Tag: education

  • Setting the stage for creative freedom

    Setting the stage for creative freedom

    By Heidi Aho, Shahida Parvin, & Eduardo Solorzano Tejeda. Design Thinking (DT) and Innovation require a lot of creativity. Creativity is often described as a spark of inspiration, but it is far more complex and deeply human. It happens at the intersection of emotions, environments, and culture. To truly nurture creativity, we need to look…

  • Wicked Design – The value added by Design Thinking from an economic context , and into times of crisis. 

    Wicked Design – The value added by Design Thinking from an economic context , and into times of crisis. 

    by Andre Vicentini and Juliet Leal-Ruokonen In our course Design Thinking we understood the wide range context meaning of design that is becoming increasingly relevant in innovation management (Mauroner and Warnke  2020, p. 924) as compared to the business’ traditional understanding of design that is only applied to creation and development of products and services,…

  • Design Thinking – A Catalyst for Innovation

    Design Thinking – A Catalyst for Innovation

    Gayatri Mishra and Laura-Augustina Avram These are some questions that were addressed at the workshop on Design Thinking (DT) held by Katja Tschimmel. The class was introduced to design, DT and creativity to help build a design centric mindset. Then we learned how to apply this knowledge and transform insights and ideas into actionable statements…

  • Design Thinking For Management Education

    “What’s in for me?”, the manager asks. “Anything”, we answered. “It depends on how we find it”. In terms of developing or dealing with the new in increasingly complex interdependencies and the capability to integrate various perspectives in the decision-making process, Design Thinking (DT) implies the potential to become a great asset for any organization.…

  • Can Design Thinking help you write better course assignments and finish them quicker?

    The looming sense of anxiety passes through me when I think of a course assignment that needs to be written. I have never seen myself as much of a writer and have always struggled to match the needed quota of words. Could Design Thinking help in finding a better way to approach course assignments so…

  •   A story about Swiss Mountains, Children and the Need for Design Thinking in Education I would like to tell you a story about my younger son. He just turned five years old a week ago and has an older broder who will turn seven at the end of this month. From time to time…

  • At the Footprints of Nobel Winners – Cambridge Venture Camp 2017

    Hello, We are three Master´s Degree students from Laurea Tikkurila where we are studying in a program called “Future Studies and Customer Oriented Services”. Last autumn we participated in a course ”Digitaalisen palvelun käyttäjäkeskeinen suunnittelu” and there we started to develop a business idea for a digital application called ”Big Steps for Little People”, and with that…

  • Will Design Thinking disrupt Education?

    Chances are if you didn’t go to design school (or don’t have a career in design) you believe you have absolutely no clue what Design Thinking is. But when one starts analysing how they create solutions, they are likely to recognise similarities with this now superpop method. Innovation by Design Thinking follows patterns similar to…

  • Learning Design thinking – did I do it right?

    That was my main concern during the Design Thinking course. Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valença familiarized us with practical Design Thinking. Katja gave us introduction to design thinking, its background, literature and visual models for design thinking process. We familiarized ourselves better with The Mindshake Design thinking model: Evolution 62. The two days of studying…

  • Playfull innovation

    Play has evolved as an advantageous and necessary aspect of behaviour. Why is it then that we so often leave it on other side of the office door? (Michlewski & Buchanan, 2016) The power of Design Thinking Design Thinking is as a creative way of thinking which leads to transformation and evolution of new forms…