, I felt…
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today – Malcolm X
Wouldn’t it be great to know what the future holds for us? Particularly in the difficult times we are currently living, it’s easy to wish we’d know what the world looks like in six months or a year. This of course isn’t possible, but futures thinking provides a framework for us to foresee what possible…
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