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Design thinking in medical education to tackle real world healthcare problems: The MasterMinds Challenge

van Velzen, Monique (author), Boru, A. (author), Sarton, Elise (author), de Beaufort, Arnout Jan (author)

Educational challenge: Medical education must equip future professionals with the necessary skills to navigate the complex healthcare landscape. Clinical knowledge is essential, and critical and creative thinking skills are vital to meet the challenges of the system. Design thinking offers a structured approach that integrates creativity and...

journal article 2024

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Making way for design thinking in the public sector: a taxonomy of strategies

Brinkman, Geert (author), van Buuren, Arwin (author), Voorberg, William (author), van der Bijl-Brouwer, M. (author)

Public organizations are increasingly turning to design thinking to address wicked societal issues, enhance innovation, and improve services. However, in general, public organizations do not provide the most receptive context for design thinking. To be applied effectively, design thinking requires sufficient tolerance for uncertainty,...

journal article 2023

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Participatory Design of Participatory Systems for Sustainable Collaboration: Exploring Its Potential in Transport and Logistics

van Langen, P.H.G. (author), Pijper, Gerdje (author), de Vries, P. (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)

Challenges involving economic, environmental, and societal aspects necessitate organisations in business networks to collaborate. The scientific problem central to this paper is the difficulty of building sustainable collaborations. The research question is how to support organisations in building sustainable collaborations in their business...

journal article 2023

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Constructing design activity in words: Exploring linguistic methods to analyse the design process

Chandrasegaran, R.S.K. (author), Salah, Almila Akdag (author), Lloyd, P.A. (author)

Analysing transcripts of design activity typically involve either close reading or manual coding of data, which limits the amount of data that can be analysed. In contrast, we explore a machine-learning based linguistic analysis tool called Empath to identify patterns of reasoning in design talk. The data we use derives from the Design...

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Using design thinking to explore teaching problems in Chilean schools

Bravo, Úrsula (author), Cortés, Catalina (author), Lloyd, P.A. (author), Jones, Derek (author)

Educational systems face increasingly complex demands, confronting teachers with multidimensional people-centred problems rarely solved by linear or standardised solutions. Nevertheless, teachers must juggle multiple variables simultaneously in their daily work. This can lead to routine and unreflective decisions that do not consider unique...

journal article 2023

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Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model

Cash, Philip (author), Gonçalves, M. (author), Dorst, Kees (author)

Designers often face situations where the only way forward is through the exploration of possibilities. However, there is a critical disconnect between understanding of how designer's think and act in such situations. We address this disconnect by proposing and testing (via protocol analysis) the cognitive co-evolution model. Our model...

journal article 2023

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Let’s Get Sociotechnical: A Design Perspective on Zero Energy Renovations

Boess, S.U. (author)

The scaling up of zero energy (ZE) renovations contributes to the energy transition. Yet ZE renovations can be complex and error-prone in both process and outcome. This article draws on theory from sociotechnical design, participatory design, and inclusive design to analyse four recent case studies of ZE renovation/building in the Netherlands....

journal article 2022

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Designing interventions for sustainable change in a real-world laboratory

Pärli, Rea (author), Stauffacher, Michael (author), L'Orange Seigo, Selma (author), Probst, Matthias (author), Pearce, B.J. (author)

Real-world laboratories (RWL) aim to support transformations for sustainable urban development by producing outputs with practical and scientific relevance. To achieve these aims, the local community of which the RWL is a part should be in close collaboration from the start of a project. RWLs offer spaces for ‘thinking outside the box’ and for...

journal article 2022

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Challenges and Opportunities in Upscaling Room for the River: A Conversation about Large-scale Change through Small-scale Interventions

Recubenis Sanchis, I. (author), van der Meulen, G.J.M. (author)

Highlighted by the recent 2021 flood events in Europe, this research takes the<br/>momentum to underline the necessity for radical solutions that embrace uncertain and extreme discharges at the core of planning and design frameworks. Building upon existing Adaptive Management practices in the Netherlands, this research takes the experience of...

journal article 2022

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Framing the multifaceted nature of design thinking in addressing different innovation purposes

Magistretti, Stefano (author), Bianchi, Mattia (author), Calabretta, G. (author), Candi, Marina (author), Dell'Era, Claudio (author), Stigliani, Ileana (author), Verganti, Roberto (author)

Scholars and practitioners acknowledge the role of design, and specifically design thinking, as a driver of innovation and change. Design thinking is gaining attention in the business community beyond the traditional product innovation realm and is increasingly promoted as an engine for the creation of novel user experiences, new businesses,...

journal article 2022

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Forks in the road: Critical design moments for identifying key processes in stakeholder interaction

Pearce, B.J. (author), Dallo, Irina (author), Choi, Victoria (author), Freihardt, Jan (author), Middel, Cédric (author)

While the importance of transdisciplinary (Td) processes as a means to address societal problems is well-established, guidance for the intentional design of stakeholder interactions to meet specific goals, under different conditions and contexts, remains less explored. We propose the concept of critical design moments (CDMs) as a lens through...

