d.thinking aims to raise awareness about social inclusion and marginalised groups and communities through the activities of the project and the engagement of local communities, contributing to their social inclusion by recognising them as active stakeholders in social processes rather than 'beneficiaries' of policies or initiatives, and allowing them to co-design the learning process and content through the application of the Design Thinking approach. In addition, the project aims to contribute to social inclusion by reaching out to people and communities that have been marginalised, using Design Thinking principles of empathy, perception, understanding and creative thinking. Finally, the project aims to enable relevant social actors to work together through an inclusive and reflective methodology and to benefit from each other's contributions in order to foster social bonds and community ties.
The d.thinking (Design Thinking for Social Inclusion) project addresses individuals, groups or communities faced by social exclusion as experts in their own right. The need for new, innovative, interactive, iterative methods for addressing social issues, and particularly those recognizing the need for empathy, diversity, or resiliency, requires new and innovative approaches in the collaboration between the relevant social actors. Design Thinking is such a method, and can be a useful and diverse tool for all partners and their target groups. Design thinking is based on the joint development of human-centred problem solutions in multidisciplinary teams. This also includes the active involvement of the target groups at all levels.