Track Title: Design Thinking - Industrial Desgin

Track Chair: Scott Shim, Ohio State University, shim.14 AT osu.edu

Track Description:
Design thinking is a generative ideation method that helps people to think outside of the box with expanded vision for the future. It combines diverse and sophisticated elements beyond the obvious tangibles to establishing what the future can be rather than what the future should be. Design thinking has recently emerged as a multi-disciplinary subject for exploring new opportunities and challenges of today’s commodity culture that tends to emphasize services design and user experiences.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

• Design & Culture
• Design Development
• Design Process
• Design Research
• Design & Social Responsibility
• Design & Technology
• Design Thinking
• Service Design, User Experience