Course: Solving Sustainability Challenges with Te Ao Māori (Māori World View)

Te Awa Koiora (the River of Life). Te Awa Koiora is a term given to a group of three short courses – Te Tauihu, Te Taurapa and Te Takere. Te …

User testing User testing is the fifth stage of Stanford’s Design Thinking process and it helps to improve a design to make it more usable. Real users are asked for …

Further Study At the Waikato Institute of Technology., in Hamilton, New Zealand we offer the following courses: A 15 credit level 6 Design Thinking launchpad where we introduce tools to …

Congratulations. Over the last 3 weeks we have learnt about the importance of a bicultural perspective when problem solving. We have applied a Design Thinking process, learnt about biculturalism in …

What is Prototyping A prototype is a way of showing our ideas in a tangible way very early on. Prototype as a word comes from the Greek prototypos which means …

Congratulations for completing week 2 of Solving Sustainability Challenges with Te Ao Māori. This week we have defined the challenge by understanding the different perspectives. We have then ideated and …

Stage 3 – Ideation Ideation is the third stage of the Design Thinking process. In this stage we brainstorm solutions to our challenge – to the “pains and gains” and …

Welcome to week 2 of Solving Sustainability Challenges with Te Ao Māori. This week we will delve further along the design thinking process, as it applies to sustainability, biculturalism and …

Congratulations for completing week 1 of Solving Sustainability Challenges with Te Ao Māori! This week we have had a quick reintroduction to the design thinking process while learning about Aotearoa, …

Interviews The next two tasks are both videos from people who are associated with the Waikato River. We created an interview guide to help us uncover what they believe the …

Empathy and Mindsets Empathy is the first stage of the design thinking process. In this stage we are learning as much as we can about our challenge. As our challenges …

Clean Water and Sanitation – United Nations Sustainability Goal 6 The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals were created as a call for action by all countries (developed and developing) to …

Before we explain Design Thinking, lets see what people have to say about it. Have a read through the following quotes which are from Curedale (2016): Design Thinking is an …

Welcome to the course Welcome to Solving Sustainability Challenges with Te Ao Māori (Māori World View). This course offers you a chance to solve a sustainable challenge using a bicultural …

Introducing Claudine and Aidan Kia ora, hello, its great to have you all here and we hope you enjoy the course. Lets start with some quick introductions. Claudine Waitere is …