Design Thinking

Making sense of complex challenges.

Design thinking puts people at the heart of ideas, reframing big organisational or societal challenges to create new perspectives and ways of doing things.

This approach is perfect for aligning cross-functional teams to tackle a project or challenge. You'll gain a better understanding of a complex, multi-faceted challenges and ensure you are focusing on the 'right' problem to solve.

The Engine Room plan, manage and facilitate one-off or programmatic approaches for private, public sector and third-sector organisations.

Our design thinking has supported:

Climate change action and circular economy
Health and wellbeing
Increasing physical activity
Reducing teenage pregnancy
Economic growth post-COVID
Reducing suicide
Healthy ageing
WHO age-friendly city status
Organisational change

We’ve also delivered a large number of design thinking programmes on behalf of Design Council, the national strategic body for design.

Our problem solving workshops can help you:

Creating new answers by asking new questions /
See big organisational challenge from a different point of view / Galvanise a team around a challenge / Rapidly generate ideas around a problem / Better understand stakeholders in the process / Embed a design lead approach to problem solving in your organisation / Challenge the status quo.

Do you have a challenge we could help with?

Related Case Study

Making Cheshire West and Cheshire an age friendly borough

In 2018, Cheshire West and Chester joined the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities and the UK Network for Age-friendly Communities. Consequently, the Age-friendly Cheshire West partnership was established, which aims to continually improve the lives of older people living in the Borough.