“It's a combination of different layers. One is the mindset, one is the method and one is the culture.It works best, when you are fully into all the levels.” Survey respondent in Jan Schmiedgen, Rhinow, Köppen & Meinel (2015:36)

designthinking ?

informed by…

1973 - Horst Rittel - Wicked Problems 1982 - Donald Schön - Reflective Practitioner

1982 - Donald Schön - Problem Setting 1987 - Peter Rowe - Design Thinking

1987 - Buchanan - HCD 1998 - Buchanan - multidisiplinarity in DT 1999 - Cross - Designerly ways of being

2005 - Klaus Krippendorff - Meaning Making 2006 - Kees Dorst - Abductive Reasoning 2009 - Tim Brown - Change by Design

2013 - D & B Kelley - Creative Confidence

rational-analytic & design thinking

5 central sub-discourses within Design

Thinking having clear roots and a substantial academic following:

creation of artefacts (Simon, 1969).

reflexive practice (Schön, 1983).

problem finding/solving activity (Buchanan, 1992 based on Rittel and Webber, 1973).

reasoning/sensemaking (Lawson, 2006 [1980]; Cross, 2006, 2011).

creation of meaning (Krippendorff, 2006).

adapted from Johansson-Sköldberg,Woodilla and Çetinkaya (2013:124)

adapted from Carlgren, Rauth and Elmquist (2016)

fuzzy front end multiple futures

adapted from Nielsen and Christensen, 2014

Design Thinking as Situated Learning

Design Thinking theory and practice

informed by:

HPI Design Thinking publications

Focus: To be a nexus in South Africa and the African continent regards the practice, research and dissemination in Design Led Thinking as a driver of

new outcomes and innovation

Design Thinking starts with people

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