Custom Design Workshops

Workshops for industry and start-ups are available that are customized to your current ‘messy, indeterminate, situations’ and opportunities at your facilities. 

The workshops use the case method of teaching and learning to capture the problems you are facing.  This allows design learning to occur with company teams on problems that are immediate and relevant to the business, while developing advanced engineering design methods learning, and important reflective practice methods. 

Boisot (1998) and Henderson (1998) describe knowledge that lies in the ‘ineffable’ domain.  In this domain knowledge cannot be put into words without significant information loss.  This implicit knowledge can only be transferred through socialization (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995) where the problem (captured as a case) acts as a mediate to facilitate this knowledge transfer.  Because the context is also important for this learning (Nonaka and Konno, 1998), the workshops take place at the company facilities and under the coaching of expert design clinicians and teachers. 

Once the cases are developed, they remain available to use for future training and hiring aptitude tests. 

Experts know more that they can say (Schön, 1987, Nespoli 2021).