Breakfast Crash Course in Design Thinking

18 May 2016 08:00OPENLAB

Breakfast Crash Course in Design Thinking

- for professionals from all sectors

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Why take a crash course in Design Thinking?

When addressing societal challenges for the growing city, it is key to work in a creative and user-centered manner to find relevant and radical solutions. For Openlab, Design Thinking is central in approaching every challenge.

Design Thinking is the kind of process that will change the way you tackle your work. It is a toolkit and a mind-set that will make you reframe your challenges, work from a user perspective and start working with visual thinking.

Course description:

The crash course is divided into two breakfast sessions. During these four-hour sessions, you will be introduced to the Design Thinking approach and how to use that mind-set in your everyday work.

Design Thinking coaches from Openlab will be leading the course: Julien Mauroy and Geert van den Boogaard. Both have a background in design and years of experience working and teaching Design Thinking and Human-centered-design. Julien and Geert will lead the course in English.

This course was created to reach professionals from all sectors. You will work with interdisciplinary teams, combining public sector, universities and professionals from all backgrounds in order to create opportunities for cross-pollination.

By joining the course, you will gain the basic Design Thinking tools to tackle societal challenges in new ways. With these tools, we will help you become a Design Thinking change agent.

Learning goals:

– Understand and use the Design Thinking mind-set

– Understand and use the five phases of Design Thinking and specific exercises

– Be able to test it out on your own – trying out the tools in between course sessions

Workload:

– Class hours: Two-hour sessions from 8.00 – 10.00 on Wednesdays and Fridays, two weeks in a row. Total class time: 8 hours.

– Field work: Small exercises in between sessions, to try out the tools.

Certificate:

After completing all the course elements, you will receive a certificate signed by Openlab’s executive director and the course leaders.

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OPENLAB

Valhallavägen 79 114 27 Stockholm Sweden

All you need to know:

This particular course is held in English!

You sign up through your organisation or company by writing their information when signing up - unfortunately you can not sign up as a private person.

Time and date:

Dates:
– 18:th of May
– 20:th of May

Time:
8.00–12.00 in the mornings both days

Breakfast is included!

Location:

Openlab (3:rd floor – workshop room)

Valhallavägen 79, 114 27 Stockholm

Cost and billing:

The crash course costs 4 500 SEK excluding VAT (ex moms). An invoice from “KTH fakturaservice” will be sent to your organization at the end of the month after you have finished the course. You will fill out your billing information when registering.

Cancellation terms:

Cancellation of your registration in the course must be confirmed a minimum of 4 weeks before the course start date. Cancellations confirmed less than 3 weeks in advance are billed 50 % of the price. Cancellations confirmed less than 2 weeks in advance are billed full price. For cancellations, contact the coordinator - Susanne Ringström at susanne.ringstrom@openlab.se. Cancellations are valid only when confirmed in writing by Susanne.

In the case of course cancellation due to low attendance, participants will be contacted a minimum of 2 weeks before the planned course start date. If this happens, you will not be billed for the registration costs or any other fees.

Openlab

Openlab Stockholm @openlabsthlm susanne.ringstrom@openlab.se

About Openlab:
Openlab is a creative centre with the mission to enable societal innovations and improve quality of life for people in the Stockholm region. We were founded by the City of Stockholm, the City County Counsel, the County Administrative board, KTH, Stockholm University, Södertörn University and the Karolinska Institute.

Besides running the breakfast crash courses, we also run a master’s course, we create workshops, longer projects, run a co-working space, a conference space and collaborate with Open Café.