Innovative Teaching Methodology: a learning process on how to translate design thinking knowledge and tools to Non-Designers

This article presents an educational strategy to spread Design Thinking (DT) among nondesigners (N-D). We challenged the students from Product Design degree, at Fine Arts Faculty (Lisbon University), to create DT Workshops (WS) for N-D. This procedure was carried out over two semesters of the last two consecutive years. Repeating the process allowed us to obtain a set of representative WS and stabilize the following pedagogical practice: (1) Creation and development, (2) Testing and feedback incorporation, (3) Communication, and (4) Academic evaluation. The students were placed at the center of the problem, questioning the objectives of their intervention, and shaping the process communication tools. They switched from “creative way(s) of knowing, thinking and acting” as said by Alain Findeli to “creative ways of sharing”. The findings are based on identifying the likelihood for dissemination of DT to N-D, going far beyond the transfer of know-how ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion