Design Thinking

TitleTimeRoomTeacher
Design Thinking 10.02.2025 09:00 - 17:00 (Mon)TUM Graduate School: Boltzmannstraße 17, 85748 Garching bei München, Room 102 Christa Forster
Design Thinking 11.02.2025 09:00 - 17:00 (Tue)TUM Graduate School: Boltzmannstraße 17, 85748 Garching bei München, Room 102 Christa Forster
Keywords: 
Design Thinking, Human-centered innovation, life-centered innovation, innovation mindset, innovation method, experience-based learning
Course Description: 

Life-centered Innovation Fast Forward

An interactive and experience-based 2-day training where you learn and practice the core concepts of design thinking in a fast-forward approach. Receive a foundational, practical understanding of the essential design thinking skills and mindsets.

Course aims: 
  • Learn techniques to better understand the social, emotional and physical needs of the users of your products or services
  • Apply methods that help you translate your user needs into life-centered solutions
  • Use ideation techniques to quickly generate, develop and test new ideas
  • Reduce the risk of your new ideas by obtaining feedback through rapid prototypes
  • Demonstrate your new skills using concrete, real-life project tasks, such as prototypes of products and services
Teaching methods: 

Experience-based learning, creating safe spaces, space for self-reflection, collaborative learning, real-world learning, learning by examples, feedback loops.

This course fits doctoral candidates in the following phase: 

At the beginning of the doctorate │ during the doctorate │ at the end of the doctorate

Participation requirements: 

None.

Technical requirements: 

None.

Course preparation: 

None.

Additional information: 

None.

What participants say about this course: 
  • Great trainer, Christa was very motivating, open and welcoming. It was very hands-on and had less theoretical input than I expected.
  • I liked the practical hands-on work but also the variation throughout the design process. Also, by doing everything practically from surveying to testing and reflection, every aspect of the course was perfectly timed and helped remember the method.
  • Friendly nice atmosphere, that made it possible to quickly get into the topic and made the hands on approach really enjoyable.
Category: 
Fachübergreifende Veranstaltung
Event type: 
Seminar/Workshop
Organizer: 
Graduate School Geschäftsstelle
Responsibility for event: 
Hauptverantwortung
Format: 
In Präsenz
Course Language: 
EN
Course Capacity (Max): 
12
Course capacity (Min): 
1
Duration in hours: 
14
Financial contribution: 
40 Euro
Trainer: 
Christa Forster

Christa Forster has a background in innovation management, brand strategy and UX, driving collaborative, courageous and life-centered approaches for teams and organizations. Responsible action drives her.