51-773 Design Center: Design Thinking for Social Innovation

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

During the course students will 1 look at the role of design and proven practices and frameworks from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors to identify root cause problems 2 understand the roles, skills, and tools that are often used to leverage change in existing communities and organizations and 3 experiment with the ways that multidisciplinary teams in a variety of contexts can advance social change through innovation. In the second half of the course, students will build on earlier work and intensify their use of design thinking to conceptualize a solution to a specific Pittsburghbased problem.

Prerequisites: none listed

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