Short Course in Design Thinking for Innovation

Design thinking is core to many of the most successful businesses, and combines critical thinking and creativity to solve problems. Design thinking for innovation teaches you how to apply the best creative and analytical tools to develop real solutions for real needs, including personas, empathy mapping, prototyping, and iteration models.Our design thinking course encourages you to think differently. You will learn the techniques that allow you to solve the right problem, in the right way and put yourself in your customers' shoes. Throughout the course, you will work on your problem and complete a design thinking project that you can present back to your organization, start-up, or peers. Change your mindset to focus on solutions and boost creativity in your workplace.BAU offers this intensive online specialization course in collaboration with RMIT University in Australia to bring the methods of this prestigious institution to design professionals in Europe.

Why Study with RMIT Online

RMIT Online is for students who want real-world training from industry professionals. We call this the RMIT Online Edge. Get ready to sharpen those skills. Digital Credential The cutting-edge skills you’ll learn are rigorously assessed and recognized by both a leading university and key employers in the field of study through a digital credential.

Connect with Industry

Our courses are designed with high-profile partners to ensure you’re job-ready, learning practical skills that align with industry best practices.

Real-world Skills

Our project-based assessments mean you’ll roll up your sleeves and create a project for a real-world business scenario, allowing you to see the immediate impact of your learning within your organization.

100% Online Flexible Learning

The freedom of online learning means you can study whenever you want, wherever you want, in a manner that suits your work and lifestyle.

Collaborative Online Experience

Never feel like you’re studying alone and feel supported by our team of expert industry mentors, SMEs, and the learner success team.

BAU is an Art and Design College located in Barcelona and affiliated with the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya, which provides official studies in design within the European Higher Education Area.

BAU is an Art and Design University Centre located in Barcelona. It is affiliated to the University of Vic - the Central University of Catalonia, which offers an official Bachelor's Degree in Design and Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts within the European Higher Education System. BAU's mission is to be a driving force of knowledge and innovation at the service of society . It focuses on attention given to students and their global training so that they incorporate the values of respect, equity, social commitment, responsibility towards people, and professional rigor .

Teaching staff

Our teaching staff includes specialized professional experts and university graduates with both bachelors' and doctoral degrees. They are experienced in the fields of design, art, architecture, photography, advertising, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, history.

Our teachers are passionate about design. Their working philosophy is open and integrated. They monitor each student’s work and progress, respect their students' efforts and are more than willing to collaborate with them. Their aim is to assist the students in their professional and personal growth.

Our Model

BAU, College of Arts & Design of Barcelona, conducts its public service activity in the areas of teaching, research, and knowledge transfer within its fields of expertise.

The mission of BAU is to be a driver of knowledge and innovation in the service of society with a clear international vocation. It is focused on attending to students and their comprehensive education to instill the values of individual creativity, professional rigor, and social commitment. BAU is strongly committed and connected to the cultural, social, and economic progress of the country.

Educational model

BAU and its teaching staff aim to train contemporary, critical, creative, and open-minded designers who can understand social, cultural, and economic developments and are committed to sustainable development that responds to the evolving needs of society.

The BAU educational model delivers sound humanistic, cultural, artistic, technical, and methodological training distinguished by contemporary teaching which is closely linked to the real professional world from the perspective of the culture of the project.

BAU provides comprehensive training based on small class sizes, working in teams, and personalized teaching, while promoting research activities among both the teaching staff and the students.

The BAU faculty employs high-quality and innovative pedagogic practices based on the applicability of the teachings to the development of projects while teaching students to work rigorously and systematically to achieve the professionalization of their creative processes.

Infrastructures

BAU is constantly expanding and improving its facilities to make them more modern, comfortable, and functional. The center has 3 buildings (Pujades, Llacuna and Granada) in Poblenou, the technological and innovative district of Barcelona (22@) with a total area of more than 10,000 m2, fully equipped for training and research in design and fine arts.