HPI d–school

The HPI d-school was founded by Hasso Plattner in Potsdam in 2007. Since then, it has become the European center for Design Thinking education. Every year, the HPI D-School offers 300 places for a supplementary study course in the Design Thinking innovation approach.

In small, multidisciplinary teams, students from various fields develop innovative and human-centered solutions for complex problems. They collaborate with project partners from corporations, startups, NGOs, or political institutions. This year, our students are from 20 countries, 65 universities, and 70 disciplines.

Under the leadership of Prof. Falk Uebernickel and Monika Frech, Design Thinking is successfully taught, lived, and further developed at the Hasso Plattner Institute. As the initiator of the Global Design Thinking Alliance (GDTA), the HPI D-School promotes the exchange between Design Thinking schools worldwide.