Cultural differences
One of the most enriching aspects of any international exchange is the opportunity to experience a new culture up close. Over the past week, working together with students from Georgia…
Day 7 – Seminar (Final Presentation)
The final day began with final preparations and coordination within the team to ensure everything was ready for the presentation. We then held a full rehearsal of the presentation, followed…
Day 7 – Final pitch at viadee
On our final presentation day, we took a deep dive into our topic: sustainability. All of the German students rode their bikes to the viadee office when the rain started…
Day 6 – Seminar (Prototype)
Tuesday was all about prototyping. Coming off the momentum from Monday, where we had selected our most promising ideas, we were ready to bring those concepts to life. Since working…
Day 5 – Seminar (Define and Ideate)
On Monday, we met at 9:30 and almost immediately started working. After four days together, our group had developed a strong team dynamic, allowing us to work efficiently on the…
Day 2 – Seminar (Empathize and Ideate)
The day started with a joint meeting at the university, where we reviewed the agenda and discussed the goals for the day. First Working Phase:During the first working phase, we…
Day 1 – Seminar (A Warm Welcome and a Promising Start)
Today marked the exciting kickoff of our Design Thinking Workshop, a collaborative effort between Universität Münster and Georgia College and State University. Bright and early, we welcomed our American guests…
Creating a Design Thinking Project Plan
The goal of this assignment was to create a plan for our week together that we could follow. Each group created their own plan so that we could compile a…
The Big Case Reveal
Introducing viadee and the ECOnGOOD Challenge During our Design Thinking Workshop, we collaborated closely with viadee, an IT consultancy based in Münster that specializes in digitalizing IT processes. viadee’s goal…
First Team VR Meeting – Group 4
For our first global team meeting in virtual reality, we coordinated a time that worked for everyone via WhatsApp. This was already quite a challenge due to the time zone…