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—Pioneering students on the first pilot Foundation Programme in Design Thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking at UCT — May 2016.

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Congratulations to the first pilot class of 2016. Not present in photo — Marina Jin, Lethabo Motswaledi, Mehul Sangham,Amy Sinclair, Matthew Westaway and Rael Futerman.

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The d-school’s pioneer students

Kristen Abrahams, PhD. Health and Rehabilitation Science, Faculty of Health Sciences Adedolapo Akin-Adetoro, MSc. Information Systems, Faculty of Commerce

Philemon Arito, PhD. Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment.

Armand Bam, PhD. Business Administration, Faculty of Commerce

Luet Buys, MArch. Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment

Mark Jackson, MSc. in Project Management, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment.

Raushan Jeram, Hons. Economics, Faculty of Commerce

Marina Jin, MSc. Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment

Shuhei Kato, MSc. Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment

Mehul Sangham, PhD. Innovation, Faculty of Commerce

Stefan Louw, MPhil. Energy and Development Studies, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment

Lethabo Motswaledi MSc. Geomatics, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment

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Thandazile Moyo, PhD. Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment

Gwamaka Mwalemba, PhD. Information Systems, Faculty of Commerce

Travis Noakes, PhD. Film and Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities

Joan Ongodia, MSc. Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment.

Kate Rinehart, MPhil. Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences

Tasneem Rossouw, MA. Speech and Drama, Faculty of Humanities

Irani Sangham, Masters in Multimedia, Faculty of Commerce

Amy Sinclair, LLM. International Law, Faculty of Law

Nomfundo Sibiya, PhD. Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences

Claire van Wyk, MSc. Environmental Science, Faculty of Science

Matthew Westaway, MSc. Geomatics, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment.

Michaela Woelk, MSc. Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Faculty of Science Th

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— Richard Perez, d-school director

“We are entering a future where the need for innovation and new outcomes is crucial and where the challenges that we face are becoming more abstract and ever more complex. The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking at the University of Cape Town is a place where creative intelligence is unlocked, and where future-ready innovation leadership is developed.”

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Richard PerezDirector of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking at the University of Cape Town.

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A warm up exercise in the early days of the Foundation Programme in Design Thinking —From left to right Nomfundo, Kristen and Thandazile (and Michaela in the background).

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The HPI d-school at UCTInnovation through design-led thinking

In May 2016, the d-school team and the pioneering postgraduate students celebrated the successful completion of the first academic programme in design thinking held in the region.

On 18 May students in their multidisciplinary teams presented project solutions to industry and government project partners. This was followed with Friends and Family Day on 24 May at which student teams presented their projects to supervisors, friends and family members, and enjoyed a graduation ceremony.

These events brought to a close the first pilot Foundation Programme in Design Thinking of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking at the University of Cape Town.

The programme ran over 10 weeks in the first semester, for two full days per week. Students came

from every faculty of the university and represented a wide variety of disciplines: from health sciences to IT, from engineering to humanities and social science, and from law to science. They learnt to work in multidisciplinary teams of four to six students; each team guided by a professional coach.

The teams worked on real world challenges provided by the d-school’s project partners from the corporate, public and start-up sectors.

Working on these projects, the students were taken through a programme of learning the tools and process of design thinking, towards ultimately developing a design thinking mindset.

The d-school’s Foundation Programme in Design Thinking teaches students a human-centred, collaborative

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process for developing creative and innovative solutions to complex real world challenges. The d-school’s transdisciplinary, experiential learning programme is unique in this setting.

The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking at the University of Cape Town (d-school) is the only academic institution in the region which offers academic training and capacitation in design thinking to university scholars and professionals in the public and private sectors. The d-school was founded in Cape Town in August 2015 with funding, IP and academic support from Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner — co-founder of software company, SAP AG, and chairman of its Supervisory Board — and the Hasso Plattner Trust.

The establishment of the HPI Schools of Design Thinking at Stanford in the US, and at Potsdam in Germany,

brought academic rigour to design-led innovation practice, and made training programmes in design thinking available to academic scholars and leaders in the private and public sectors. The HPI d-school at the University of Cape Town is developing a context-responsive programme aimed to suit students and practitioners from South Africa and the African continent. Our semester-long programmes in design thinking take place twice a year, in the first and second semesters. Students who are registered at the University of Cape Town for Masters and PhD programmes are eligible to apply.

An Advanced Programme in Design Thinking will be launched in 2017 for students who have completed the Foundation Programme in Design Thinking.

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Luet presenting to the group in the d-school studio.

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Matthew working on prototyping.

Marina and Joan practising interviewing.

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Gwamaka during a presentation session with Rael, Mark and Claudia in the background.

Adedolapo, Lethabo and Travis interviewing users.

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Tim Brown and Richard Perez.

Welcome to the d-school.

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Richard, Keneilwe and Professor Francis Petersen at the graduation of the d-school students on Friends and Family Day.

Jocelyn Wyatt and Tim Brown of Ideo.org and Ideo with Mugendi M’Rithaa at the conversation between the d-school team and Ideo.

