Course Details

1 Title of the course
(L-T-P-C)
Design Thinking and Creativity
(1-0-0-0)
2 Pre-requisite courses(s) Nil
3 Course content
  1. Problem Exploration- Students move around and find problems that need solutions.
  2. They analyse the problem (not solution) and evolve a problem space. The problem space is converted into a story boar and presented in a poster session.
  3. Feedback at the poster session is used to refine the problem definition(s).
  4. Solution Exploration: Creative solutions (solution space) are now explored and presented using story boards.
  5. The solutions are converted into “embodiments”
4 Texts/References
  1. “Stuff Matters” Prof. Mark Miodownik, Penguin
  2. “Design and Technology” by James Garratt, Cambridge University Press.
  3. How it works in the home: Walt Disney:9780894340482- Amazon.com.
  4. How it works in the City (Walt Disney available on Amazon.com)
  5. Change by design – Tim Brown
  6. There are some additional books in this “How it Works” series.