Invitation to join us for ...

18-24 May 2015

Hanul GabroveniBucharest

Romania

@ Romanian DesignWeek 2015

Temporary Studio

The temporary studio is a spontaneous design-studio by DesignThinkers Group, open during the Romanian Design Week

We will facilitate creative dialogue between visitors, designers, experts, artists and all who want to join us in finding new ideas and opportunities.

We believe that there is a fundamental match between the Design Thinking approach and the Romanian attitude and mentality, that can lead to constructive answers and solutions. Our action is a call to get cracking, a positive opposing force in times of crisis, and the expression of the power and importance of design in all the areas of society.

Design has become a broad and collective

process. DesignThinkers Group touches down

in the heart of the Romanian Design Week.

Be-wondered, passionate and cheerful,

we engage the world around us in what we

do. We inspire, challenge, invent and connect.

DesignThinkers,Temporary Studio.

~Albert Einstein

‘The best way to predict the future is to design it’

~R.B. Fuller

at Hanul Gabroveni, Str. Lipscani nr. 86-88.

Monday 18th Tuesday 19th Wednesday 20th Thursday 21th Friday 22th Saturday 23rd Sunday 24th

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CorporateChallenge co-creation

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This is us...Who are you?“Corporate”

Talk to me about: "What can Design

do for your businesses?”

BARCAMP, PROTOTYPING, COWORKING Playground

Let's design, build and test a Coworking Space for Bucharest!

10:00-17:00

Business Innovation Course

@Maastricht School of

Management

10:00-14:00

Entrepreneurship Course

@Eastwards Prospectus

Gallery

10:00-14:00

SocialEntrepreneurship

Course @

Eastwards Prospectus

Gallery

Corporate Challenge co-creation

SocialChallenge co-creation

This is us...Who are you?

“Design research”

This is us...Who are you?

“Social design”

Open co-creationsession:

“Think like a Startup”

Open co-creation session:

“Service Design Thinking”

Open co-creation session:

“Service Design Thinking”

Talk to me about: "What can Design

do for you?”

Talk to me about: "What can Designdo for government

and society?”

Temporary StudioPROGRAM OVERVIEW

Innovation workshop Innovation workshop Innovation workshop Business design Your design Social design Barcamp

The program can be subjected to changes.For updates, details and registration please go to www.designthinkersTS.com or emailinfo@designthinkersTS.com

Open Co-creationsession

@Biz Innovation

Forum

Paid workshops at other locations Free sessions at DesignThinkers Temporary Studion @ Hanul Gabroveni

Daniela Marzavan is Senior Associate DesignThinkers SpainDaniela lectures “Design Thinking and Human Values” at the HTW Berlin and at the ELISAVA Barcelona. She researches at the Bauhaus-University Weimar the phenomena of Design Thinking within organizations. As a DT practitioner, former entrepreneur and community shaper she advises NGOs, governments and companies.

Simone Veldema is Senior Associate DesignThinkers and owner of GreenbizStartupSimone is a strategic designer who works at the front-line of innovation and sustainability, with focus on economic growth, redesign, cocreation and business model innovation. She has co-developed a new ‘Design for the Sustainable Future’ method to enhance business models. She is also involved as initiator or advisor in various start-ups.

The workshop is organized with the help of Beatrijs Overdijkink Beatrijs is owner of Bucharest based Beatwork, has a Master in CulturalScience and a background as policy adviser, communicationwith a background as policy adviser, communication manager and fund-raiser in the public sector in The Netherlands and UK.

The Facilitators

DesignThinkers GroupDesignThinkers is one of the leading ‘design driven’ Innovation Agencies helping organizations around the world making the transition from being strictly product orientated and sales driven, towards being service orientated and human centered. We help organizations design Brands, Product Service Systems and Cultures of Trust. To strengthen their capability to innovate and enable the cocreation of value with all stakeholders. Find out more @

Rares Tatu is a Service Design Intern at DesignThinkers NetherlandsRares’s keen interest is to explore the possible match between the Romanian mindset and design thinking. His focus is as much on designing new services as well as re-designing and revamping existent services to current socio-economical contexts.

www.designthinkers.com

Business Innovation Course@Maastricht School of Management

What will you learn?

We will offer you a common level of understanding of the Design Thinking principles, key tools & terminology. Our main objective is to provide you with hands-on tools that you can use immediately the next day in your working environment.

The tools we will practice on these dates are: Stakeholder MappingValue Network MappingPersonasCustomer Journey Mapping.

Participants will work closely together with the trainers in discussing the following questions:

• How can you successfully apply Design Thinking in a complex business environment? • How can you build empathy inside an organization, use customer feedback, create insights and translate them into implementable opportunities?

