SECTOR FOCUS: SKILLS & TRAINING The design for a collaborative future


Within all types of organisations, CEO’s and managers need to ask themselves constantly ‘Where do we go from here?’ In a changing and competitive business environment, there is a continuing need for organisations to move forward and innovate as part of their strategic development. Collaborative creative


partnerships can be used to add value and innovation within the business process and Steven Forsyth, a Curriculum Manager within the pre-degree (further education) department of Plymouth College of Art, and John Clamp, an Educational and Employability Skills Consultant, have been exploring design thinking and creative partnerships. Through developing a platform


in which Plymouth College of Art students can diversify their progression routes into various national industries, the college has developed a series of exciting new opportunities to work with organisations within industries such as construction, engineering and automation through design thinking and collaboration. Steven said: “The way we seek to develop creative partnership


‘Young people


Plymouth College of Art offers new opportunities for students


through design thinking activities is a mutually valuable process. Young creative people understand more about how their skills are important and transferable within other industries and in turn young people can help provide a transformative approach to creating new business ideas and building sustainable design led solutions.” The process uses elements from


the designer's toolkit like empathy, critical thinking, cognitive flexibility and experimentation to arrive at innovative solutions. By using design thinking, decisions made are


can help provide a transformative approach to creating new business ideas’


based on what future customers want instead of relying only on historical data or making decisions based on instinct instead of evidence. Having developed many


excellent examples of creative collaboration this year by working with organisations such as CITB,


Steven Forsyth, Curriculum Manager at Plymouth College of Art


Applied Automation and Building Plymouth, the college has the foundations of a robust, collaborative, agile and rewarding design thinking programme. One of the next steps moving


forward is developing an employability planning panel, in which industry can help shape curriculum and moving into other industries.


Contact Steven Forsyth, Curriculum Manager at Plymouth College of Art by email sforsyth@pca.ac.uk


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