Design Thinking for Your Creative Practice (2022) - Skills and methods to help you work like a designer
Published: July 29, 2022
We are pleased to inform you of the exciting workshop; "Design Thinking for Your Creative Practice", to be held in coming October and start of call for applications of the workshop. This workshop has been held at Tokyo Tech every year since 2014 and got over subscription every time. The workshop has a reputation for its effectiveness to understand the core of Design Thinking; concepts of Creative Confidence and User Centric. The workshop is also informative and enjoyable by its speedy Silicon Valley style process by inviting 3 facilitators and instructors invited from the US. This year, it will be held online, connecting with the tutors in the US.
It is essential for students to have capability of "leadership" and "entrepreneurship" in a borderless society in order to generate new values, and "Design Thinking" is a fundamental concept and methodology for such "leadership" and "entrepreneurship" skills. Many Japanese and international enterprises are actually asking their employees to learn and utilize the concept of "Design Thinking".
Instructors for the workshop are Thomas Both, David Janka, and Scott Witthoft. They are all professional product designers and educators. They teach design thinking at the Stanford University d.school, the University of Texas at Austin, and at organizations around the world. The instructors are happy to return to Tokyo Tech again this year for the 9th time!
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Although this workshop will be held as a part of ToTAL(Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership)'s course of "Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I/II (F)", any Tokyo Tech students who are not applying the ToTAL course or students from other universities can apply to the workshop. (Credits will not be granted to those students).
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This workshop has been designated as an event for "Cross the border! Tokyo-Tech pioneering doctoral research project" students at Tokyo Tech.
Last year's Workshop
Overview
Date and Time
Day 1: Saturday, October 15, 2022 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Day 2: Saturday, October 22, 2022 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Day 3: Sunday, October 23, 2022 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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Each workshop will be held online via Zoom.
Venue
Online (Zoom)
Quorum
30 students
Language
English
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This workshop will be held entirely in English. (Scores over 750 for TOEIC and 80 for TOEFL iBT are preferable).
Fee
Free
Due date for application
Monday, October 3, 2022
Tools for on-line workshop
Zoom, MURAL
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By considering nature of this workshop, all attendants are requested to put their video on during the workshop. Please attend to the workshop from an environment where there is stable and good internet connectivity.
Eligibility / Notes
- In addition to ToTAL students and the students who register to ToTAL's course of either "Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I/II (F)" or "(Master's/Doctoral) Essential Group Work for Leadership (F)", any Tokyo Tech students and any students of other universities may apply the workshop.
- There will be a selection in case of over-subscription.
- With regard to the selection, both ToTAL students and the students who registered for ToTAL course may have a priority, and your answers to the Application Form below; " Please indicate your English capability, such as "Native", "Advanced", "Intermediate", or "Beginner", and/or score of English assessment tests including TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS, Cambridge and/or EIKEN" and "Your aim(s) or expectations you have for this workshop, or motivation for joining the workshop." will be taken into consideration.
- Attendants to this workshop need to make commitments to: (1) attending all 3 days, and (2) not be late nor leave early for all 3 days
How to apply the workshop
- If you wish to join the workshop, please apply from the link below and fill out all necessary information.
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Whether you can join the workshop or not will be informed to applicants after the application deadline.
Facilitators
Thomas Both
Thomas is a designer and design educator whose passion is helping people understand the practice of human-centered design-and their ability as designers-to innovate how they learn, think, and solve problems.
He is director of the Designing for Social Systems program at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford University.
In this program, he teaches professionals how to apply design thinking to complex social challenges and facilitates workshops for social impact leaders to develop a more human and strategic practice.
David Janka
Design consultant and creative strategist; former Fellow and current lecturer at the Stanford University d.school. David has a medical degree from Stanford and works to integrate design thinking principles into medical education, healthcare delivery, and medical device design.
Scott Witthoft
Professional space and product designer; Associate Professor of Practice at University of Texas at Austin; former Fellow and lecturer at the Stanford University d.school. Scott is author of the book "Make Space," a tool for designing collaborative spaces. He has a professional background in structural engineering.
Workshop in the last year
Workshop in the last year
Comments from the students who joined the last year
- Tokyo Tech M1: This course is a must do if you want to learn in a fun cooperative environment. The lecturers are super friendly and professional!
- Tokyo Tech M2: It was a really fun, relaxing and interactive workshop. The workshop is very well organized and it allows the participants to learn very effectively.
- Tokyo Tech D1: This workshop encourages engineers/scientist to be uncomfortable because we learn and view things from totally new and unstandardized perspective: design, where numbers and formula are replaced by circles and shades.
Reports on last year's workshop
ToTAL's aims and characteristics of this workshop
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All of Tokyo Tech students are expected to develop and execute new value for society when they become "professionals" in any fields.
At ToTAL, we believe that the core of "leadership" is the motivation and skills to develop such new value for society proactively. - The concept of "Creative Confidence", meaning that creativity is for everybody and anyone can generate new ideas, and "User Centric", which is making new values to be accepted in society, are the fundamentals of Design Thinking. Establishing such concepts in your mind, developing logic and taking actions will lead to such new values.
- Although it is often understood that Design Thinking is a kind of method to generate "innovations" by following 5 steps; empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test, the core of Design Thinking is the 2 concept above.
- This workshop aims to establish such 2 concepts in your brain and body. d.school tutors designed the agenda especially for Tokyo Tech to satisfy such aim, which is deferent from usual design thinking workshop of merely learning the 5 steps.
- During this 3-day workshop, students should try to understand and experience the mind-set of Creative Confidence and the skill set of User Centric; exploring mechanism of needs and jump belong logic, through d.school way of speedy, friendly and diversified learning environment.
Design Thinking for Your Creative Practice (2022) Flyer
- Design Thinking for Your Creative Practice (2022) Flyer
- 【Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership】Application Form for Design Thinking For Your Creative Practice | Google Forms
- 【Call for Applications】 Design Thinking for Your Creative Practice Skills and methods to help you work like a designer | ToTAL
- Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership (ToTAL)
Contact
Prof. Keisuke Yamada, Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership(ToTAL)
