• Build empathy with your customers
• Conduct customer research and uncover fresh insights
• Ideate collaboratively and effectively to get to fresh new ideas, driven by customer insight
• Decrease new concepts risk and uncertainty through targeted prototyping and testing
• Build, rethink and redesign business models around the needs of users
• Apply innovation approaches to address sustainability challenges
• Visualise, storytell and communicate ideas
• Collaborate with remote teams on innovation challenges

For the Design Sprint Camp we are working with The Carbon Trust.

The Carbon Trust is an international climate change and sustainability consultancy. Working alongside them we have created a climate challenge that will be worked on across the course.

“Achieving net zero means accelerated change in the way we live. Climate Action isn’t one challenge. It’s a myriad of interconnected challenges. Collectively we need many new skills. We have to redesign our way of life – our everyday products and services. We have to find, test, and apply new discoveries. At speed. That’s why this Sprint Camp is so important. Yes, we are looking for breakthrough ideas and we have a focused project challenge to address with you. But above all, the world needs an army of practical innovators with the skills and will-power to drive change at the frontline of business. We look forward to sharing our know-how and learning together on this Sprint Camp.”

Emma Copham, Manager, Breakthrough Team, Carbon Trust

To get an insight into some of our previous client challenges from our Design Thinkers Bootcamp, read this blog.

This Design Sprint Camp is part of our long-term commitment to organise Sprint projects that deliver what we call Responsible Revolutions – innovating collaboratively to meet the needs of people and planet.

Over the years we have run a multitude of Design Sprints with companies in transport, fashion and technology. One of our previous Sprints was with multinational software corporation SAP. The Sprint involved 15 companies whose actions could make a big difference, such as Unilever, Coca-Cola and more. From this 3-day Sprint ‘The Plastics Cloud’ was born.

Today the Plastics Cloud is integrated into SAP’s fast developing environmental sustainability programme. It is helping scores of SAP customers manage plastic-use more effectively using the world’s largest business-to-business network, to create a global marketplace for suppliers of recycled plastics and plastic alternatives.

Watch the video to learn more about the project.

We have also delivered Design Thinking open courses to thousands of participants. These courses have a 99% recommendation rate and an overall rating of 4.6/5.

Former delegates have come from:

We’re delighted to announce the line-up of speakers for our upcoming Design Sprint Camp. Bringing together experts and specialists from anthropology and ethnography, as well as from the world of sustainability and design, we can’t wait to get started on the Sprint and learn from this inspiring group.

Gillian Tett 

Gillian Tett is a British author and journalist at the Financial Times, where she is chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. In 2014, she was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards and was the first recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award. In June 2009 her book Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spear’s Book Awards. 

Gemma Curtin 

Gemma Curtin is the co-curator of Waste Age – What can design do? running at the Design Museum from 23 October 2021. The exhibition exposes our ‘take, make and waste’ economy, which has created an environmental crisis. It explores what design can do to rethink the way we produce and consume goods, how waste can be transformed into a valuable resource and how new materials and systems can reduce waste and the impact on our planet. Gemma is a Curator at the Design Museum where she is responsible for many exhibitions covering contemporary architecture, product design and fashion.

John Thackara 

John Thackara is a writer and curator working in the realms of social, ecological and relational design. He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years, first in Amsterdam, later across India; he was commissioner of the social innovation biennial Dott 07 in the UK, and the French design biennial, City Eco Lab. In 2019 he curated the Urban-Rural expo in Shanghai. Now, as visiting professor at Tongji University in China, he is developing an event called LIfeworlds about ecological restoration and multi-species design. 

John Bielenberg 

John Bielenberg is a designer, entrepreneur, and imaginative advocate for a better world. He is the founder of Project M, and co-founder of Future, Common, Thinknado and 3rdActivist.  

John has won more than 250 design awards in his career, including the 2013 AIGA Gold Medal for leadership in the design for good movement. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art staged a solo exhibition of his work in 2000. In 2003, John Bielenberg created Project M, an immersive program designed to inspire and educate young designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers by proving that their work—especially their “wrongest” thinking—can have significant impact on communities. Project M has developed projects in Alabama, Baltimore, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Detroit, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, Maine, Minneapolis, Montana and New Orleans. 

In 2016, John co-wrote a book called Think Wrong that inspires people to conquer the status quo and do work that matters and in 2021 will launch Thinknado, a “tornado thinking” toolkit. 

Tim Ogilvie 

Tim Ogilvie is the Founder of Peer Insight, the US-based innovation consultancy, and is a Partner in PX Venture Studio, its venture-building arm. His practice merges creative design thinking with savvy business strategy to help clients explore new services and business models. Tim has launched innovative products, services, and businesses for companies such as Nike, Johnson & Johnson, AARP, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Procter & Gamble. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, where he teaches design thinking.