{"id":2698,"date":"2010-03-23T17:18:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T01:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:18:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T01:18:41","slug":"uva-dardens-new-i-lab-program-encourages-design-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/uva-dardens-new-i-lab-program-encourages-design-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"UVA Darden&#8217;s New i.Lab Program Encourages &#8220;Design-Thinking&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/UVADarden.aspx\">UVA's Darden School of Business<\/a> together with UVA's Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation unveiled a special program that supports and encourages the teaching and studying of Darden's new curriculum initiative, \"design-thinking.\"<\/p>\n<p>This new program, reports an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginia.edu\/uvatoday\/newsRelease.php?id=11262\" target=\"_blank\"><em>UVA Today<\/em><\/a>, will take place in the innovation laboratory, or i.Lab, a creative space that will be part classroom and part studio, set up to provide an area for students to \"build models and prototypes of their ideas\u2026[that] features tall workbenches flanked by a full complement of tools,\" including hammers, saws, carving tools, oscilloscopes, metal rods, foam boards, clay, wood, and others. The space has tall, floor-to-ceiling windows, an exhibition space, and implements state-of-the-art facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The philosophy behind Darden's focus on design-thinking and on the new i.Lab, explains Jeanne Liedtka, a professor in the program, is that \"design-thinking skills are best developed through the hands-on design experience.\"<\/p>\n<p>Students learn, create, and then exhibit their business prototypes, subjecting their work to peer review and critique.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bschools\/blogs\/mba_admissions\/archives\/2010\/03\/darden_opens_a.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>BusinessWeek<\/em><\/a> article on the same subject, Darden is not the only school putting a strong emphasis on design and innovation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/NYUStern.aspx\">NYU Stern<\/a> has had the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab since the fall of 2008, and UC Davis Graduate School of Management currently has plans to open something similar as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darden.virginia.edu\/html\/standard.aspx?menu_id=666&amp;styleid=2&amp;id=21001\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more information on Darden's i.Lab.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want our news sent directly to your inbox? <\/strong><a title=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/blog\/subscribe.aspx?utm_campaign=BlogContent&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_source=BlogVisitors&amp;utm_content=SubscribeBlog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/blog\/subscribe.aspx\"><strong><span style=\"color: blue\">Subscribe to the Accepted Admissions Almanac by clicking here!<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/MBA\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/profile.ak.fbcdn.net\/object3\/947\/54\/s8255073883_9880.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1260090948492\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span>Accepted.com<\/a> ~ Helping You Write Your Best<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, UVA&#8217;s Darden School of Business together with UVA&#8217;s Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation unveiled a special program that supports and encourages the teaching and studying of Darden&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,6],"tags":[473,39,446,66,96],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-b-school-life","category-current-events","tag-design","tag-mba-admissions","tag-mba-goal","tag-nyu-stern","tag-uva-darden","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}