Thinking x Design

What activities develop collaborative innovation?

We talked to dozens of technologists and business development experts to identify gaps in current practice to build our Thinking x Design Program format. Participants practice concepts from the expanded field of design that can help scaffold success.

This 8 week workshop experience pulls from the very widest definition of design to offer a counter proposition to the promise of design thinking. Rather than focusing on pain points and solutions, we set your team up with a working definition of design for the present and future.

We then move into activities that are part conceptual framework and part practice, that help your team work across scales, through systems boundaries, and within systemic complexity to transform the current state of your opportunity to a preferred future state.

We then put these capacities to the test in a real world project brief that reflects your actual organizational opportunity spaces.

This program is currently  offered in either a hybrid or entirely remote format.
Workshop size: 8-12 participants
Weeks 1-4 2h studio time & 1h independent individual work per week
Weeks 5-8 1h office hours, 3h independent team work per week

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