Tag: Student Stories

  • Listening Before Building

    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…

  • From Tools to Confidence – Learning Design Thinking by Doing It Together

    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.

  • Who can be a designer?

    Who can be a designer?

    Reflections on empathy and inclusion in the design field By Rosa Yang and Stinne Vognæs Neither of us are designers, so what does it mean to do a part-time service design degree as an adult? Will we ever be able to claim the “title” or “identity” of a Designer? After our first two-day workshop on…