Design is not what we see around us every day. Amazing smartphones, shoes or furniture are results of a certain process which represents the real nature of the design. Design Thinking or Human-centered design are common terms used to represent the same thing - making something viable and feasible for people around us.
Course term: 312.08. - 23.08.
Free seats: 5
Price: 800 €
Category: Personal Development & Communication Skills
Status: Available
Deadline: 30.06.2019
Design Thinking represents a mindset, set of methodologies or framework to tackle complex problems. The Design Thinking Bootcamp will help you to understand context, get valuable insights, come with innovative ideas, experience the power of quick iterations and handle the struggles of launching a product or service. You will become a researcher, strategist, storyteller, designer, developer and entrepreneur during two weeks. This course is going to be focused rather on practice than theory and reflects all elements of a Learning by doing methodology. All work is going to happen in teams through discussion and mentoring in a casual style of teaching.
The Design Thinking Bootcamp follows the course Designing digital product while the difference is in the learning outcomes and class setup. Joining both courses is recommended because The Designing digital products course helps you to gain a craft where the Design Thinking Bootcamp deals with philosophy and collaboration.
Course is running: Monday - Friday, 9:00 - 14:00
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Petr Kozlik
CVPetr Kozlik is a multidisciplinary designer with experiences from the US and Europe. As a designer, he prefers to focus on meaning before aesthetics and explore the powerful combination of design and technology with keeping human beings in the first place.
He experienced fields as fin-tech, e-retail, digital marketing, education together with several startups and agencies. He works as a product designer in Seznam.cz and stands behind the 2FRESH academy in Prague. He holds a master's degree in Interaction design at Malmö University, where he was able to connect dots between multidisciplinary experiences and explore the power of teamwork. Mr. Kozlik has been teaching for European Summer School since 2016.
You will receive an official Certificate of Attendance upon completion of your course. Please inform the organizing staff if you require any extra supplements, such as Transcript of Records. The student is eligible to receive up to 5 ECTS credits, however please follow the instructions here and consult the acknowledgment process with your university in advance.
Course fee includes the course itself, application fee, study materials, Prague public transportation ticket for 2 weeks, afternoon/evening social activities and events, welcome drink and goodbye graduation party. Other expenses, such as meals, accommodation, insurance, personal expenses, extra activities (such as trips outside of town over the weekend and entrance fees), and required equipment (i.e. pencils, paper for illustrations) are not included in the price.
Please note, after the 30th of April 2019 there will be a late enrollment fee charged in the amount of 50EUR on top of the course fee.
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"I came to the design thinking course to learn and get an overview of this approach, it helped me a lot to figure out the design process. Now i feel more confident with the methodology. The materials shared were really valuable and the course was taught in the best possible way. I really enjoyed it and I higly appreciated the activities that ESS was proposing everyday. You can discover and enjoy the city, you'll live in an international context and you'll make for sure new good friends. At the end of the courses there's a cerimony where everyone can shows the output and also get a certificate. I was in team with a Portugeuse engineer and a Japanese master student, we worked on a project for a pharmacy of Prague. I'm happy to remember the time we spent on it and all the great moments I shared with the participants of the summer school. Thank you ESS! It was definitely an amazing experience."
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Design Thinking Bootcamp
2015
Besides massive new illustration skills, I learned how much you can achieve in only two weeks. I met likeminded people who are open minded and fun to hang out with.The summer school helped me to develop professionally, but most of all it gave me more self esteem in this field of work.
Personal Development
2017
ESS brings together people not afraid of engaging in something completely different from what they’re used to doing back home. It’s a great way to meet and interact with young people representing different cultures and as such – a definite opportunity to spend quite possibly the best couple of weeks in your life if you’re curious, enthusiastic and open to new experiences. Also, Prague is absolutely amazing!
Illustration Practice
2015
I really liked it. The teacher was really good at his job, he could help you no matter what you were trying to illustrate with whatever technique. For me, as someone with absolutely no art experience whatsoever, it was unclear what exactly illustration practice entailed. I had the idea beforehand that it would be more of a drawing course. Nevertheless the course was really valuable: it got me going. The most import thing I learned is probably that you shouldn’t be afraid and just do and try, it will come to you eventually. The course was really helpful. The activities were really nice.
