Starts July 21: [Call for Participants] Design Thinking for Beginners Workshop
Experience ”Design Thinking”, a global standard for a way of thinking to create innovation.
Overview
Date and time
Tue, Jul. 21, 2026 - Tue, Aug. 4, 2026
Venue
S4-202, 2nd floor, South Building 4, Ookayama Campus
Workshop dates
1st session: Tuesday, July 21, 2026 5:15 p.m. - 6:55 p.m.
2nd session: Tuesday, July 28, 2026 5:15 p.m. - 6:55 p.m.
3rd session: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 5:15 p.m. - 6:55 p.m.
Language used
Japanese (English support available)
Capacity
About 40 participants
Eligibility
Science Tokyo students (Priority will be given to undergraduate students.)
*This workshop can be taken as a part of an Entrepreneurship Course.
Students are also welcome to participate in this workshop as a one-time attendee.
Outline
Many start-ups and large corporations, including Google and Apple, have adopted design thinking as a basic approach when developing new products and services.
By experiencing the basics of design thinking through its five distinctive steps: empathy, problem definition, creation (conceptualization), prototyping, and testing, you will experience and practice the concepts of creative confidence and user centricity of design thinking.
This is the perfect workshop to experience design thinking for the first time, even if you are familiar with the term but are wondering how to put it into practice.
Since you will work in groups with a diverse range of participants regardless of grade level or major, you can also build new networks through this workshop.
Facilitators
CEO, Digital Surf Co.,Ltd.
After gaining experience in the IT industry, Mr. Iimori moved to Silicon Valley in the United States in 1999. He joined the founding team of a startup in the early days of the internet (now Google) as the director in charge of Japan. After working at a marketing firm, he went independent.
After completing his graduate studies in engineering, Mr. Sawai worked as a mechanical design engineer in the manufacturing industry and later served as a division manager in the e-commerce apparel sector. He currently works as a freelancer, designing and facilitating workshops aimed at fostering innovation.
- Center for Entrepreneurship Education
- Entrepreneurship Workshops offered at Leadership and Innovation Section
- Center for Entrepreneurship Education Slack channel (Science Tokyo members only)
- Entrepreneurship (Leadership, Value Creation) Courses Slack Channel (Science Tokyo members only)
Leadership and Innovation Section, Center for Entrepreneurship Education