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THINK, ACT AND GENERATE: Steps Ahead in Design Thinking at LAUREA
written by :- Partiva Madai and Praveen Thapa Class started with participation. We started working in team, forming different groups. Simple works were assigned to each group. We started thinking, making notes and picturising friends while introducing and equal participation was followed. This was a beginning of shaping mindset to think, visualise and sticky notes…
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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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From Sticky Notes to Real Understanding: Our First Steps in Design Thinking
By Santosh Lamichhane and Arun Khadka Starting point: What is design thinking?Before the course, we thought design thinking was about making things look nice. We also thought it meant sticky notes and brainstorming. On 1–2 October, Elif Öztekin (2026) showed us it is much more. It is a way of thinking and working, and it…
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I Came In Oblivious. I Left With Something Worth It.
By Aditya Rai I walked into Prof. Katja Tschimmel’s masterclass on 4 September not knowing what to expect. Design thinking was a phrase I’d heard, not something I understood. I left with something worth it, and something I needed. Walking in Blind The session got practical fast. Paired with random classmates, we interviewed each other…
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From Shared Experiences to an App: Our Design Thinking Journey
By Michael Sylvia and Laxmi Khatri Shrestha It began with storytelling and listening(Empathy) In our first group exercise, Katja Tschimmel showed us how universal questions created common ground among diverse people from all over the world. We learned about each other and where we started on our paths that led to Espoo. Each question told…
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From Tools to Mindset: What Two Days of Design Thinking Taught Us
Written by: Md Shanaullah Shihab & Pratiksha Ghimire Design Thinking | Reflection | Learning The contact sessions on 4–5 September gave us an opportunity to look at Design Thinking (DT) not simply as a collection of tools, but as a different way of understanding and approaching challenges. The discussions, learning activities, and reflections helped us…
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Shifting Together: How we learned to reframe problems in 2 days
by Andreia Pais da Cunha & Sayef Md Uddin We usually associate Design Thinking with sticky notes and frenetic brainstorming, but our two‑day course with Katja Tschimmel showed us it is a deliberate mindset. It helps us reframe situations, look at problems from different angles, and explore possibilities we don’t see at first or never,…
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What Do Groceries and Shoes Have to Do with Design Thinking?
Written by: Olukayode Adebiyi & Kirsti Earl Our design thinking journey began from different perspectives. During Laurea’s second-phase admission process, we took part in a group discussion about how artificial intelligence is shaping our world. Kirsti saw many possibilities in AI while also noting that how we use it matters. Olukayode was more cautious about…
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From Idea to Prototype: How AI Supported Innovation During a Hackathon
Introduction A hackathon is a time-bound, collaborative event where people gather to rapidly develop solutions to a defined problem (Briscoe & Mulligan, 2014). Originally a mostly tech-oriented format, hackathons have expanded beyond the technology sector and are now widely applied across many fields, including education, healthcare, and social innovation. What was once a space for…
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From Confusion to Creation: Our Design Thinking Journey at Laurea
–Niraj Adhikari and Jay Naresh Chaudhary What happens when you walk into a class with no clear task—and walk out having built a service prototype? That was exactly our experience during two intensive and eye-opening days in the Design Thinking and Creativity course at Laurea University. At first, the ambiguity was uncomfortable. There were no…
