Systems Thinking

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The ability to draw causal relationships between interrelated elements. Analyze problems in a systemic context (e.g. organization, city, society), tackle deeper ‘wicked’ problems and be more likely to find effective approaches. 

Case Studies

  • Expanding the circle

    Expanding the circle

    The aim of this activity is to teach students how to see and look for questions. Its a priming activity that students will look back onto. The activity is to take students outside to a grassy space and give each student about a circle of  10 cm diameter to observe and are asked to find…

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  • Circular Design for Recovery

    Circular Design for Recovery

    Ulla Reabild Design School Kolding, BA Fashion & Textiles We teach circularity, but how to understand circularity as something outside resistance full loop models? The fashion industry claims circularity is possible through regenerating fibers. What might that entail from a design or from a manufacturing perspective? And how can we influence the recovery process through

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  • Triple P.O.V. Storyboarding

    Triple P.O.V. Storyboarding

    Students are working on a project that involves multiple stakeholders, whose needs must all be taken into consideration after having created service design concepts.  To stimulate students to think through different points of view, they are asked to create three storyboards, each for the most important stakeholders. Students are asked to first start with the

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  • Service Diagramming

    Service Diagramming

    In a twelve-week Service Design course, students are developing ideas that involve multiple touch points, channels, platforms and interactions. To enable students to grasp, articulate and comprehend this inherent complexity, they are instructed in creating a service diagram. This is challenging because to this date, these students have only been trained to draw singular products/interactions

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