Learning Café EPD28
Empathy & Creative Confidence as Powerful Triggers for Learning
Date Thursday, Dec 6 Time – Room Köpenick I/II/III
This Learning Café will use elements of Design Thinking to gain a different perspective on learning. How can we build creative confidence for people who are more and more challenged by topics they are not an expert on? What can empathy tell us about teachers and learners and their individual needs? We will use a practical exercise to have a common experience and then reflect upon it together.
Moderators
Selina Mayer
Hasso Plattner Institut, D-School, Germany
Selina Mayer has an academic background in business psychology and design thinking. These two fields add up to her overall interest in user-centered design and her passion for human behavior. By developing and conducting various professional education formats at the HPI Academy, she applies these fields of expertise in her working life on a daily basis. Selina facilitates and consults both method focused design thinking workshops, and solution driven long term projects. Having already worked for a globally operating engineering company and for a small Berlin Start-Up she is experienced with very different infrastructures of small, young but also big and traditional businesses. She enjoys the constant surprises and challenges that accompany these various areas and is curious to see what might be next.
Steven Ney
D-Fellow, Hasso Plattner Institut, D-School, Germany
Steven Ney completed his doctorate in the policy sciences at the Department of Comparative Politics in the University of Bergen. Trained as a policy analyst at the University of London, Steven Ney has worked on a wide range of policy issues in a number of research institutes including the LOS Center in Bergen, ICCR in Vienna and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg. After spending four years from 2005 as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University, Steven Ney took up the Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at Jacobs University, Bremen in August 2009. Starting as a researcher of environmental issues, particularly climate change, Steven Ney has developed an interest in analysing the way societies deal with complex and uncertain policy challenges. Recently, Steven Ney has concentrated on social innovation and social entrepreneurship as a means of bringing about institutional change.
Since November 2014, Steven Ney is a D-Fellow at the HPI School of Design Thinking in Potsdam. Apart from developing the international relations of the HPI School of Design Thinking, he is currently designing and implementing a certification process for D-Thinking Coaches.
Links
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