HPI d–school

📣 Our next d-talk, part of our Design Thinking Studios, will take place soon. This time, Kim Dabbs, vice president of ESG and social innovation at Steelcase, will speak on the topic “Designing for Better Futures.”   🎙️ Kim Dabbs is a global leader in the area of Belonging and Purpose. She is a thought leader, best-selling author, and speaker. She has a passion for building cultures of belonging and is leveraging that mindset as she partners with organizations leading transformational change projects around the world. Her personal experience and professional history focus on helping leaders, organizations, and communities with the tools to create a more equitable and inclusive world. She presents internationally on Belonging and Impact at venues such as the Guggenheim, the Aspen Institute and TEDx and her latest book 📚, You Belong Here, was just named as a top book to read by the Financial Times.   👇 Register for online or on-site participation. Upon registration, you will receive the link for online participation. The d-talk will be held in English.   We are looking forward to meeting you at d-school. 🎉 Dr. Claudia Nicolai Thomas Grundnigg Sherif Osman Jochen Nünning

We had a great "talk from the heart" with Helen van Baal, Global Venture Lead IKEA. 🎬 Moderated by Dr. Claudia Nicolai, Helen gave us insight into how design thinking and her studies at d-school helped her approach things differently in her job at IKEA.   First, there is prototyping ✂. It helps her and her team do things from scratch super-fast. It gives people something to touch, and they say: Oh, that’s what you are talking about.” Secondly, Helen considers being comfortable with uncertainty 🏄 very helpful for pursuing innovation more freely in the corporate world. Both aspects are central learning experiences in the d-school's design thinking programs.   In that respect, we wish our students at the foundation’s program an inspiring week before the final presentations. Thanks for your questions and to program lead Lukasz Lucas Lata and Dr. Claudia Nicolai for integrating such interesting talks into the agenda.

🌞 Are you looking for an inspiring way to start this hot summer day at the office? Then register online for the d-talk with Kim Dabbs about “Designing for Better Futures”. You will receive the Zoom link directly by email.

👀 Design Thinking im Schulunterricht – wie soll das funktionieren? Die Siemens Stiftung hat gemeinsam mit uns an der HPI d–school eine kostenfreie Fortbildung für „Design Thinking in MINT“ für Lehrkräfte entwickelt. 🏅Und – tatatatam – für die Fortbildung das Comenius EduMedia Sigel 2024 erhalten: https://comenius-award.de/ 📣 Lehrkräfte in MINT-Fächern, meldet euch jetzt für die nächsten Fortbildungen in Potsdam und Frankfurt (Main) an, die Plätze sind begrenzt. Den Link findet ihr unten.   🎥 Wir haben Teilnehmende aus der letzten Fortbildung in Berlin gefragt, was Design Thinking zum Unterricht beitragen kann. Die Antworten darauf seht ihr im Film.   Wie genau läuft die Fortbildung ab? 📝 Die Blended-Learning-Fortbildungen richten sich an MINT-Lehrkräfte. In einem Mix aus Präsenz- und Online-Sessions lernt ihr die Lehr- und Lernmethode über einen Zeitraum von drei Monaten kennen und erarbeitet eurer eigenes Design-Thinking-Projekt für den Einsatz im Unterricht. Unsere Coaches begleiten euch im Zuge der Fortbildung dabei, das Erlernte direkt in eurem eigenen Schulkontext umzusetzen. 👇 Mehr Informationen und der direkte Link zur Anmeldung auf dem Medienportal der Siemens Stiftung: https://lnkd.in/evVAfqai

„It is too late to be pessimistic” – this message by a speaker of the 2CO Conference at Elisava School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona got stuck in the mind of our Program Lead, Thomas Grundnigg, who is part of the scientific committee of the conference.   Today is the last day of the conference, which covered topics like ongoing exploration experiences, completed projects, and case studies in design-based research, methodologies, and practitioner fields. We look forward to what further takeaways Tom will loop back into the Design Thinking Studio Sustainability at HPI d–school   It’s worthwhile looking at Thomas Grundnigg's post with the tagged persons or the speakers' list on the conference website itself: https://2coconference.org.

Get a glimpse into one of our current #designthinking project at the HPI d–school. Thanks to our partners, Data4Life, for sharing!

🥳 Interim Presentations at d-school Foundations Program – what can you take away from a Design Thinking course for your studies and what project partners will gain from it? 🎯   🎬 Last Friday at the HPI d–school, the stage was 🎤 “stage clear” for the interim presentations in front of the project partners: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Michels Kliniken, Data4Life, Cula Technologies and "Brandenburg zeigt Haltung". Like every semester, this is always a very special highlight on the 16-week path to the final presentation of the solutions – for the students and the project partners.    💬 Program lead, Lukasz Lata, summarizes his personal eye-openers: „I particularly appreciated the creativity and unfiltered presentation of the research results and potential solutions. It was fascinating to see the project partners' reactions as they experienced their challenges through the fresh, unbiased perspectives of the students. The students brought entirely new interpretations to the project challenges.“   📋 Analogue solutions can be found as well as  🖥️ digital approaches: „We are very happy to have four project partners this year. Eight teams are addressing their challenges, each building its own prototype. The students are very empathetic and good listeners, which empowers them to decide on their own what type of prototype to build that would best fit the stakeholders or the challenge. This year, we have four physical prototypes and four digital prototypes.”   ✏️ How can you, as a student, benefit from this practice-oriented learning approach? „Beyond the obvious opportunity to learn a new methodology and work on a real-life challenge with a business or institution, the biggest impact of design thinking is on the students themselves. Students learn to develop new habits such as team spirit and collaboration, listening and empathy, adopting a "yes, and..." mindset, and celebrating failures,” observes Lukasz, who, together with Dr. Claudia Nicolai, developed the program “Design Thinking Foundations.”   🔎 The project partners can also gain a lot from bringing in a practical question – a so-called design challenge. Lukasz’s thoughts: „They learn about design thinking, what it means to be innovative, and how this can trigger internal transformation. Partners benefit from research and solutions developed by students, who are more objective than internal stakeholders. They also have the opportunity to connect with d-school’s network of organizations and institutions, which can lead to collaborations, knowledge sharing, and access to new talent.“   Are you interested in studying design thinking 😎? Then register with our “Reminder” and we will inform you about the start of applications: https://lnkd.in/eZtNc6kh   📞 Interested project partners can find the right contact person here: https://lnkd.in/dhgiZV3G

📢 Lehrkräfte in den MINT-Fächern aufgepasst und alle, die jemanden kennen, der jemand kennt - ihr wisst schon 😜 Diese tolle Fortbildung zu Design Thinking in MINT-Lehrfächern können wir euch wärmstens empfehlen. Sie ist eine Kooperation der Siemens Stiftung mit der HPI d–school und unserem Netzwerk an erfahrenen Design Thinking Coaches. Gerne denken wir an den tollen Flow zwischen den Teilnehmenden in den letzten Workshops in Berlin zurück 🫶🏻

We couldn't have said it better - thank you, Mhairi Stewart and Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, for announcing the new PEX project. We are very excited about the design challenges around the topics of innovation and international public engagement. The design thinking studio “Open Innovation,” developed by Sherif Osman and Dr. Claudia Nicolai, offers the right framework for this. 👉 Let's start! 💙💛Trixi Gumbel Charlotte Dreyer

How do you handle complexity? We are excited to get some answers (or more inspiring questions) 👀 from our program lead, Thomas Grundnigg, at the 2CO4 conference in Barcelona.