Design Thinking for Food System Innovations
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Course Overview
This training module will introduce you to the Design Thinking Process and how you can apply it create to user-centered solutions for food system challenges including agriculture, nutrition, and food distribution. Design thinking process is a six-stage process that has been proven to help in creation of solutions to real world problems.
Brief history six stages of design thinking
The design thinking process was first developed by David Kelley and Tim Brown of IDEO. It is a methodology that has been refined and used in defining and solving problems from a human-centric perspective. It is an iterative process rather than a linear.
Watch the video below for a quick overview to design thinking.
https://youtu.be/gHGN6hs2gZY?si=iUTvY-Kt7KWj2xM7
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this module:
Learners will be able to explain the six stages of the design thinking process.
Learners will apply empathy to develop innovative solutions for food system challenges.
Learners will understand how to create low-cost prototypes and test ideas using the design thinking process.
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In this section you will gain a deep understanding on how to go about understanding the challenges, needs, and opportunities in the food system. You will learn practical techniques you can use to research about a problem and gain insights about the people experiencing the problem and how they are affected. In addition you will learn how to bring together the challenges/ideas gained from the empathy stage to create a clear, actionable problem statement.
In this section you will learn how to generate ideas and develop creative solutions that address the problem statement. You will also appreciate the importance of developing a tangible, low-cost representation of your solution that can be tested.
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