The first day of Design Thinking was incredibly constructive.
At the beginning, each participant defined what the concept of design thinking meant to them, and we also learned about its origins and a bit of its history.
We delved into knowledge about working in interdisciplinary teams, focusing on the user, experimenting and testing, and we learned about the key stages in the DT process, such as: empathizing, defining needs, generating ideas, prototyping, and testing.
Next, we moved on to the practical part, where we worked on solving a jointly selected example problem, which is the shortage of publicly available restrooms in our city.
Under the guidance of our trainer – Magdalena Prech from the company Epsylon, we went through the initial stages of the process.
On the second day, we managed to achieve an extremely difficult task related to solving the problem we identified as the most important on the first day.
We went through the subsequent stages of work according to the principles of Design Thinking.
The creative work tools we learned, such as brainwriting, the breaking technique, mind mapping, the lotus blossom technique, and storyboarding, along with the SCAMPER method, allowed us to reach the prototyping stage, of which all the training participants are extremely proud.
Another very interesting creative work method was Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats, which allows one to look at a problem from different perspectives.
We thank our trainer, Magdalena Prech, for professionally imparting a vast amount of knowledge.
The Active Creative Project – fostering the spirit of cultural and creative entrepreneurship, is funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the “Culture” Program, co-financed by the EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021.
Project partners:
Media Design Association – Project Leader
Association of Municipalities of the Republic of Poland Euroregion Baltic
International Development Norway
