Design Thinking & building

Design Thinking, a participative approach to innovation

While Design Thinking, an approach to conceiving innovative offers, is becoming a discipline in its own right (distinct from design), human beings have not waited to create, invent, plan, manufacture...

For some, this systemic approach to problem solving is common sense; for others, it's an alternative to the habit of reasoning with a linear, analytical process.

In all types of business, particularly in the construction sector, we take on challenges and design solutions:

• strategies ;

• which products/objects ;

• who offer services to make life easier for their target group;

• which combine physical and digital experiences, linking service to product...

Whatever the challenge, the key to success lies in taking desirability, feasibility and viability into account.

So why use design if your role is already to solve problems? Why is there so much talk about Design Thinking, when we're in a sector where project mode and multidisciplinarity are essential?

• the basis (entente cordiale, not always) ;

• mandatory iteration (specifying the project phase by phase);

• prototyping (as well as drawing representation), which is the cornerstone of our exchanges?

The aim of this article is to describe the approach and illustrate it with concrete examples, then to provide tools to facilitate the application of design thinking, whatever your role in a construction project.