Design Thinking has gained momentum in the world’s leading companies, such as Netflix, Apple, Google, HBO, Samsung, World Bank, and General Electric. They have embraced Design Thinking to improve their customer experiences. At its heart, design thinking is a process for solving problems by prioritizing the consumer’s needs above all else. It relies on observing, with empathy, how people interact with their environments, and employs an iterative, hands-on approach to creating innovative solutions.
We’ve designed this program to give you a basic understanding of the foundations of Design Thinking skills and a practical understanding of the proven creative problem solving process.
During this session, our faculty team of design experts will introduce you to the basics of Design Thinking and the key principles of empathizing, defining, ideating, prototyping, and testing solutions to problems.
In this short course, participants will:
Krista Franco is Program Director and Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and serves as the program’s resident designer and production manager. In addition to technical production and design courses, she teaches a course in Arts Entrepreneurship. She has held faculty and designer positions at Washington and Lee University, Sweet Briar College, Randolph College and Connecticut College. Krista has designed for the Athens Theatre, the School of Theatre at Florida State University, and Ole Miss Theatre & Film as a visiting guest artist. Franco has also worked as a scenic artist at several prestigious regional theatre companies, including the Utah Shakespearean Theatre Festival, Goodspeed Musicals and Yale Repertory Theatre. In 2006, she co-founded Endstation Theatre Company, which produces regional new work, site specific theatre and unique theatrical interpretations each summer in central Virginia. She runs the company’s Professional Apprentice Program and recruits students from colleges and universities throughout the country to collaborate with Endstation’s core group of theatre artists. Franco continues to sit on the board of directors, while also serving as the company’s production manager and resident scenic designer. She is a professional member of The United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) where she is the Vice Chair for Design & Technology Committee.
This course is a short three-hour in-person “hands-on” workshop to be held at the Stetson University Deland campus, classroom TBD.
9 am-12 pm.
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