The HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program strives to apply rigorous academic methods to understand how and why Design Thinking innovation works and fails.
Multidisciplinary research teams from Stanford University and HPI work on diverse topics concerned with Design Thinking, its process, method, interaction patterns and tools in order to investigate the phenomena of innovation.
From June 27st until June 29st 2012 the HPDTRP Community Building Workshop of the Design Thinking Research Program took place place at Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam.