About this course
This interactive course — open to all students — focuses on the process of design, using methods of design thinking and co-creation: user-centered mindsets and action-oriented toolkits to help critically reframe challenges and innovate collaboratively. No design experience is required.
We select our project focus in dialogue with the 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century, including enhancing virtual reality, advancing personalized learning, and making solar energy economical. Working in interdisciplinary groups, you develop ideas in co-creation with peers, stakeholders, professionals, and end users, utilizing tools and techniques to better understand and synthesize insights; generate, visualize, and prototype ideas; and iterate collaborative designs.
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Faculty
Jonathan Geib
FacultyPh.D. in Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology (2020). Research work on complexities of engagement with urban participatory processes involving public sector institutions and art and design practitioners. M.Sc. in Urbanism and Strategic Planning, KU Leuven (2013). M.Sc. in Human Settlements, KU Leuven (2010). B.Sc. in Architecture, University of Texas at Austin (2002). Currently writing a working paper on citizens’ assemblies and civic committees as Research Fellow at the International Youth Think Tank (2020–present). With DIS since 2021.