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Overview
In this Summer Course in Innovation and Future Thinking , you 'll be detecting signs of change, organising ideas into comprehensible models, finding new ways to assess possible futures, identifying potential barriers and opportunities, designing innovative ideas, products and services. This course, taught in English, focuses on the strategic, innovative and creative aspects of future thinking. You 'll start with data collection and modelling, explore and adopt narrative development, strategic foresight, prototyping, and find out how to effectively inform users about new products and services. This new know-how will be put to good use in the form of a final project providing solutions for the problems found.
Methodology
Starting from the question, "Why think about the future?" you 'll discover the fundamental concepts of futuring from a theoretical perspective. In this first part of the course you 'll focus on trend identification and analysis, watching out for weak signs and macro trends. This phase is characterised by an observational analysis of urban environments.
Who is this for?
The Innovation and Future Thinking programme from Istituto Europeo Di Design (IED)
is for students and professionals from a variety of fields and backgrounds with one thing in common: a healthy interest in innovation and creative thinking. People looking for new ways to create products, services and business concepts will find the course both interesting and useful with its mix of strategic business vision and product design development. If you want to combine creative skills with a rigorous approach to thinking, this course is a great place to start.
Why choose it?
In this course you 'll develop new forecasting skills and acquire the techniques and tools you need to detect change, as well as an understanding of the dynamics of change in modern society. After this course you 'll be developing concepts, services and products with greater foresight and a strategic new look. You 'll also consolidate your teamwork skills and share ideas using sector-specific language. It 's a course, taught in English, with a strong international focus for students from a wide range of backgrounds and a variety of profiles that is sure to enrich your learning experience. You 'll be studying in Barcelona, a benchmark in the world of design and innovation. Two weeks in a city that leads the field in terms of observational analysis. The city itself will be your case study as you search for and find indicators, behaviours, messages and signs for predicting change.
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Courses include:
- The focus then shifts to creating scenarios, roadmaps and timelines, using retrospection and creative ideas to develop new narratives. Futurists, innovators and designers will show us how to use these techniques to put theory into practice. You 'll study innovation practices and processes and see how they 're used by both major companies and start-ups.
- To finish the course in style you 'll develop a final project to provide long-term solutions for the problems found.
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Duration
- Part-time
- 14 days
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
- Barcelona, Spain
Disciplines
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- For admission to summer courses, candidates must have an Upper Secondary School Diploma and a B2 level English knowledge, and must be aged 18 or over at the date of registration*.
- For ‘Intermediate’ and ‘Advanced’ courses, candidates must be registered on a university programme in the same field of the chosen Summer course; have a Degree or professional experience in the disciplinary area of the chosen course.
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EU/EEA Applies to you
Applies to youEU/EEA Nationals1900 EUR / full≈ 1900 EUR / full
Living costs
Barcelona
Spain
770 - 1360 EUR / month
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