School of Design Thinking

Design Thinking

Design is no longer just a buzzword, as it has become a critical factor in the success of products, services, and even education. Design Thinking is the process behind achieving deep and meaningful impact on customers and consumers. It drives deep differentiation, even in designing pedagogy and interacting with students in classrooms. The Design Thinking approach goes beyond the use of tools; it involves understanding the needs of students and other stakeholders, observing and clustering patterns, connecting the dots, and identifying blind spots. This approach makes the Design Process intellectually stimulating and a joyous collaborative experience, with a focus on human-centricity rather than the problem itself.

Theme

Design The Thinking® is a unique 2-day immersive workshop exclusively for academic faculty. This is the third edition of program. This program aims to help participants enhance their own development, improve student experience and explore new opportunities for their departments and institutions. Design Thinking is one of the threads connecting all academic programs. In this workshop, faculty members will be introduced to the concept of Design Thinking, including its tools, processes and frameworks, resulting in impactful outcomes.

Takeaways

Understand Design Thinking and its application in the academic context

Leverage cross-functional expertise to co-create unique offerings

Understand deeper aspects of student learning

Be a change agent to create a culture of Design Thinking in the campus

Shift the mindset of ‘what we could do’ to ‘what we should do’

Access to SoDT Knowledge portal

Pedagogy

Sub-group huddles to explore organizational vulnerabilities and mind blocks

Agenda-less dialogue to get deeper insights on current reality

Reflective questionnaires and deliberations to mirror the emotional quotient

Interactive pedagogy with probing / provocative dialogue to help shift participants’ mental models

Learn design thinking tools and techniques to help align energy of every faculty member for exponential growth

Who Can Attend?

Minimum 10 years teaching experience in any stream from Engineering / Management / Arts / Science colleges

Teaching faculty from NIRF-ranked institutions

Willing to shift from ‘Teaching students’ to ‘Learning for students’

Commitment to learn and explore new avenues / ideas

Curious child-like mindset

Willing to take risks

Not hesitant to ask questions

Not afraid to make mistakes and are willing to learn from it

Not afraid to say “I don’t know”

Inspired to put their learning into practice

Have the ability to take lead and be a change-agent

Workshop Highlights

Access to the World’s First 8012 FinTech Design Center™ during the session

Experiential learning sessions

Contextual case studies for exploring practical solutions and mini projects

Residential Program with interesting group learnings

Identify Action Learning Project

Access to industry leaders for one-on-one coaching sessions

What you earn?

‘Design The Thinking®’ workshop is curated exclusively for faculty members of institutions of higher education who are willing to spend two full days to learn Design Thinking as a life skill and are eager to take it back to their workplace to apply it in teaching, learning and research.

The faculty members must be nominated and sponsored by the respective higher education institutions.

Upon successful completion of the program, every participant would earn a uniquely identified & coded program Participation certificate.

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Faculty

Our faculty have a cumulative experience of 60 years in practicing and teaching Design Thinking. In addition, they bring relevant industry and academic experience that not only enriches School of Design Thinking’s pedagogy, but also the manner in which the various programs and workshops are conducted.