Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility is a STEAM education program co-developed by MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node (MIT Node) and Tramplus. Launched in mid-June this year, the program aims to equip young students with a creative problem-solving mindset called Design Thinking and design for sustainable urban mobility. On 11-12 Aug 2022, the first batch of trainer candidates gathered at MIT Node and successfully completed the train-the-trainer workshop.
Through the two-day training, 17 trainer candidates from HKUST, PolyU, HKU and CUHK have:
- Understood the concept of sustainable urban mobility and various challenges faced by Hong Kong trams
- Inferred the impact of multiple measures combating climate change using systems thinking and futures thinking
- Equipped with the innovative problem-solving mindset – Design Thinking
- Applied Design Thinking to address real-world sustainable development challenges
- Made lookalike prototypes rapidly to test the ideas
Now, they are ready to develop their first actionable teaching plan with continuous support from MIT Node and Tramplus.
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