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Design Thinking for Sustainable Development 

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Design Thinking for Sustainable Development
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Overview

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

1,114

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Design Thinking for Sustainable Development
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Design Thinking for Sustainable Development
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FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate.
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Design Thinking for Sustainable Development
 at 
FutureLearn 
Course details

Skills you will learn
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  • On this four-week course, you will discover how you can use the Design Thinking methodology for a human-centred problem-solving approach.
  • You will build confidence in your decision-making as you use Design Thinking techniques to overcome barriers in sustainability, with a focus on the people you are trying to help.
  • This course allows you to experience how Design Thinking works in a safe environment, before implementing these techniques to help develop sustainable solutions.
  • You will be introduced to the SDGs before choosing one to conduct high-level research to help you solve a sustainability challenge.
  • This practical exercise will help you understand effective techniques such as creating meaning from interview and secondary data and how to expand ideation.
  • Guided by the specialists at Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec), you will learn to identify each stage of the Design Thinking process to help you understand which stage a project is in.
  • By the end of the course, you will feel confident in your decision-making skills to help you develop solutions that advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and other areas of social good.
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Design Thinking for Sustainable Development
 at 
FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Design Thinking and Empathy

Introduction to the course

Design Thinking and Sustainability goals

Empathy

Reflection

Define and Ideate

The Define Stage

The Ideation Stage

Reflection of Define and Ideation

Prototype and User Test

Introducing Prototyping

User Testing

Reflection

Refine and Reflect

Refine and Communicate

Reflection's and next steps

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