Tech-enabled Innovation Studio

This is a design studio of SPD theme 1: Strategic Design for Technology-enabled Innovation.

Do you fancy technology? Nice, because nowadays, innovation is frequently centred around emerging technologies. Strategic design can play a central role in making sense of those emerging technologies and helping organisations and ecosystems apply those in their innovation process.

In this hands-on course students go through all the steps and challenges of a strategic design project in the context of tech-enabled innovation.

You will work on real client projects focused on different technologies and on different application areas (healthcare, mobility, energy transition, finance etc), spanning from technology exploration to developing tech-enabled value propositions.

You will learn how to adapt key strategic design capabilities to this specific context and how to integrate the use of tech-enabled prototypes and experiments in the different phases of the strategic design process.

You will bring together the different perspectives needed to solve the puzzle by setting up multi-actor collaborations (i.e. designers, developers, data-analysts, product owners etc) around the project.

Data is a great basis on which to motivate and justify the integration of technology into the design process and the product. Thus, the course will also zoom in on use of data in a strategic context, by looking at how thick/thin and big/small data can be used as an input throughout the strategic design process. You will learn how data can be used as a means of sense-making, analysis, presentation, and evaluation to facilitate strategic decision-making.

And while innovating, you will reflect on the ethical and legal aspects of the applied technology, such as GDPR and inclusivity perspective.

At the end of the course, students will present their work to real-life stakeholders in a presentation and a report.