| Title | Time | Room | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Thinking for Researchers | 23.09.2025 09:00 - 17:00 (Tue) | TUM Graduate School: Boltzmannstraße 17, 85748 Garching bei München, Room 102 | Bianca Hartmann |
| Design Thinking for Researchers | 24.09.2025 09:00 - 17:00 (Wed) | TUM Graduate School: Boltzmannstraße 17, 85748 Garching bei München, Room 102 | Bianca Hartmann |
Speed up Your Thesis and Unleash Your Creative Potential
An interactive and experiential 2-day training in which participants learn and apply the concepts of Design Thinking in fast-forward. You will gain a basic, practical understanding of the essential skills and mindsets of Design Thinking. The workshop is aimed at doctoral candidates who are working on research projects or who want to turn their research results into a product or service.
Design thinking effectively leads to innovative results, systematically accelerates projects and unleashes creativity. It turns the traditional academic approach on its head. Applying this approach in academia means that participants will be able to be “systematically creative”, develop new ideas, work more efficiently and faster. In addition, participants will learn to communicate more effectively with their PI, colleagues, professor and other researchers.
And finally, participants will gain confidence and be able to use their time more efficiently because they will learn to move their work forward in relevant steps, being co-creative and application-oriented.
You will learn techniques to better understand the social, emotional and physical needs of your audience and stakeholders.
- Apply methods that help researchers translate identified problems into effective, relevant and accountable work steps
- Learn idea generation techniques to quickly develop and test new ideas
- Learn an iterative approach to accelerate research work
- Reduce the risk of irrelevant work steps by soliciting feedback
- Train storytelling skills to communicate work effectively
Experience-based learning, creating safe spaces, space for self-reflection, collaborative learning, real-world learning, learning by examples, feedback loops.
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- 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.
With a strong background in Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Prototyping, Bianca Hartmann is passionate about empowering teams and individuals to truly experience innovation — and to discover how each of us can actively contribute to it.