Design Thinking
Design Thinking
Design thinking is an approach to problem-solving that has benefits far beyond design, creative and innovation disciplines. This Melbourne MicroCert demonstrates how to harness design process to approach ‘wicked’ problems across any industry. It’s ideal for professionals from a wide range of sectors seeking enhanced creative-thinking skills to tackle problems…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Design thinking is an approach to problem-solving that has benefits far beyond design, creative and innovation disciplines. This Melbourne MicroCert demonstrates how to harness design process to approach ‘wicked’ problems across any industry. It’s ideal for professionals from a wide range of sectors seeking enhanced creative-thinking skills to tackle problems in new and innovative ways. Explore design process in a studio-style practice: Adopting a studio-style approach, you’ll explore key steps of the design process – research, ideate, curate, prototype, make, reflect, and reiterate – and consider how this can apply to problems within your own professional context. Experiment with new ways to generate ideas: Gain new perspectives and build confidence in your ability to ideate and develop concepts and ideas. Be guided to freely experiment, collaborate document and present your exploration process in a reflective journal. Use design thinking to enhance your collaborative skills: Explore how you can use design-thinking methods to collaborate across a range of disciplines and with peers within your own industry. Approach complex problems in your industry in new ways: Applying your knowledge, you’ll define a complex or ‘wicked’ problem – related to an object, space or system – within your own industry or organisation. Using design-thinking methods to create an artefact that responds to the problem, and be guided to present it in a visually compelling way.
Skills and learning outcomes: By the end of this course, you’ll have a deep understanding of design thinking. You’ll be able to: Use design-thinking methods to collaborate across a range of disciplines to explore problems and create object, spatial or system transformations, embracing unpredictability and change; Critically reflect on application of design-thinking processes that create tangible solutions; Present compelling arguments and solutions using appropriate design nomenclature and visual communications.
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Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
