Monday March 12th, 2018

Wochenzettel 18,10:
Design-Thinking at the Social Innovation Lab

The new semester of Master Design and Media course at the Hochschule Hannover began for us students with an appearance at the Altenpflege Messe in Hanover. We took a small part of the large aveneo stand, which drew the visitors to its green carpet with the slogan „room for innovation“. Our presence was intended to represent the master’s programme of our Hochschule and further establish the method of design-thinking.

After the Monday started with the installation of our work area, welcome talks and wraps, we could already prepare ourselves for the topics of the coming days. The following day we were inspired, especially through conversations with a bright senior group, to develop new concepts, products and ideas in a thematic area that will hopefully affect each one of us one day – age. After gathering the needs and insights, the groups dedicated themselves to the problem statements and allowed many new ideas to develop.

The biggest benefit of our workplace was that the news could be discussed directly with industry experts and thus a lot of feedback was collected. On Thursday, the last day of the fair, we presented our results on stage and were thus able to bring attention to both the degree programme and the design-thinking-method through a large audience. And we could even make contacts in a wide variety of areas.

Amelie Mädge