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    CAS Design Thinking

    • Short description
    • Target Audience
    • Positioning
    • Dates
    • Cost
    • How to apply

    Short description

    Mindset, models and methods for transformative projects in organisations and society

    Design thinking is an attitude, an approach and a set of methods all at once. The approach offers guidance in dealing with complex business and social issues, acts as a driver of innovation and as a means of strategic development. The CAS opens up a practical learning space in which participants work on their own problems and apply design thinking in a concrete context.

    The programme is completed over a period of six months and consists of seven teaching modules of three days each.

    Target Audience

    The CAS Design Thinking is aimed at people from all functions and sectors who want to apply design-based thinking and action methods in their work and anchor them sustainably in their environment.

    • Designers and creative professionals who want to expand their methodological and strategic design skills
    • Specialists from different disciplines who want to focus more on aspects of design
    • Managers, in order to promote innovation and create a creative corporate culture

    Positioning

    In the context of the MAS Strategic Design, the CAS Design Thinking covers the essence of all seven dimensions of Strategic Design. The programme is particularly suitable for people who would like to extend their basic understanding of design and thereby enhance their reflective, enabling and transformation skills in particular.

    The «spider model» shows the dimensions of curriculum in strategic design.

    Know Yourself – Develop an awareness of yourself and your own value system, and an understanding of how these influence your own positioning and strategic behaviour.

    Master Tools – Gain a broad knowledge of the concepts, methods and other instruments which help with strategic decision-making and support the required processes.

    Shape Experiences – Build up expertise in aesthetic and experience-based elements and their influence on, and interaction in, the implementation of strategic decisions.

    Enable People – Empower third parties by the clever application of collaborative and communication skills.

    Navigate Complexity – Learn how to handle complex systems and about contextual relationships and how these can be influenced by interventions.

    Transform Organizations – Learn about the idiosyncrasies of organizations and other communities.

    Understand Technologies – Raise awareness of the potential of technological developments and their direct interaction with cultural aspects of everyday life.

    Dates

    The CAS Design Thinking starts annually in September and lasts until February in the following year. Around 25 participants will be accepted. The languages of instruction are German and English.

    Next edition
    Academic year 2026/27: 10 September 2026 – 6 February 2027

    Subject to change

    Cost

    Early bird price until April 16, 2026: CHF 7900.– (plus CHF 200.– application fee)
    Regular price as of April 17, 2026: CHF 8800.– (plus CHF 200.– application fee)

    How to apply

    Further information: CAS Design Thinking