DT class at RM Workshop A @ Yushan Academy 

Rapidly emerging new technologies are disrupting the world in an accelerating speed - people call the age we live in VUCA ERA, which is full of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. How can we better  understand what the future holds; navigate and learn new ways to create change and innovation?

UWC Changshu China Yushan Academy Centre for Design and Innovation will host its first Weekend Workshop which are open educational opportunities to local and wider communities. We invite Tonya, Shanghai Ambassador for SingularityU (https://su.org/) and her Breakline Education team, to share and teach young individuals to use innovative methodologies to transform their lives. With access to first-hand information of future studies and industry innovation methods, students can learn in a fun way to be perceptive, observative and creative with Visual Thinking; and to think forward, manage risk, and fast adapt in a changing environment in the Foresight Workshop. Be the next generation of innovative leaders with global view through our integrated innovation workshops! 

Visual thinking Workshop 

What Is Visual Thinking?  

Visual thinking is the ability to organize and synthesize information into patterns. As a methodology, it started from 1970s related to both psychology and critical thinking. Since then, it has played an important role in art and design education over the past decades. 

The tool itself can create better scenarios for innovation, deep reflection, dialogues and engagement, to open up pathways to stimulate the thought process and problem solving. In this way, it helps to generate ideas, as well as reflect and edit them in the process of thinking. Nowadays, it has become a highly demanded skill for innovation. 

Workshop Hosts Facilitator： 

Leire Reparaz Berrade holds a Bachelor Degree in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation from MTA, a projectbased innovative school. She has trained herself the ability to use visual thinking in Make it Visual, D-school of Stanford University. She has co- founded Go For Visual, and hosted visual facilitation in more than 50 schools and companies in China and worldwide,    including    Fudan    University,     Tokyo University, Budweiser, General Motors, Bayer and so on.