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The sponsored studio program is based on a mutually beneficial, multi-year arrangement between SARUP and the business partner. Two such studios, the IP BIM Studio, coordinated by [https://www4.uwm.edu/sarup/people/faculty/snyder.cfm Associate Professor Gil Snyder]and [https://www4.uwm.edu/sarup/people/faculty/dicker.cfm Adjunct Professor Jim Dicker]in collaboration with Eppstein Uhen Architects, and the Workshop Studio conducted by [https://www4.uwm.edu/sarup/people/faculty/schermer.cfm Associate Professor Brian Schermer]in conjunction with Workshop Architects, have received [http://www.ncarb.org/ NCARB Prizes]for their integration of practice and the academy. Students from a number of sponsored studios consistently participate in a variety of national and international competitions resulting in a host of awards and opportunities.

<div> </div><div>'''Design Thinking Studio'''</div><div> </div><div>''- Course Description''</div>

David Kelley, founder of IDEO, once said: “Designers are more trusted and integrated into the business strategy of companies”. Design Thinking Studio is an experiential and human-centered design course whose goal is for students to come up with innovative design solutions which could boost engagement, productivity, performance, collective learning, and ultimately, individual and organizational growth in work and learning spaces. Design solutions can vary in scale – from a single piece of furniture to a configuration of larger program spaces – and/or in strategy – from introducing new physical objects to incorporating new technologies into the space.

To inspire students, the class will be visiting and exploring some of the exemplary workplaces in Milwaukee and Chicago. Moreover, they will have the opportunity to talk to experts in the field. Accordingly, students will be introduced to the Design Thinking Framework to develop their innovative design solutions for work and learning spaces. The solutions will be collected in a catalog and will eventually be evaluated in review panels based on their innovative potential to impact the architecture/design industry.

''- Area of Focus''

Areas of focus include but are not limited to innovation in: architecture industry, design industry, knowledge management strategies, and learning methods. Some examples of solutions might include: physical-virtual coupling in work and learning spaces, using sensor-network technology to evaluate work and learning spaces, smart workplace furniture, design patterns to increase the likelihood of collisions and serendipitous encounters, etc.

''- Experiential Learning Opportunity''

The class is designed around the experiential learning model. As students go through the Design Thinking Framework, they have to observe and talk to users directly, capture and analyze the dynamics of work and learning spaces, articulate problems and opportunities, ideate in teams and share their solutions with users to receive feedback and iterate, and finally, provide something for the user to be able to interact with.

There will also be review and mentoring sessions in which innovators, entrepreneurs, and people with expertise in innovative learning methods and workplace strategies will help students throughout the process.

''- What to Achieve''

The learning goal on the individual level is to influence the identity of students to become entrepreneurial learners – a generation of learners who constantly look around for new ways and new resources to learn new things and generate new ideas.

The learning goal on the collective level is for students to work together to create a collective catalog/portfolio including all of their innovative solutions that can change work and learning

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