Millennial Thinking: Designing for Problems Outside of the Classroom
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Busting out of academic silos, teams of interdisciplinary students from across the University of Portland campus will present their culminating posters, videos, and physical objects from a newly offered course: Business/Communication 391 Design Thinking and Cross-Disciplinary Research. This course draws students from all areas of the university– Engineering, Business, Nursing, Education, and Arts & Sciences– and introduces them to design thinking as a lens for applied research, including gap definition, ideation, prototyping, and problem-solving tools adapted from human-centered design. Teams will discuss the skills they have developed as ethnographers, visual thinkers, strategists, and storytellers and how those skills have been applied in order to address real-world problems for organizations within the Portland community.
Design Week Portland: Monday April 24 3pm-5pm – ALMOST SOLD OUT!