Initiated by the Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) the office of the Associate Provost for Research Innovation and Creativity, this first collaboration is considered a starting point for a two-year partnership between the HPI D-School and AUC. The cooperation aims at building AUC’s first cohort of Design Thinkers and coaches on the mission to establish AUC’s Center for Design Thinking.
During GDTW participants worked on a challenge provided by Valeo Egypt. Under the headline “Design the automated delivery experience for millennials, in a world where future smart mobility is rapidly changing” members of AUC faculty and staff worked in four teams together with Design Thinking coaches from HPI and AUC, , including an alumna of both AUC and HPI. They learned how to gain empathy, created ideas and built prototypes to improve the experience for delivery customers and delivery service providers.