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Design Thinking and Social Innovation Workshop
What is the 'Design Thinking and Social Innovation' Workshop?
The Designing Thinking and Social Innovation Workshop is a 2 hour experience offered for university students and young professionals in Japan who want to make a positive difference in the world. Learn the potential of the design thinking process to spur innovation through lessons from VIA’s Exchange for Social Entrepreneurs & Leaders program and the Stanford d.school.
What You Will Gain:
You will walk away with sharpened skills and a concrete understanding of the design
thinking process to use immediately in your everyday lives at home, work or school.
Workshop Format and Themes:
The workshop is a highly interactive experience! You will not only hear about design
thinking examples, but also experience the entire process yourself. Get ready to understand challenges deeply, make new solutions and test your prototypes!
We will also discuss how design thinking is being used in these broader contexts:
⇢ Social Innovation
⇢ 21st Century Leadership
⇢ Creative Changemaking
Click here to apply and register for one of the May 2014 workshop sessions!
How do I register in 3 steps?
Step One: Select your workshop date and location
- May 10–SATURDAY – TOKYO (2-5PM) ⇢ KEIO University
- May 11–SUNDAY – TOKYO (2-5PM) ⇢ KEIO University
- May 16 -FRIDAY- HIROSHIMA (6:15-8:15PM) ⇢ Hiroshima Culture Center (Hondori)
- May 18- SUNDAY- KYOTO (2-5PM) ⇢ "+Acumen Chapter Opening"
- May 19- MONDAY - OSAKA (5:30-7:30PM) ⇢ Osaka University
Step Two: Fill out the online registration form by May 9th - click here
Step Three: Wait for email confirmation with exact location and time.
Please note:
- the Tokyo, Hiroshima and Osaka workshop fee is ¥1000 for students (discounted) / ¥2500 for young professionals; for Kyoto the fee is ¥1000 for HUB Impact Members and ¥1500 for all others
- most of the workshop will be conducted in English!
Check Out More Below!
Learn more about the VIA’s Exchange for Social Entrepreneurs and Leaders (XSEL) program in Stanford and San Francisco this August. Click here!
XSEL Participants at Stanford's campus
d.school at Stanford
Participant Presentation
Yi Zhang- Stanford Social Innovation Program Director
Yi Zhang is passionate about facilitating learning experiences that cultivate creative changemakers. Through her work as the Program Director for VIA's social innovation exchange programs at Stanford, she has seen the potential for design-thinking to spark creative and effective solutions for social issues as well as personal challenges. In addition to design-thinking obsessively to make her own life more inspired and impactful, she has been working with instructors at the Stanford d.school, the Extreme by Design film project, New Sector Alliance, Fight for Light as well as universities in Asia to share the potential for human-centered design through workshops in the US, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Via Programs Exchange for Social Entrepreneurs and Leaders (XSEL)
Exchange for Social Entrepreneurs and Leaders (XSEL) program. Click here!