Dear Friends

Thank you for your comments and suggestions both on the list as well as off
list which is much appreciated. I have now uploaded the full course outline
for the University wide course offered on Design Thinking as an elective
across all colleges at the Ahmedabad University. I would appreciate to
continue to receive your support and suggestions as we go forward from
here. This is a semester long course starting next week.

The course outline can be downloaded from my Academia.edu archive here
University wide course on Design Thinking
<http://www.academia.edu/13596219/University_wide_course_on_Design_Thinking>
http://www.academia.edu/13596219/University_wide_course_on_Design_Thinking

With warm regards

M P Ranjan
from my iBook at home
4 July 2015 at 2.25 am IST

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*Prof M P Ranjan*
*Design Thinker and author of blog - www.Designforindia.com
<http://design-for-india.blogspot.com/>*
Adjunct Professor (Design) Ahmedabad University

E8 Faculty Housing
National Institute of Design
Paldi
Ahmedabad 380 007 India

Tel: (res) 91 79 26610054
email: ranjanmp@g <[log in to unmask]>mail.com

<http://www.ranjanmp.in/>blog: <http://www.design-for-india.blogspot.com>
(current and with downloads)
education blog: <http://www.design-concepts-and-concerns.blogspot.com>
(archival)
education blog: http://www.visible-information-india.blogspot.com (archival)
Page on Facebook <*http://www.facebook.com/Designforindia
<http://www.facebook.com/Designforindia>*>
Academia.Edu <http://cept.academia.edu/RanjanMP>
<http://www.visible-information-india.blogspot.com/>
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On 3 July 2015 at 09:21, M P Ranjan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear Jinan
>
> Almost everyone seems to have a problem with the word Design and with
> Design Thinking, this problem is compounded many fold! However, I am not
> giving up on it since a lot of people are coming towards it to seek
> solutions to some of our pressing problems and even if designers from
> typical design schools are not able or willing to address these issues I
> feel this approach will give us a platform to change this impasse.
>
> Design cannot be defined and it will always be a moving target with the
> passage of time. However, we do have some critical characteristics which
> which can guide us like a beacon from a lighthouse on the rock, a metaphor
> worth looking at. Thought and action are closely linked in Design Thinking
> and this can become a way of working adopted by many who wish to explore
> and innovate approaches where many well entrenched disciplines have failed
> when used in isolation. Yes, design is multi-disciplinary at its core and
> therefore it needs to be open to engage with multiple disciplines and draw
> upon the knowledge and tools of all of these. Can it be held by one
> individual? The answer is obvious and it is in the Negative! However,
> change of terminology just postpones the confusion.
>
> Design needs research and can learn about research processes from the
> sciences but it has its own experiences about research at the edge of the
> unknown where attitudes may play a very important role in how one
> approaches issues and facts that may be available as well as how we can act
> when such facts are just not available. These attitudes are hard to develop
> but we need to find ways to sensitise both individuals and teams to be able
> to explore these dimensions.
>
> Perhaps others on the list have some suggestions or experiences about such
> ways of building new sensibilities towards pressing and complex issues of
> sustainability, poverty, conflict resolution as well as social harmony etc,
> to name only a few of our challenges. Design can be replaced by the term
> Politics, since both deal with intentions being translated into short and
> long term actions that generate value. However, both are understood
> differently in our democracy and here Politics has become a numbers game
> and the majority generally wins, unless there is vision and leadership that
> can steer the numbers in a different direction from the prevailing "common
> sense".
>
> Yes, this is a complex challenge and i look forward to more comments,
> critiques as well as suggestions. I have started making a list of design
> thinkers who are not well known but have published their papers on
> Academia.edu in a most generous manner. These may be the thought leaders
> of tomorrow since very few of these thoughts get to the book production
> stage. Which is why I sought the suggestions from this forum for a list of
