Faculty Training Programme (FTP) · DIC Hub, IIT Hyderabad
Teach design thinking by doing it first.
Five days at DIC Hub, IIT Hyderabad for teachers and practitioners. You'll take a real problem from first interview to tested prototype, then turn what you learned into something you can teach the week you get back.
Why it works
You can't teach a design cycle you've never run.
Design thinking doesn't live on slides. So we skip them. For five days you'll work the way your students will: out in the field, talking to people, making things, getting them wrong, and making them better.
School teachers
Bring it into the classroom
Subject teachers, Atal Tinkering Lab in-charges and school leaders putting NEP 2020's project-based learning into practice.
College & university faculty
Build studio courses
Faculty from engineering, management, science, humanities and design who want to teach through projects and juries.
Practitioners
Facilitate with confidence
Designers, trainers, L&D leads and public officers who run workshops and want a method that holds up.
The five days
From your first interview to a jury.
Each day pairs doing something with asking how you'd teach it.
| Day | Focus | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Immerse | A walk through DIC Hub and its labs. Why design thinking runs across every discipline. Teams form and pick a real brief. |
| Day 2 | Research & frame | Out on campus: watching, interviewing, making sense of it. Then one sharp problem statement. |
| Day 3 | Ideate & prototype | Lots of ideas, then rough prototypes built in the DIC makers' lab. |
| Day 4 | Test & translate | Testing with real users. Then turning your project into a lesson, module or workshop, and practising how you'll run it. |
| Day 5 | Jury & certification | Teams present the project and the teaching unit to DIC Hub faculty. Certificates awarded. |
Projects
Two projects. One for the world, one for your classroom.
Project 01
The design project
A real brief, worked in a team, from field research to a tested prototype, and judged by DIC Hub faculty. You feel the method the way your students will.
Project 02
The teaching project
A lesson, module or workshop for your own context, built on the curriculum and course book, and ready to run when you're back.
After the five days
Keep learning alongside DIC cohorts.
The immersion ends. The practice doesn't. Opt in to hybrid sessions with the student and professional cohorts at DIC Hub, IIT Hyderabad.
01
Online studios
Join live sessions and watch the method work with very different learners.
02
Co-mentoring
Co-mentor student projects in HCD Lab @ School and the IIT Hyderabad immersions.
03
Sitting in on juries
See how design work is judged, and calibrate your own eye.
04
Faculty community
Swap teaching units, briefs and results with other trained faculty.
What you take home
A certificate, a lesson, and a way forward.
Certification
DIC, IIT Hyderabad, with HCD Institute
A certificate from the Design Innovation Centre, IIT Hyderabad, awarded with The Institute of Human-Centred Design once you complete the immersion and the jury.
Research pathway
Towards research in design education
Mentoring from DIC Hub faculty and research scholars to shape a research question, from classroom studies to further study.
Practice
A teaching unit and a network
A lesson ready to run, a tested project for your portfolio, and a place in the HCD Institute faculty network.
Research pathways are mentored and selective. Admission to any research programme follows the host institution's own norms.
The pathway
Five days can grow into a research practice.
01
Immersion
Five days at DIC Hub, IIT Hyderabad.
02
Hybrid sessions
Opt in to sessions with DIC cohorts.
03
Teach & mentor
Lead the method where you work, and co-mentor HCD Lab and immersion projects.
04
Research
Study design thinking in education with DIC Hub faculty and research scholars.
Who you'll learn with
The DIC Hub team.
Dr Deepak John Mathew
Professor, IIT Hyderabad · Head, DIC Hub · Founding Board Member, HCD Institute
Mathew Sebastian
Founding Board Member, HCD Institute · Fellow, DIC Hub, IIT Hyderabad
Jacinta Bell
Interaction designer · Researcher, DIC Hub · Fellow, HCD Institute
Marsukola Kranthi Kiran
Member, DIC · Research Scholar, IIT Hyderabad
How to join
Schools nominate. Individuals apply.
01
Get in touch
A school, college or organisation nominates its faculty, or you apply on your own.
02
Pick an intake
It runs every quarter at DIC Hub, IIT Hyderabad.
03
Get ready
A short brief and some reading arrive before you travel.
04
Arrive and begin
Five days on campus, then the hybrid sessions if you want them.
For schools
Running HCD Lab @ School?
Teachers who join the FTP co-teach and co-mentor the programme with DIC faculty, so the skill stays inside your school.
FAQ
Good questions.
Who is the FTP for?
Where and how often does it run?
What are the hybrid sessions?
What certificate do I get?
Does it lead to research?
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Faculty Training Programme · DIC Hub, IIT Hyderabad