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Low-resolution prototypes developed by the students to make their ideas tangible for the purpose of testing with users.

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Low-resolution prototypes developed by the students to make their ideas tangible for the purpose of testing with users.

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“Really valued the insight that people were reluctant to rent out their own vehicles and the ideas for how we might build this into our business model.” — Rent-My-Ride (Industry project partner)

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Project Presentations

— Team Pineapples

Team Members Kristen Abrahams (Health and Rehabilitation Sciences)Luet Buys (Architecture)Raushan Jeram (Economics)Shuhei Kato (Mechanical Engineering)Mehul Sangham (Information Systems / Innovation)

Project PartnerRent-My-Ride

Team ChallengeThe challenge was to understand peer-to-peer car rentals in the South African sharing economy, through an understanding of value-trust relationships. This resulted in the following research question: Using Rent-My-Ride as a platform, how might we enable participants to connect around shared values [culture of reciprocity] in a world where the current trust model is based on finance for accountability?

Team Proposal The team response was Inspire Learn Grow — a Rent-My-Ride platform to foster trust and development amongst car owners as part of the Rent-My-Ride business model.

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— Team Cultivate

Team MembersStefan Louw (Energy and Development Studies) Lethabo Motswaledi (Geomatics, Engineering)Gwamaka Mwalemba (Infomation Systems)Joan Ongodia (Civil Engineering)Irani Sangham (Information Systems)Michaela Woelk (Environmental and Geographical Sciences)

Project PartnerStandard Bank (Pty) Ltd

Team ChallengeThe challenge was to re-imagine banking services in the future in the South African context.

Team ProposalThe team responded with Grow your Community Fund - Enabling communities to empower local entrepreneurs (who have no credit history) to access financial capital, how social capital can lead to financial capital.

Integral to this proposal was how social capital can lead to financial capital. A strong focus on the South African context produced an innovative solution.

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Keneilwe with Thandazile and Philemon at the project partner presentations.

Shuhei, Raushan and Kristen putting the final touches to the project presentations.

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Claire, Taz, Nomfundo, Adedolapo and Mark present to project partners.

Gwamaka, Lethabo, Mark, Joan, Irani and Michaela present to project partners.

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Nomfundo presenting on Friends and Family Day.

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— Team d-Humans

Team Members Adedolapo Akin-Adetoro (Information Systems)Mark Jackson (Project Management, Engineering)Nomfundo Sibiya (Medical Micro Biology)Claire van Wyk (Environmental and Geographical Sciences)Tasneem Rossouw (Speech and Drama)

Project PartnerStandard Bank

Team ChallengeThe challenge was to re-imagine banking services in the future in the South African context.

Team Proposal The team response was an online networking and matchmaking platform for SMMEs that provides information and tools to help create new and beneficial relationships between businesses so as to support their growth and help mitigate the risks they face.

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— Team Trains On Time (TOT)

Team MembersArmand Bam (Business - Disability Studies) Marina Jin (Chemical Engineering)Travis Noakes (Film and Media)Amy Sinclair (Law)

Project PartnerTransport Cape Town

Team ChallengeThe challenge was to redesign how transport nodes might catalyse economic development.

Team ProposalThe team response was “Open Plumstead” — a two-pronged approach to inform the TOD framework; The Plum Tree Network (PTN), and a toolkit of events/activities for the network to implement within the community.

This proposal aims to bring residents together to inform future developmental plans, and build social integration.

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Marina, Travis, Armand and Amy present to project partners.

Annie, with the Transport Cape Town representatives, Lee Stolworthy and Vernon Munsamy, in discussion with the teams who worked on the TCT project.

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Philemon, Thandazile, Armand and Stefan, with Rael in the background.

Thandazile, Kate and Armand (who stood in for Matthew) present the team project to friends, family and supervisors.

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— Team TCT2

Team Members Philemon Arito (Civil Engineering)Thandazile Moyo (Chemical Engineering)Kate Rinehart (Development Studies)Matthew Westaway (Geomatics, Engineering)

Project PartnerTransport Cape Town

Team ChallengeThe challenge was to redesign how transport nodes might catalyse economic development.

Team ProposalThe team’s response was building relationships between the private sector, City of Cape Town (CoCT), and residents of Plumstead in an inclusive approach to transit-oriented development (TOD) framework implementation.

Their proposal prompted the engagement between society, government and developers and aims to facilitate citizen integration in Transport Oriented Development plans.

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Irani with Kristina Plattner at Friends and Family Day.

Professor Francis Petersen, Deputy Vice Chancellor of UCT, at the Friends and Family Day.

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Thandazile talking about design thinking to her colleagues who attended Friends and Family Day.

Rael and students at the Friends and Family Day.

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Celebrating Friends and Family Day.

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The d-school team and students at the last reflection session for the first pilot Foundation Programme in Design Thinking.

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Richard PerezDirector

Dr Keneilwe MunyaiProgramme Manager

Dr Rael FutermanProgramme Manager

CoachesNele HillerEduard KieserAnne van Niekerk

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—With special thanks for the support of the HPI School of Design Thinking in Potsdam, Germany.

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