At a glance
- Jointly delivered by the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London, this multidisciplinary summer school teaches undergraduate students to tackle world challenges through service design.
- Students joined from Chinese universities including: China Art College, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Southeast University, Southern University of Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and Zhejiang University.
- Students explore global challenges in climate change, health, and cyber security, proposing innovative service designs to address them.
- The programme offered insights into data science and robotics, alongside opportunities to meet graduate entrepreneurs launching design innovations into the commercial world.
- Through interactive workshops and a group project, students developed skills in design thinking, team-building, and presentation.
- Participants benefited from a leading research community and engage with student ambassadors through a variety of social activities.
“Enthusiastic, encouraging and professional teachers will lead you to develop your abilities and create your own projects by sharing a wealth of knowledge.”
Studying Industrial Design at Xi'an Jiaotong University
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Our methodology
49 contact hours spread over seven days covering lectures, workshops, tutorials, project work, social activities and relevant visits.
Students were allocated in small groups for project work, which was carried out through team-based learning with supervision. They presented final projects in groups to a panel on the last day of the programme. The team with the best project was awarded a prize.
Developing a network of purpose-led innovators
Students came away with the skills to:
- Analyse and evaluate the impact of climate change on society and the environment.
- Analyse and evaluate the impact of major global diseases and the changing future of healthcare policies and innovations.
- Analyse and evaluate the challenges of the internet and new frontiers in cyberspace/digital media security that companies face.
- Understand how advances in robotics and data science technology are transforming the future.
- Apply service design tools and develop a service to tackle a global challenge.
- Understand how businesses differentiate and compete in global markets, and to define and build business models to establish competitive advantage.
- Understand how technology are transforming marketing and advertising.
- Develop and practise valuable professional skills in team building, leadership and presentation.
- Develop and employ team-building skills to work as a team towards a group design project.
How your organisation can benefit from RCA custom short courses
Through our portfolio of innovation masterclasses and workshops, the RCA provides senior-level professionals and business leaders with critical business skills. We deliver courses for businesses, organisations and universities on design thinking, service design, creative leadership, disruptive innovation, entrepreneurship, human-centred design, artificial Intelligence and healthcare design.
We can tailor the curriculum for a day, a week, or several weeks over the course of a year with interrelated projects. Courses can be delivered online, on-campus, hybrid or at partner organisations. Previous courses have been delivered in Dubai, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Germany and Mexico.
Find out more about Custom Executive Education.
Ready to evolve your institution’s design curriculum?
Enquire about a custom executive education programme. We’d love to learn more and discuss your requirements.
Or email Hattie Allen, Executive Education Manager.
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