Teachers: Share this page with your students at (or before) the start of the workshop.
Students: Please read the introductory information, watch the video, and get ready for a week that you'll never forget.
Students: Please read the introductory information, watch the video, and get ready for a week that you'll never forget.
DESIGN THINKING PROCESS
What makes a great designer? According to IDEO founder David Kelley, who gave the TED Talks “Human-centered design” and “How to build your creative confidence,” being an incredible designer isn’t necessarily about having a great aesthetic sensibility or coming up with out-of-the-box ideas. No, Kelley says that the key characteristic is empathy. “Be empathetic,” Kelley tells Charlie Rose in an episode of 60 Minutes that aired in 2013. “Try to understand what people really value.” |
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2015 challenge: design ThE perfect study space
2000 square feet ... $100,000 budget...Go Dons!
The University has received a generous endowment from a prominent alumnus who wishes to see it spent on designing an innovative and state-of-the-art study space. The Board of Trustees agreed to repurpose an unused space to build this student lounge. Three teams of students from various majors and diverse academic levels will be put to the challenge of investigating, researching, defining, ideating, prototyping, testing, and pitching their design ideas in just five days. The framework of design thinking will be used to drive the design process.
Meet the Faculty
Faculty experts from across disciplines will lead each stage. The departments that are represented for each stage are:
- Empathy: Anthropology, Sociology
- Define: Communications Studies, Rhetoric
- Ideate: Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Legal Studies, Design, Rhetoric
- Prototype: Design, Arts
- Test: Anthropology, Sociology, Communications Studies, Rhetoric, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Legal Studies, Design, Architecture, and Arts
The University has received a generous endowment from a prominent alumnus who wishes to see it spent on designing an innovative and state-of-the-art study space. The Board of Trustees agreed to repurpose an unused space to build this student lounge. Three teams of students from various majors and diverse academic levels will be put to the challenge of investigating, researching, defining, ideating, prototyping, testing, and pitching their design ideas in just five days. The framework of design thinking will be used to drive the design process.
Meet the Faculty
Faculty experts from across disciplines will lead each stage. The departments that are represented for each stage are:
- Empathy: Anthropology, Sociology
- Define: Communications Studies, Rhetoric
- Ideate: Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Legal Studies, Design, Rhetoric
- Prototype: Design, Arts
- Test: Anthropology, Sociology, Communications Studies, Rhetoric, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Legal Studies, Design, Architecture, and Arts