Resource Person: Dr. Sachin Napate
Duration: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm
Date: 3rd October, 2020
Venue: Smart room
Objectives:
- To enable faculty to think in an innovative manner
- To think innovatively in academics
- To use innovation in the current situation to make learning more effective for students
Description:
Dr Rashmi Paranjpye opened the session by welcoming Dr. Sachin Napate and all the participants. Dr.
Sachin Napate started the session quoting live cases where innovative thinking has been adopted. Design thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems and create innovative solutions to prototype and test.
He continued explaining five phases involved in thinking innovatively: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test—it is most useful to tackle problems that are ill-defined or unknown.
He then elaborated on the importance of designed thinking. He explained that the world had transformed a lot much after cognitive scientist and Nobel Prize laureate Herbert A.
Simon- first mentioned designed thinking in his book The Sciences of the Artificial, in 1969 which led to the contribution of many ideas.
While telling about the applicability of designed thinking, he said that professionals from a variety of fields, including architecture and engineering,
subsequently advanced this highly creative process to address human needs in the modern age.
Twenty-first-century organizations from a wide range of industries find design thinking a valuable means to problem-solve for the users of their products and
services. The session also included on explaining the five stages of designed thinking i.e. Empathise, define, ideate, Prototype, Test with the help of examples
The five stages were explained during the FDP with the help of examples.
Dr. Sonali Saha, Associate Professor thanked the resource person and all the participants present