This class on design thinking will help students learn how to create innovative solutions to today's challenges, with a focus on sustainability and social inclusion. Design thinking is an iterative process for exploring and developing solutions, where empathy, creativity, and iterative prototyping play a central role. Design thinking has proven very valuable in a wide range of domains and industries, such as technology, healthcare and manufacturing.

 

Given the social and environmental challenges that all industries face today, this class will cover the ethical aspects that need to be considered regarding externalities whenever one designs a new product or service, such as the pollution it creates, the resources and energy it uses, the impact it has on communities and ecosystems, etc.