The Center for Design Thinking provides students with a framework to explore how to get where they want to be through its Designing Your Post-Grad Life workshop.
“I know what I want but I don’t know how to get there,” Brynne Aresnault said.
The fear of being lost after college is a normal and recurrent feeling among third and fourth year students. The pressure of taking a new path, securing a job or possibly navigating an unfamiliar city can be overwhelming and cause doubt and panic.
Although completing college and receiving that degree is exhilarating, it can also come with unease about what comes next.
As Elon student Brynne Aresnault ’21 described above, many students may know where they want to go or what field they want to pursue, but don’t know which steps to take to start their journey.
The Center for Design Thinking provides students with a framework to explore how to get where they want to be through its Designing Your Post-Grad Life workshop. Focusing on various aspects of life including work, play, love and health, this workshop guides students through the design thinking process.
Students get the opportunity to reflect on their post-graduation goals and are provided with the tools to create a prototype. Participants in this workshop consider and create their own ideas without limitations and learn how to act on their conclusions.
“The hard and necessary part of design is to make things work well even when things do not go as planned,” Don Norman writes in his book, “The Design of Everyday Things.”
Students that experience the Designing Your Post-Grad Life workshop, and other Elon by Design workshops, are encouraged to examine various outcomes and solutions. Through this analysis they can embrace the idea that everything may not go as planned.
The design thinking process is a cycle and students are encouraged to shamelessly re-think, re-do, and re-evaluate when things turn out unexpectedly.
The Center emphasizes that everyone’s path is individual and the outcome of the design thinking process could look radically different for each participant.
The Center for Design Thinking is a space that empowers people to think freely and creatively while generating real life resolutions.
The center is open to all Elon students, faculty and staff.
Schedule a workshop or request a consultation here!
To ask questions or learn more, email elonbydesign@elon.edu.