On completion of the summer school, students will be able to:

• Analyse and evaluate the impact of climate change on society and the environment.
• Analyse and evaluate the impact of major global diseases and the changing future of healthcare policies and innovations.
• Analyse and evaluate the challenges of the internet and new frontiers in cyberspace/digital media security that companies face.
• Understand how advances in robotics and data science technology are transforming the future.
• Apply service design tools and develop a service to tackle a global challenge.
• Understand how businesses differentiate and compete in global markets, and to define and build business models to establish competitive advantage.
• Understand how technology are transforming marketing and advertising.
• Develop and practise valuable professional skills in team building, leadership and presentation.
• Develop and employ team building skills to work as a team towards a group design project.
• Find out what it is like to study in the UK, make new friends and practise your English.

Project tutorial sessions

The teams will work in small groups and the workshop facilitators will be available to visit and comment on the projects in the rooms to give feedback.

Opportunities for International Students

This session provides an opportunity for international students to find out more about studying in the UK and at Imperial and RCA. They will find out about student life and facilities on campus, programmes available, the application process and scholarships.

Group Presentations

Students in groups will apply their learning and present their design ideas to a panel and the best project team will be awarded a prize and a letter of recognition. All students will receive a project assessment score.

Sessions:

• Creativity and Ideas Generation
• Introduction to Service Innovation & Design Thinking and its Impact
• Project Introduction & briefing
• New Frontiers in Global Health
• Discovery
• Innovations in Climate Change
• Challenges of the Internet
• Innovation in Robotics – reshaping the future
• The Future of Data Science and its Application
• Business Model Innovation
• Effective Communication for Presentation
• Design
• Concept Delivery
• Distribution and Diffusion
• Future Challenges in Service Design

Imperial

On days 1, 2 , 3 & 7, classes will take place at Imperial College London’s South Kensington Campus, located amongst many famous attractions in London.

The culture triangle: neighbour to three of London’s most prestigious (and free) museums. Right next door, the Science Museum. Across the road, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and around the corner? The Natural History Museum. From Neolithic to the latest scientific breakthroughs, experience it all just minutes from Imperial’s doorstep.

The campus is also next to the famous Royal Albert Hall, one of London’s most iconic music venues, established in 1871, host to the BBC Proms and countless world-famous international artists.

In addition, the beautiful Hyde Park and the famous Harrods Department Store are just a short walk from the campus.

Royal College of Art

On days, 4, 5 & 6, classes will take place at Royal College of Art’s new London campus. Designed by internationally acclaimed architects, Herzog & de Meuron, the £135 million, 15,500 sqm campus is the largest investment in transformational space in the RCA’s 185 year history.

The classes will take place in the dedicated Executive Education spaces on the top floor of the Rausing Research & Innovation Building, with 360 degree views of London – eight floors of dedicated independent and confidential research space for areas such as materials science, soft robotics, advanced manufacturing, intelligent mobility, and AR and VR visualisation, housed in the Snap Visualisation Lab.

49 contact hours spread over 7 days covering lectures, workshops, tutorials, project work, social activities and relevant visit. Classes will be delivered on weekdays.

Students will be allocated in small groups for Project work which will be done through team-based learning with supervision. Final project will be presented in groups to a panel on the last day of the programme. A prize will be awarded to the team with the best project.

The entire programme will be taught in English.

Dr Susan Mulcahy, Imperial College London

Dr Susan Mulcahy is the programme Co-Director of the Imperial-RCA design for global challenges summer school. She was previously the Director of the Data Sparks Programme, the innovative student placement programme matching real-world industry projects on data science with a team of our postgraduate students. Additionally, she was the Senior Education Fellow of the Data Science Institute (DSI) at Imperial where she developed the educational offering of the DSI for internal students and external industry engagements. She is a Lecturer in Data Analytics at Ada National College for Digital Skills and a Principal Teaching Fellow at Cambridge Spark. Having facilitated technical courses for corporate clients since 2013, Susan enjoys teaching/facilitating/presenting technical topics to a non-specialist audience.

Susan received her data-driven PhD from Imperial's Bioengineering Department in 2016 where she researched indicators of traumatic brain injury using MATLAB on datasets collecting over 500 million data points per patient per day. In addition to this, she has an MBA from INSEAD in France and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in the USA. Susan has been a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society since 2002.

For outside interests, Susan seeks out adventure. In 1999, she spent three months riding her bicycle across the USA. These days, she can be found rowing on or running next to the Thames, hiking up a rugged mountain in the Scottish Highlands, or sleeping in a mountain refuge in northern Spain.

Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad, Royal College of Art

Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad is the programme Co-Director and an award-winning designer, researcher and educator with a focus on co-design and social design as well as being Co-Director of the Imperial-RCA design for global challenges summer school. He has worked with the public sector, local authorities, museums, cultural and educational institutions to foster collaborative culture and develop intuitive tools and methodologies that proactively engage end-users and stakeholders in design processes when addressing complex and open-ended problems.

Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad is the tutor of design innovation courses at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts two years running, RCA X OPPO research associate and lecturer on the Design Products programme. He has exhibited and conducted workshops both in the UK and internationally, including with the Serpentine Galleries, London; Liverpool Biennial; Shanghai Biennale; Tokyo Design Week, MACBA, Barcelona and LCCA, Riga.

Imperial & RCA postgraduate students will support the summer school students as ambassadors and participate in social activities, sharing their student experiences and life in the UK.

Students expectation :

• Studying an undergraduate degree and preferably in the final two years in any subject
• Applicants must be at least 18 years old before the start of the summer school.
• All students are required to have a good command of English, and if it is not their first language, they will need to satisfy the College requirement as follows:
  • a minimum score of IELTS (Academic Test) 6.5 overall (with no less than 6.0 in any element) or equivalent.
  • TOEFL (iBT) 92 overall (minimum 20 in all elements)
• Students will be asked to bring along a laptop computer for project work.