If you are a Stanford Master’s student, you might be interested in taking a d.school class this winter. Below are brief descriptions of the classes we are teaching (or go here for a pretty version Download CloserLookWinter2008.pdf)
Design for Agile
Aging
(MED 279Y; CS
379Y)
TTh 3-5, 4 units
per quarter
Email:
winograd@cs.stanford.edu
Maintaining mobility
is critical to successful aging. Impaired mobility limits daily activities and
independence. For individuals who are already mobility-impaired, or are at risk
of becoming so, small improvements in mobility can dramatically improve quality
of life. This two-quarter interdisciplinary course sequence is designed to
explore innovative ways to integrate computer and device technologies with
behavioral and social interventions to maintain and enhance mobility in
seniors. In project team, students draw upon perspectives from Computer
Science, Design, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Medicine to develop
interventions that will address the potential of people to maintain vitality
and mobility as they age. Students need not take both courses, although
students must take the Winter course in order to enroll in Spring.
Teaching Team:
Anne
Friedlander, Stanford Center on Longevity
Carol Winograd,
Medicine and Human Biology
Terry Winograd,
Computer Science
Paul Yock, Medicine
and BioDesign
Transformative
Design
(ENGR 231)
MW 5:30-7PM, 3-5
Units
Email:
broth@stanford.edu
Designed products
have always had tremendous impact on individual, social and cultural behavior.
This project-based course investigates how interactive technologies can be
designed to expressly encourage behavioral transformation. Class sessions will
be structured around interdisciplinary discussion of topics such as
self-efficacy, social support, and mechanism of cultural change in domain such
as weight-loss, energy conservation or safe driving; accompanying lab sessions
will familiarize students with basic hardware and software tools for
interaction prototyping. Students will work in teams to create functional
prototypes for self-selected problem domains for the final project.
Teaching Team:
Bernard Roth, Mechanical Engineering Design Group, d.school
Sarah S. Lochlann
Jain, Cultural and Social Anthropology
Wendy Ju, d.school
Bill Moggridge, IDEO
K-12 Learning Lab
Independent Projects
Times and Units
Flexible
Email:
swise@stanford.edu
The K-12 Learning
Lab has major projects with the Nueva School, East Palo Alto Academy Charter
School and the Henry Ford Learning Institute. We’re building spaces, courses,
and partnerships to bring design thinking to young people. We are looking for
students who want to bite off parts of the projects and work on them
independently. The overall team will meet together every other week to share
learnings and prototypes.
Lab Director: Susie
Wise, d.school
Entrepreneurial Design For Extreme Affordability
(OIT 333/334; ME
206A/206B)
MW 10-11:45AM, Th
Lab 7-9PM
4 Units,
registration in both Winter and Spring quarters required
Limited
enrollment via application available at extreme.stanford.edu on Nov. 5, 2007.
Due no later than Nov. 16.Email: extreme-info@lists.stanford.edu
Entrepreneurial
Design for Extreme Affordability is a two-quarter project course in which
graduate students design comprehensive solutions to challenges faced by the
world’s poor. Students learn design thinking and its specific application to
problems in the developing world. Students work in multidisciplinary teams at
the intersection of business, technology, and human values. All projects are
done in close partnership with a variety of international organizations. These
organizations host student fieldwork, facilitate the design development, and
implement ideas after the class ends.
The first quarter of
the course (Winter 2008) immerses students in the fundamentals of design
thinking. Students learn the design process experientially as they are coached
through a number of fast-paced design projects, culminating in a real-world
project with local partners. In parallel, the course gives students a
background on business, technology, and development, and an introduction to our
international collaboration partners. By the end of the quarter, students will
form teams and begin their capstone spring quarter project. The second quarter
(Spring 2008) is devoted to developing comprehensive solutions to these design
challenges. Teams will develop empathy with all stakeholders so that they can
develop a solution that fits into the culture, aspirations, and constraints of
their target users. Teams will iterate on their designs and business models
through a rapid sequence of prototyping and testing. Students also will
interact with entrepreneurs who have launched ventures in the developing world,
including several alumni from the class. The final deliverable is a product or
service framed in a comprehensive implementation plan including the business
model, the technical innovations, the cultural rationale, and the appropriate
next steps. The course culminates in a professional presentation to the
international partners and a panel of industry experts.
Teaching Team:
Jim
Patell, Graduate School of Business
Dave Beach,
Mechanical Engineering
David Klaus,
d.school
Innovation in
Complex Organizations
(MS&E 282 A,
B)
Time TBD, 3
Units, Enrollment limited to 12
Email:
Robert.sutton@stanford.edu
The purpose of this
course is to offer students a chance to pause, discuss, and integrate design
thinking and innovation in business in a small seminar, case-study format. This
centerpiece of this small seminar will be three or four “live” case studies where,
executives from large, complex organizations come to class and describe their
efforts to move creative new ideas from inception to implementation. Past cases
have included Google AdSense, P&G, NASCAR, Method Home, and General Motors.
They will describe how their organizations screen and move along promising
ideas and how their organizational practices facilitate and impede that
journey. Student teams will analyze each case and provide recommendations to
the executives, who along with the teaching team, will judge the work. The
final project will be a general analysis and set of recommendations about this
vexing organizational problem. This course is co-sponsored by the d.school and
STVP (Stanford Technology Ventures Program).
Teaching Team:
Michael Dearing,
d.school
Robert Sutton, Management Science & Engineering and d school
Business Practice
Innovation (BPI)
(MS&E 287)
WF 3:30-5PM
Email:
Robert.sutton@stanford.edu
3-4 Units, Letter
Grade, Enrollment Limited to 12, No Auditors
Treating Business
Practices as Prototypes. In this small, team-based, multidisciplinary class,
students will work in dyads or larger teams. They will apply the design process
to specific practices (like talent management, organizational design, and
communication with external stakeholders) in organizations that may include a software
firm, a professional services firm, and an airline, and treating the targeted
practices as prototypes. The course will provide hands-on experience in
collaboration and design, in the context of tackling real problems in real
businesses.
Teaching Team:
Debra
Dunn, d.school
Kris Woyzbun, IDEO
Robert Sutton, Management Science & Engineering and d school
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