Programmes

The Everyday Entrepreneur is a 3-day immersive programme designed for UCT students who want to approach life with creativity, adaptability, and purpose. It’s not about starting a business – it’s about learning to think and act like an entrepreneur in whatever you do.

d-camp is an interactive, design thinking bootcamp that introduces you to the core mindsets, tools, and ways of working through a design thinking learning experience. In one focused day, you’ll learn by doing – working in teams to tackle real challenges and experience design thinking in action.

Calling all registered UCT and other Higher Education Institution students. If you are under the age of 35, we invite you to join us for a fast and impactful 5-day immersion in Design Thinking which can enhance your ability to navigate an uncertain world and become more competitive in the job market. This course will introduce you to the key mindsets and problem-solving methodologies of design thinking. You will learn how to develop innovative human-centered solutions in agile, multidisciplinary teams.

If you’re a registered student under the age of 35 and a current undergraduate looking to enhance your skills to become more competitive in the job market, this is for you. This course will introduce you to the key mindsets and problem-solving methodologies of design thinking. You will also learn how to develop innovative human-centred solutions in agile, multidisciplinary teams.

An exciting, interactive, and unique online programme in Design Thinking. Participate in a competitive, trans-African challenge and gain exposure to real-world problems, advancing the critical thinking skills that are so desperately needed in solving the problems of our world today.

Design Thinking for Learning Designers is an online short course offered through UCT’s Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT), developed in collaboration with d-school Afrika. The course supports participants to work through a design thinking process while tackling a real-life learning and/or teaching challenge – exploring context-sensitive solutions in multidisciplinary groups, prototyping ideas, gathering feedback, and refining outcomes through iteration.

Our course for professionals, Design Thinking In Practice, is an immersive, deep-dive introduction to design thinking where you will learn how to co-create solutions for complex, real-world problems using design thinking methodologies.

Introduction to Design Thinking is a programme specifically designed to provide UCT staff members with the opportunity to enhance their critical thinking capabilities whilst working in diverse, multidisciplinary teams on real world problems. The programme simultaneously aims to build confidence in dealing with uncertainty and ambiguity as well as a human-centered approach to problem solving.

No two businesses or organisations are the same – the same can be said about employees, work policies, real-word challenges, and business hours. That’s why we work with you to develop a customised design thinking programme. Every aspect of the course, everything from duration to the content covered, is customisable to suit the needs of a specific business and organisations.