Mission D, an Interdisciplinary Innovation and Venture Program at Tongji University

Abstract

The mission D program provides interdisciplinary ``design-driven'' innovation and entrepreneurship education to students at Tongji University, including its international and exchange students. The D in the name of the program refers to Design, not only classical skill-based design, but a way of creative thinking and acting. Here, ``Design'' is regarded as a common creative asset of human being. Through Mission D, we begin to experiment in a proactive way, connecting and sharing experiments through critical and reflective practice, improving design tools and striving for generalizations that can apply in a variety of contexts.