Designful Innovation
Make an impact on one billion people
Take up the challenge to design a meaningful innovation for 1 billion people. In a transformative programme consisting of different thematical weeks on Trend Watching, Cross Cultural Competencies, Creative User Research, Creative Concepting, Making and Prototyping, Business modelling and Exposition Design, students gained the knowledge and insights to change existing situations in the world.
From August 2023 until January 2024, students were challenged to take the next step from ‘problem solving design’ to ‘sense making design’ (Bannon, Kolko).
It was again a pleasure and honour to work with students from different universities of Applied Sciences in and outside the Netherlands. Students who showed a curious and open mindset.
The students designed innovations that over time could benefit a substantial part of the world. Students gained deep insights about users and relevant stakeholders. They defined and reframed problems, in order to generate solutions or alternative approaches that are more effective than those that already exist.
With a persistent and critical mindset all the students managed to be creative and to come up with great ideas and innovations.
All the students exceeded their own expectations. We wish all the students success with their further studies and life. We are going to miss the 2023- 2024 student group!
Enjoy the innovations!
- Team Designful Innovation 2023 - 2024