> though leaders across the nine broad categories that I have used to design
> this new course for the Ahmedabad University. The first area is dealing
> with how we understand design itself and if you have suggestions on the
> very best papers which give us a handle on this complex subject I would
> appreciate your suggestions and from the list members as well. I am using
> John Heskett's book "A Very Short Introduction to Design" as a key
> reference for student reading since he has organised his book from Objects
> to Futures with communications, systems and services falling in place in
> the intervening pages. This book was originally published as "Toothpics and
> Logos" but it goes well beyond the corporate bandwagon os FMCG goods and
> services.
>
> I am yet to find a great introduction to design and would invite list
> members to try and write this potential best-seller of the future! If it
> already exists do let me know.
>
> Thank you for your thoughtful intervention. Our first session starts next
> week on Tuesday, wish me luck!
>
> With warm regards
>
> M P Ranjan
> from my (new) iPad a home
> 3 June 2015 at 9.20 am IST
>
> Prof M P Ranjan
> Independent Academic, Ahmedabad
> Adjunct Professor (Design) Ahmedabad University
> Author of blog : http://www.designforindia.com
> Archive of papers : https://ahduni.academia.edu/RanjanMP
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 03-Jul-2015, at 7:27 am, Jinan K B <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear Ranjan
>
> I feel the real challenge would be to conduct a course like this with out
> using the word DESIGN THINKING. A course on creativity would also demand
> this kind of an approach. these are not just mental ideas which they have
> to remember and talk about but a way of being which needs to be instilled
> seamlessly.
>
> I once conducted a course at NID on Indian Culture. Here again I asked
> students to explore culture experientially with out using the term culture.
> After all culture is not out there but what you are how you live etc.
>
> just sharing a thought.
>
> Jinan,
> 'DIGITAL MEDIUM IS A TOOL.DIGITALLY  MEDIATED KNOWLEDGE DESTROYS THE BEING'
>
> http://sadhanavillageschool.org/
> https://www.youtube.com/user/sadhanavillagepune
> https://www.youtube.com/user/jinansvideos
> www.re-cognition.org
> www.kumbham.org
> reimaginingschools.wordpress.com
> http://designeducationasia.blogspot.com/
> http://awakeningaestheticawareness.wordpress.com/
> http://awakeningaestheticawareness.blogspot.in/
> 09447121544
> 0487 2386723
>
> On 2 July 2015 at 21:25, Ranjan MP <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear Mattias Arvola
>
>
> Thank you for the link. I will check it out.
>
>
> With warm regards
>
>
> M P Ranan
>
> from my iBook at home
>
> 2 July 2015 at 9.25 pm IST
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *Prof M P Ranjan*
>
> *Design Thinker and author of blog - www.Designforindia.com
>
> <http://design-for-india.blogspot.com/>*
>
> Adjunct Professor (Design) Ahmedabad University
>
>
> E8 Faculty Housing
>
> National Institute of Design
>
> Paldi
>
> Ahmedabad 380 007 India
>
>
> Tel: (res) 91 79 26610054
>
> email: ranjanmp@g <[log in to unmask]>mail.com
>
>
> <http://www.ranjanmp.in/>blog: <http://www.design-for-india.blogspot.com>
>
> (current and with downloads)
>
> education blog: <http://www.design-concepts-and-concerns.blogspot.com>
>
> (archival)
>
> education blog: http://www.visible-information-india.blogspot.com
>
> (archival)
>
> Page on Facebook <*http://www.facebook.com/Designforindia
>
> <http://www.facebook.com/Designforindia>*>
>
> Academia.Edu <http://cept.academia.edu/RanjanMP>
>
> <http://www.visible-information-india.blogspot.com/>
>
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>
>
> On 2 July 2015 at 18:13, Mattias Arvola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> Dear M.P.,
>
>
> Thanks for sharing! I did a project course this spring that you could get
>
> some inspiration from. It combined impact mapping and design thinking in
>
> the context of IT-based services.
>
>
> http://www.ida.liu.se/~TDDD75/index.en.shtml
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Mattias Arvola
>
>
> Associate Professor in Cognitive Science
>
> SICS East Swedish ICT Research Faculty
>
>
> --
>
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>
> Department of Computer and Information Science
>
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>
> Phone: +46 13 285703
>
> Visit us at: www.liu.se
>
>
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