Course: Introduction to Design Thinking & Maker Culture, Topic: Unit II: Challenging the Humanities

Unit II: Challenging the Humanities

Buckminster Fuller and students with first built dome

This unit explores how those in the fields of humanities and heritage can contribute to human-centred design and humanities-focussed innovation. It will be split into the following lessons:

2.1.1 What the Arts and Humanities Bring

2.1.2 The Gap, the Digital Divide and the Need for Human-Centric Design

2.1.3 Digital Social Innovation

2.1.4 Change Adapter / Change Maker

2.1.5 Visionary Design for Continuous Change

2.1.6 Looking Back

2.1.7 Organisations, an Arts and Humanties Approach

2.1.8 Art as Enabling Human-Centred Design

2.1.9 Making Strange / Making Sense

2.1.10 Designing to Shape and to Share