Design ThinkingSemester Course

Design Thinking, Elective Course at DIS Stockholm
Major Discipline(s)
Design, Engineering, Entrepreneurship
Type
Elective Course
Available
Fall/Spring semester
Credit(s)
3

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.

Related Discipline(s)

This course would also be of interest to the following discipline(s):
Business, Education / Educational Studies

Faculty

Jonathan Geib

DIS Stockholm Semester Faculty

Ph.D., Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (2020). Research work on complexities of engagement with urban participatory processes involving public sector institutions and art and design practitioners. MSc, KU Leuven, Belgium (2013) in Urbanism and Strategic Planning. MSc, KU Leuven, in Human Settlements (2010). BSc in Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, USA (2002). Research Fellow at the International Youth Think Tank, Gothenburg, Sweden (2020–⁠present). Motivated by pluralistic approaches to research and design practice, criticality, and creativity. With DIS since 2021.