Hasso Plattner Institute

On Wednesday, 26 October, the participants of the Languages through Lenses competition are guests at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam.

The Insitute was founded to promote a special innovation culture, the School of Design Thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI D-School) has been offering the first academic advanced training in Design Thinking within Europe since October 2007. It is the biggest academic institution that offers this education programme according to its sister institution, the “Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford” (d.school) at the Stanford University in California.

Design Thinking is a user-centric innovation approach for developing products, services and concepts for any field and originally pioneered from the Silicon Valley. The revolutionary concept of the Design Thinking approach is to group students in small multi-disciplinary teams of five to six so they can develop better solutions in small teams than individual experts or single-discipline teams ever could.

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