Workshop "Design Thinking for Your Creative Practice (2024)"

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Although this workshop will be held as a part of Academy for Leadership's course of "Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I/II (F)", any students who are not applying to the Academy for Leadership course or students from other universities can also 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 "Program for Development of Next-Generation Front-Runners with Comprehensive Knowledge and Humanity" students as well.

• [ Entrepreneurship / Career Development Courses ] [ SPRING event ] ToTAL Open Program

Details

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This workshop will be held entirely in English.
(Scores over 750 for TOEIC and 80 for TOEFL iBT are preferable).

• All current university students, both undergraduates and graduates, are eligible to apply. Students outside of Science Tokyo are also eligible.
• There will be a selection in case of over-subscription. In case of selection, the order of priority will be 1) Academy for Leadership students, 2) students who registered for Academy for Leadership courses, and 3) others who are participating in an ad-hoc basis. 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 for the selection.
• Applicants to this workshop need to make the following commitments : 1) attending both 2 days, and 2) not be late nor leave early for both days.

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Whether you can join the workshop or not will be informed to applicants after the application deadline.

• Hands-on creativity practice. You can learn about the different ways and processes for generating new ideas and how you can transform them quickly into tangible prototypes.(D1)
• It was a really fun, relaxing and interactive workshop. The workshop is very well organized and it allows the participants to learn very effectively. (D2)
• This workshop provides an opportunity to interact with other students and understand your own space. It made me realize that I want to do more, and, more importantly, to do things in a professional manner.(M2)
• I really enjoyed learning the concept of design thinking and practical skills such as effective sketching techniques. It was also a good opportunity to use my English, so I would recommend it to everyone.！(M1)
• The content and participants were of very high quality, and the workshop was very satisfying. Personally, I have improved my English discussion skills since joining Academy for Leadership in June, so I was able to feel my own growth in that respect as well through this workshop. Let's join together next year! (M1)

• All of Science Tokyo students are expected to develop and execute new value for society when they become "professionals" in any fields. At Academy for Leadership, 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 concepts above.
• This workshop aims to establish such 2 concepts in your brain and body. The d.school tutors designed the agenda especially for Science Tokyo to satisfy such aim, which is deferent from usual design thinking workshop of merely learning the 5 steps.
• During this 2-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.

Related

• Workshop "Design Thinking for Your Creative Practice (2024)" Flyer
• [Call for participants] ToTAL/OPEN Program: Design Thinking for Your Creative Practice –Skills and methods to help you work like a designer– (Oct. 26 & 27)
• [Entrepreneurship / Career Development Courses] [SPRING event] ToTAL Open Program
• Academy for Leadership