Dear students,
We are very much looking forward to our Design Thinking PDC on 12th and 13th of November 2022! The course will take place at the Hertie School and run from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm on both days.
As you already know from the course description on MyStudies, you will have to prepare some readings before the PDC.
These are the manadatory readings:
HPI: What is Design Thinking
https://hpi-academy.de/en/design-thinking/what-is-design-thinking.html
SAP: Introduction to Design Thinking
https://blogs.sap.com/2012/09/12/introduction-to-design-thinking/
(Please read the following sections: What Is Design Thinking? including the answers, Attributes of Design Thinking, Characteristics of Design Thinkers, A Brief Look at the History of Design Thinking)
>> Please familiarize yourself with one of the following case studies (of your choice)
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Dough Dietz case
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Reading Material "From Design Thinking to Creative Confidence":https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration/from-design-thinking-to-creative-confidence
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Ted Talk "Transforming healthcare for children and their families: Doug Dietz at TEDxSanJoseCA 2012":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jajduxPD6H4
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HIV protection case
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"Marrying Empathy and Science to Spread Impact":https://ssir.org/articles/entry/marrying_empathy_and_science_to_spread_impact
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Embrace infant warmer case
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Reading Material "A Solution for Poor Mothers, When Expensive Hospital Incubators Won’t Do":https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/11/embrace-infant-warmer-creative-confidence-by-tom-and-david-kelley.html
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Ted Talk "A warm embrace that saves lives":https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_chen_a_warm_embrace_that_saves_lives?
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On another note: Physical prototyping is an important part of Design Thinking.
To be more environmentally friendly, we would like to ask you to collect trash over the upcoming days and bring it to the course. Interesting materials could be: Paper boxes, special foils, paper of various colors, magazines and such alike.
If you have any question in the meantime, please feel free to contact us:
sarah.fasbender@d-network.org
veronika.mohr.innovation@gmail.com
See you on November 12th!
Veronika & Sarah