In the course of the digital transformation, the Design Thinking method established by the IDEO agency and the Hasso Plattner Institute has become increasingly well-known and used in a wide variety of innovation contexts, even outside of design practice.
For scientists in digitisation research, design thinking is suitable, among other things, as a structural basis at the beginning of research work in order to use natural moments of uncertainty productively and creatively to their advantage.
The borrowing of design thinking methods for the scientific context also offers impulses for iterative work and efficient evaluation possibilities of possible sub-steps in the later process, which conventional procedures sometimes do not yet offer.
We will start the workshop with a short overview of the different phases of the design thinking process and a classification that shows us that the method does not necessarily focus on thinking and has little to do with design or what one imagines by that. In short practical work units, we try out the cross-disciplinary application of the different phases in the group.
In the process, we develop design-oriented methods of research work, idea generation and problem definition, and learn how, among other things, the various protoyping and testing methods can be introduced into the scientific process.
Together, we locate design thinking in the big innovation buzzword cloud and thus create systemically meaningful and productive connections to familiar working and research methods.
The workshop will take place digitally (via Zoom).