JAIST team and I joined d.school public tour
on 8/2. Around 100 people joined the session. Justin explained that d.School
offers classes to students at Stanford and executives in industries. In a year,
5 executive classes and 25 student classes, total around 600 students take
classes. d.school is just a start up in Stanford University, focusing creating thinking and analytical thinking, which is taught at the regular classes. Design thinking is based on HCD, provides actual methods for creativity. Not only classroom workshop, a project that solves real problems provided by industries, a real project, is provided to students.
Analytical thinker could not create new idea, so that design thinking needs to be focused. The initial idea is a rough sketch and low resolution, so that row materials, such as papers, boxes, etc… are used for prototyping to test the idea.
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A project is formed with three students, sometimes mentored by industry advisors. d.school is a third place, no visitor; everyone can contribute to the idea. Here students learn that most of problems do not have a clear answer, but multiple solutions.
