Sorting through the myriad of what needs to be included in any project while incorporating multiple perspectives is most challenging. Design Thinking has become a way for teams to explore the wholeness of the challenge -- conventional solutions versus innovative ones. Depending on whom you ask, Design Thinking has various realities ranging from a methodology of making something to a tool for corporate strategy.

At its basics, Design Thinking is about relentless questioning of known solutions and suspension of judgment of unlikely combinations of limitations in order to find potentially viable outcomes. To design something requires action, which specifically necessitates physically making something many times. This process involves immersion and intense exploration of limitations of a situation or ill-defined problem using various skills and techniques to develop plausible solutions. It quickly moves from learning skills and techniques to developing teamwork practices and collaborative processes that focus on analysis and how one's previous and concurrent experiences contribute.

This workshop will reveal how Design Thinking is learned in Foundation Design Lab in the School of Architecture + Design and employed in situations outside of the classroom. Participants will see what is happening in design lab as well as in the everyday workplace, and find ways to engage their students in Design Thinking practices.

Presenter: Kathryn Clarke Albright

Please register for this event at http://www.cider.vt.edu/events/

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Location:	Duck Pond Room, The Inn at Virginia Tech
Price:	Free, Registration Required
Sponsor:	Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research (CIDER)
Contact:	Tiffany Shoop tshoop@vt.edu 540-231-0785
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