Doing the d.school

The d.school at Stanford University is rightly famous for providing cross-course supplementary education in design thinking to all students studying degrees there. As Scott Doorley - one of the directors of d.schools Environment Collaborative - says, the place has a "culture of prototyping; a bias towards action, doing rather than thinking, doing as a way to think, we need to have spaces which people can think together in, make it very easy to embody thought - anything that makes it easy to experiment and express an idea." The Make Space: how to set the stage for creative collaboration book records some fabulous examples of how they have generated cheap, prototypical elements to let them 'play' with learning.