In our session held via zoom on April 7th, 2022 at 4:00 pm (CEST) / 10:00 am (EDT), we welcomed our speakers Lynne Martin, Strategic Lead for Design for Business at V&A Dundee, and Annie Marrs, Lead Officer at UNESCO City of Design Dundee. Lynne and Annie talked about “Entangled Values: The Power of Networks”.
How might we recognise and amplify shared values in a way that grows and nourishes our communities? What do mushrooms and museums have in common? Strategic Lead for Design for Business at V&A Dundee, Lynne Martin, explored these topics and shared the ambitions for Design for Business in the future, together with Annie Marrs, Lead Officer at UNESCO City of Design Dundee.
Lynne Martin, Strategic Lead for Design for Business at V&A Dundee
With a background in business support for Scotland’s creative economies, Lynne has witnessed first-hand the transformational effect design thinking can have on communities, businesses, and individuals. It’s her mission to make design thinking and its benefits accessible to everyone committed to solving problems and driving positive change in Scotland. In her creative practice she tinkers about with the Scottish folk tradition through performing folk songs and storytelling and she’s always up for chats about heritage, storytelling, music and all things Scotland.
Annie Marrs, Lead Officer, UNESCO City of Design Dundee
Annie Marrs is the Lead Officer with Dundee’s UNESCO City of Design designation. As the UK’s first and only UNESCO City of Design, Annie and her team work to use design to improve the lives of people who live in Dundee. Annie’s role has included delivering the biannual Dundee Design Festival, coordinating local and international exhibitions to showcase Dundee’s design talent, and collaborating with international partners in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Passionate about the role that culture, creativity, and design places in developing vibrant successful places to live, Annie’s previous work has included delivering Dundee’s Cultural Strategy through a partnership approach and she is an expert in the repurposing of underused city centre spaces for cultural and design activity.
On April 30th, 2024 Prof. Jeanne Liedtka from University of Virginia shared the insight from her most recent book, The Experimentation Field Book: A Step-by-Step Project Guide, co-authored with Natalie Foley, David Kester and Elziabeth Chen, published in February, 2024.
At our GDTA Spotlight session on July 29th, Hoda Mostafa and Reham Niazi from the The American University in Cairo as well as Richard Perez, Phuthehi Masilo and Lucille Roberts from the Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking at UCT talked about “Building a global virtual d-school: Co-creation and collaboration”.
The last online session took place on November 21st, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. (CET). We welcomed our speaker, Can Güvenir, Design Manager and lecturer at Yaşar University.
In 2022, the Global Design Thinking Alliance (GDTA) set out to celebrate Design Thinking coming of age, as well as the discipline’s global expansion.
In our session held via zoom on February 17th, 2022 at 3:30 pm (CET) / 9:30 am (EST), we welcomed our speaker Jeanne Liedtka from UVA Darden School of Business.
On June 27th, 2023 we welcomed Vindhya Umapathy, Design Thinking Lead at CMR University (Bangalore, India). She spoke on the topic of “Fostering Design Thinking Mindsets amongst University Students“.
At our GDTA Spotlight session on November 12th, Maria Stashenko, Director, Design Thinking Center Moscow, talked about “Innovation Pace in Times of Pandemic: Research Insights”.
Michael Lewrick, bestselling author of The Design Thinking Playbook and AI and Innovation, leads an inspiring session exploring how Artificial Intelligence is transforming Design Thinking practices worldwide.
In a discussion with GDTA President Uli Weinberg, Ricardo Ruffo and Reinaldo Campos from Echos Innovation Lab in Brazil shared how they are creating online Design Thinking learning experiences between Australia and Brazil.
At the GDTA Spotlight session on April 26th, 2023, we welcomed Dr. Linda J. Hickman, Associate of the London School of Economics. She talked about “Design Thinking for Startups.”
The D-School Potsdam is stepping into a new chapter! With a fresh brand identity and an updated teaching structure, they continue to push the boundaries of Design Thinking education. At the GDTA Spotlight: “Crafting Tomorrow”, Monika Frech, co-head of the academic program team shared
Martin Schwemmle: “Future Skills Navigator: Upskilling Humankind For a Better Future”
Transform with Design presents examples of creative organizations across industries and geographies, and recounts the stories of how they adapted design thinking to build their innovation capabilities. Written by leading industry experts and design-thinking scholars, the book features ten anecdotal experiences by professionals who detail the implementation of design thinking as it unfolded for them. Contributors share how they navigated the many barriers and obstacles they encountered along the way and describe their experience from early beginnings to the present, revealing valuable lessons for anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation.
Remember the experiments and challenges you faced while starting a new project? Before 2019, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu didn’t dream a small idea would turn into so many new research projects, competitions to encourage students to innovate and the first D-School in Romania.
Western University is a large, public university in Canada with 11 faculties and schools. Since 2013, they have slowly built up the presence of Design Thinking across the university.
The GDTA Spotlight session on March 23rd, 2023 was about “Art thinking and design thinking in University College Cork: An innovation ‘marriage’ made in heaven.”