Adventures in Design Thinking is an experiential workshop being offered to all Stanford graduate students through the Stanford Graduate Institute and the d.school (officially the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford).
This week-long hands-on project-based workshop will complement what you are learning in your department, preparing you to lead innovation and design thinking in teams at Stanford and in your career beyond. It is based on our experience with many years of courses on Design Thinking in the Design Division, which have grown and extended to the new cross-departmental d.school which began this year. The teaching staff will include the d.school faculty along with innovators and guest experts from a variety of design firms and innovative companies.
The workshop activities will introduce you to the methods of design thinking that go into the d.school courses on topics such as Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability, Software Design Experiences , and Designing Liberation Technologies. In these courses the skills you will be learning in the workshop are applied to solving significant real-world problems.
We welcome graduate students from all disciplines who want to cross the boundaries between technology, business, and human values, and are open to exploring ways of thinking that emphasize creativity, action, and prototyping. Through a series of hands-on exercises and projects you will learn the motivations and methods of design thinking and see how they can apply to the projects you care about.
Topics will include human-centered design, discovery processes, prototyping, radical collaboration, design communication, and entrepreneurship. These experiences are designed to enhance each participant's abilities to better deal with academic, career, and life issues. The workshop will be a forum for learning that prepares you for real-world innovation. It will be uniquely fun and uniquely d.school. Last year's students gave it two thumbs up!
Enrollment is limited to 30 students. We will select students to assure a good balance of skills and backgrounds, and within that will give priority to those applying first.
The course will begin on the afternoon of Sunday Sept. 11 and early afternoon on Friday Sept. 16. There will be activities all day each day, and some of the evenings. We will be providing food during sessions, and will not be providing housing.
The course is for students currently registered in graduate programs at Stanford, who will be continuing in the Fall. There is no fee for the course.
Teaching Team :
Charlotte Burgess-Auburn, d.school
Aleta Hayes, Department of Drama and Dance
Bernie Roth , Design Division, Mechanical Engineering
Tina Seelig, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Terry Winograd, Computer Science