Innovation & Design Thinking

• Human Centered Design Thinking (HCDT) –innovation method originally defined by the consulting company IDEO applied to a real existing problem.
• Local real-life company mission
• Coach with 10-years of international consulting experience.
• Extracurricular cultural activities every day.

Program assessment:
1. HCDT diary (individual assignment): A 2-page report (1000 words max) on my learning journey as a design thinking consultant throughout the summer school.
2. Team presentation (Day 5, team assignment) : Oral presentation to the company (documented in form of a ppt presentation).

Course leader

Sabine Mueller PhD is a lecturer specialised in education and research on entrepreneurship, leadership and creativity for more than 15 years. As a Gestalt-therapist and personal development trainer, she combines theory and practice in her teaching.

Target group

Prerequisites:
• Undergraduate and postgraduate students from any discipline.
• Open mindedness towards innovative learning approaches and action learning.
• Solid English language level and sufficient social skills to connect with students from different countries and disciplines.
• A basic level of personal maturity to embrace the level of introspection and personal development that is part of the program

Course aim

There is no problem without a context! If we take the time and effort to explore it, the real problem will appear together with the best possible solution/s. Human Centered Design Thinking (HCDT) is an innovation method that makes an essential ‘detour’ called EMPATHY to explore the needs of people involved in a problem, or capable of providing inspiration to solve the problem before jumping to the solution of the problem. During this program “Human Centered Design Thinking” will be applied to a local real-life company mission.