• What is the value of design and how can you use it to your personal and organizational advantage?• What are the fundamental principles of innovation and Design Thinking?• How can you create stakeholder and sponsor buy-in? How can you successfully implement innovations?

Who should attend?

This workshop is open to professionals from any industry who want to learn new approach-es to problem solving.You should have some responsibility for,and experience with, problem solvingwithin a company or organization.

Costs:

The fee for the workshop is € 375 for Compa-nies, € 250 for individals (ex VAT).(Including lunch, drinks & snacks).

For more information please contact:

This training will focus on new business models, innovations and building service ecosystems in order to create more value for internal and external clients and other stakeholders.

Monday 18 May 2015

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Entrepreneurship Course@Eastwards Prospectus Gallery

What will you learn?

We will offer you a common understanding how to use design thinking to identify and achieve your business goals and create new business models. You will learn how to create revenue-boosting new products and services using design thinking and how to improve the customer/user experience to create more loyal, profitable customers.

Participants will work closely together with the trainers in discussing the following questions:

• How can you support your clients with their job to be done? • How to quickly leverage new technologies and services into a ‘lean’, strong and more profitable business?• What is the value of design and how can you use it to your personal and organizational advantage? • How can you create stakeholder buy-in? How can you successfully implement innovations?

• How to use design thinking to create a better customer experience and more fit products and services.

Who should attend?

This workshop is open to all entrepreneurs from any industry who wish to learn new approaches to doing business.

Costs:

The fee for the workshop is € 150 (ex VAT).

For more information please contact:

The training will revolve arround the steps that should be made and tools that can be used in designing a startup business, or revamping an existing model.

Tuesday 19 May 2015

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Social Entrepreneurship Course

What will you learn?

Participants will get the opportunity to learn Design Thinking, practice the process and to work with others on how they are bringing it back to their work places. There will be a specific focus on facilitating collaborations in complex problems, working on emergent processes, designing solutions with stakeholders and developing skills in empathy and human-centred design.

Participants will work closely together with the trainers in discussing the following questions:

• How can you successfully apply Design Thinking in a complex problem solving approach• How to design solutions with a deepening sense of empathy and a human centred approach• How to implement Design Thinking in the questions we ask and explore• How to create valuable solutions with an impact

• How to design in a reflecting process for constant changes such as policy. • How to test assumptions in an iterative process

Who should attend?

Individuals working and collaborating to make a difference. Participants from a diverse background who want to learn the methodologies, mindset and process of iteration, prototyping, empathy and problem-framing of Design Thinking.

Costs:

The fee for the workshop is € 100 (ex VAT).

For more information please contact:

The focus this day will be on co-creation, human centeredness and how to create an innovative mindset based on value and impact creation.

Wednesday 20 May 2015

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@Eastwards Prospectus Gallery

Daniela Peukert (design:transfer GER)Daniela Peukert is product designer, desig researcher and author. She is co-founder of design:transfer, a research group which observse, analyzes and reframes the changing role of design research as a transdiciplinary science. Her work focuses on health, demographic change and mobility. She conducts her PhD at the Leuphana University on the role of design in transdisciplinary research.

Marieke van DijkMarieke works at the intersection of Design, Internet Research and Innovation using Design Thinking as a creative process for problem solving. She worked on a broad spectrum of strategic assignments, expertise in creating digital strategies for large organisations, including service eco-systems, digital product innovations, data storytelling and social innovation.

Dr. Emma Jefferies (DesignThinkers Group UK)Emma is a Design Researcher and helps design team and companies reflect and improve their practices as the Design Doctor. With a background in Interaction Design, her PhD in Design, writing in Design and work with global design companies Emma explores how design practices develop. Her work is based on a passion for supporting the development of people in the creative sector and their ideas.

Andrea Augusten (design:transfer GER)Andrea Augsten is Design Researcher and Expert for Future of Design andTransdisciplinarity. She is co-founder of design:transfer, a research group dealing with the intersection between academical design research and business. She teaches Design Theory at different universities in Germany and conducts her PhD within the Innovation Center of VW. Also she is a Member of TT30 of Club of Rome.

Amir Hoshia (Whiteboard IL)Amir is managing partner of Whiteboard a business design firm working with companies and organizations to re-think and re-innovate their value proposition. Cracking complex business challenges built upon years of multidisciplinary senior management, Amir develops innovative services and products and focusing on Innovaton within the Israeli StartUp Context.

Special guests that come to meet you:

Henriette Waal (Dutch Design Award nominee)Henriëtte is an artist/designer in Amsterdam. She completed her education at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the department 'Man and Public Space.' She explores processes of change, customs, social patterns and local relations within the context of the public domain. Along with physical design scenarios and interventions, strong analysis is vital in her practice in addition to making texts, images and films.

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