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Design to market thinking: exploring the merits of strategic niche management in design thinking

Schraven, D.F.J. (author), Arghandeh Jouneghani, P. (author), Jonkers, H.M. (author), Hertogh, M.J.C.M. (author)

Sustainability transitions require that sustainable innovations develop and scale-up. Two promising approaches contribute to this purpose. Design thinking (DT) focuses on the creative development of sustainable innovations to achieve desirable, feasible and viable products. Strategic niche management (SNM) addresses how sustainable...

journal article 2021

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Design Space Cards: Using a Card Deck to Navigate the Design Space of Interactive Play

Lomas, J.D. (author), Karac, Mihovil (author), Gielen, M.A. (author)

The potential space of game designs is astronomically large. This paper shows how game design theories can be translated into a simple, tangible card deck that can assist in the exploration of new game designs within a broader "design space."By translating elements of game design theory into a physical card deck, we enable users to randomly...

journal article 2021

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Improving the experience of patients in contact isolation by human-centered design: A proof of concept study using patient journey mapping

Dekker, Mireille (author), de Koning, Judith PM (author), Melles, M. (author), Sonneveld, M.H. (author), van Mansfeld, Rosa (author), Jongerden, Irene P (author)

Background: Patient information provision about isolation measures is often not standardized. Moreover, it is unclear what information patients and informal caregivers need to optimize their knowledge and actual experience of contact isolation. We explored opportunities for improving the experience of patients in contact isolation from a human...

journal article 2021

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Addressing the design-implementation gap of sustainable business models by prototyping: A tool for planning and executing small-scale pilots

Baldassarre, B.R. (author), Konietzko, J.C. (author), Brown, P.D. (author), Calabretta, G. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Karpen, Ingo O. (author), Hultink, H.J. (author)

Next to the redesign of industrial products and processes, sustainable business model innovation is a strategic approach to integrate environmental and social concerns into the objectives and operations of organizations. One of the major challenges of this approach is that many promising business model ideas fail to reach the market, which is...

journal article 2020

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Biomimicry design thinking education: a base-line exercise in preconceptions of biological analogies

Stevens, L.L. (author), Kopnina, Helen (author), Mulder, K.F. (author), de Vries, M.J. (author)

Preliminary empirical research conducted by the leading author has shown that design students using biological analogies, or models across different contexts, often misinterpreted these, intentionally or unintentionally, during design. By copying shape or form without integrating the main function of the mimicked biological model, students...

journal article 2020

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From bauhaus to design thinking and beyond: a comparison of two design educational schools

Thoring, K.C. (author), Mueller, R. M. (author), Giegler, S. (author), Badke-Schaub, P.G. (author)

This paper compares two pioneering design educational approaches: the historic Bauhaus school founded in 1919 in Germany, and contemporary design thinking education, based on the example of the HPI School of Design Thinking. We compare both approaches according to six emerging categories: (1) curriculum, (2) multi-disciplinarity, (3) mind-set...

journal article 2020

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You make it and you try it out: Seeds of design discipline futures

Lloyd, P.A. (author)

This paper takes a narrative seam through the design discipline, attempting to explain how design methodology, one of the three types of Nigel Cross' designerly ways of knowing, has changed over the 40 years of Design Studies. Specifically, the paper identifies the point when a ‘social turn’ in the discipline occurred, allowing more nuanced...

journal article 2019

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Collaborative Design Thinking (CoDeT): A co-design approach for high child-to-adult ratios

van Mechelen, M.P.P. (author), Laenen, Ann (author), Zaman, Bieke (author), Willems, Bert (author), Abeele, Vero Vanden (author)

This paper presents the Collaborative Design Thinking (CoDeT) co-design approach, its theoretical framework, and its application in a case study with 49 children aged 9 to 10 in two schools. CoDeT aims to scaffold children's collaboration and design thinking in co-design settings characterised by a high child-to-adult ratio (ca. 1 adult for...

journal article 2019

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Creative environments for design education and practice: A typology of creative spaces

Thoring, K.C. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Badke-Schaub, P.G. (author)

This article presents a typology of creative spaces that is relevant to facilitating creative working and learning processes for designers. Drawing on qualitative user research with cultural probes in a design thinking institution, this typology identifies five different types of creative spaces along with five related spatial qualities. The...

journal article 2018