Tag: innovation
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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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Understanding Design Thinking as a Strategic Innovative Tools
By Sharmila Hamal and Archana Chudal We are very much excited about workshop of Design Thinking which was held on Oct 1st and 2nd .There is a truly great and important start up with Laurea SID, where we learn about actually how design thinking goes practically. Through out the whole sessions we learn to collaborate…
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Step In & Step Out – What We Learnt About Real Problems Using Design Thinking
By Deepesh Khadka, Uma Dhakal Gautam & Rajesh Kumar Shah | Design Thinking Masterclass – 1-2 October 2026 – Lecturer: Elif Öztekin, Laurea University of Applied Sciences. Have you ever had a perfect plan for your project, only for everything to change? Well we have! But after completing two days of Design Thinking at Laurea we…
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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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Listening Before Building
By Chiranjivi Roka & Shojan Shrestha We walked into lecturer Elif Öztekin’s masterclass on 1 October, we had only a rough idea of design and no clear expectations for the session.. We thought design thinking was mainly about designers and their methods and tools for their product, but we did not fully understand what it…
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What If the Best Innovation Begins with a Question, Not an Answer?
When Finding the Right Answer Is Not Enough. We tend to approach problems with the expectation that there is a right answer. What happens when a problem has no single right answer at all? That was the central question of Katja Tschimmel’s Design Thinking masterclass. Rather than seeing innovation as a race to a solution,…
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From Tools to Confidence – Learning Design Thinking by Doing It Together
We started the course with different ideas about Design Thinking and ended with a much broader understanding of it. Through hands-on exercises, teamwork and reflection, we learned how empathy, experimentation and collaboration can turn uncertainty into learning, ideas and new possibilities.
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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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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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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…
