What if school slowly taught you to stop thinking creatively?
Richard Perez argues we are born curious, experimental and driven to learn, then gradually trained into narrower ways of thinking.
In this conversation with Rob Hersov, the head of UCT’s d.school explains why education, universities and businesses struggle with complex problems, and why creativity, failure and multidisciplinary thinking matter more than ever.
They discuss:
• Why education can suppress creative confidence
• Why experts often jump to solutions too quickly
• How design thinking changes the way people approach problems
• Why engineers, lawyers and accountants struggle with uncertainty
• Why failure should become part of the innovation process
• Whether universities are losing relevance in the age of the internet
• How South Africa could approach complex problems differently
• The future of creativity, leadership and education
• UCT’s d.school and its work across business, government and society
From voting and gender-based violence to housing, water security and the future of universities, this conversation asks a bigger question: are we teaching people to solve problems, or simply teaching them to follow established systems?
Chapters
00:00 Education Suppresses Creativity
00:51 What Is UCT’s d.school
03:00 Design Beyond Products
05:00 Growth Mindset And Education
08:00 Why Experts Struggle With Uncertainty
09:07 Learning To Trust Your Gut
10:30 Engineers And The Wrong Problem
11:58 Exploring Complex Problems
15:00 Why Multidisciplinary Thinking Matters
18:00 Changing The Individual Mindset
19:55 Creativity And Science Fiction
23:00 Engineering Versus Design Education
27:00 The Origins Of The d.school
28:28 Stanford, SAP And Hasso Plattner
32:00 Design Thinking In Africa
35:00 Gender Based Violence And Complex Problems
38:00 Libraries, Insurance And Mobility
41:00 Can Design Thinking Work Online
44:00 Learning Through Making
46:00 Rob Hersov Joins The d.school
48:00 Failure As A Learning Process
50:00 Why Universities Face A Relevance Crisis
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