This International Virtual Course (IVC) will take its participants through a design thinking process in order to discover innovative solutions for collective (urban) issues, within the contexts of design ethnography studies that emphasise human behaviours towards the surrounding objects, systems, and ambience. The course participants will experience design thinking steps and design ethnography methods that are applied to daily objects and/or activities that are commonly available in any part of the world. The chosen projects will take the viewpoints of the creative economy ecosystem, including the scope of informal economy that often takes place as a significant factor, particularly in the global south.

Another important factor among the main considerations in this course is the recent challenges due to the (post) pandemic condition, where people are forced to find new ways to interact and to conduct daily activities, including delivering products and services safely, without compromising on quality and convenience. People are forced to switch their mindset and behaviour, to switch their perceptions towards the essence of life, to switch their manners of communication, and many more. 

In order to capture this sense of SWITCH, the course will be delivered in a highly interactive manner, with impactful output that might be implemented in real situations. It is believed that exchanges of experiences from young people with different backgrounds from different countries towards a similar theme will yield interesting findings. This program is held by Industrial Product Design Program, Faculty of Art and Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung.





Group A
Amirul Muminin
Agata Kubalewska
Dwi Setiana
Gaby Graviela Nusyirwan
Jasmine Audrey
My Nguyen

Group B
Héctor Miguel Muñoz
Michalina Nowak
Muhammad Farrel Hermana
Nadira Ayudhiaswati
Wojciech Zabel

Group D
Asiya Mufida Yumna
Daniel Bernardino Soeiono
Luiza Latos
Sebastian Jaworski
Sovi Yasmin




Group F
Dean Octavian Maulana
Diani Nanda Cikal
Grzegorz Baranowski
Julia Dobrowolska
Nina Joachimowska
Sara Klaczyńska

Group G
Farhandika Prawira Herijadi
Iwona Szymańska
Monika Dobrzyńska
Rahmat Hamdani
Sarah Rivera
Syifa Arifia Hanifah


Group H
Aleksandra Wawrzyniak
Elis O’Mara
Kyoko Kodama
Novan Hermawan
Sholihah Rahmatunnisa Utami



Group I
Bobby Marciano
Carlos Ignacio Najar
Fahri Hidayat Arya Djatmika
Fikri Izzaldin Satriotomo
Hilwa Alifah Azzahra
Jasmine Victoria









Design Ethnography Lab.
KK Manusia dan Desain Produk Industri

Fakultas Seni Rupa dan Desain
Institut Teknologi Bandung

Center for Arts, Design and Language
(CADL) Building 7th Floor
Jalan Ganesha No. 10, Bandung 40132


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