Workshops

  Navigate workshop On the 27/10/2023 we had our first Navigate workshop. The aims of this workshop was to Identify different forms of communities within the class and university, articulate the value of Kingston University’s Graduate attributes, understand the content and benefits of the Navigate workshops, introduce growth mindset framework through various scenarios of transitioning to university. We first went through the different communities in the University from the smallest to biggest, this went: You, room number, course, department, faculty, degree level students, Kingston university. We then got shown how to get involved in the various communities eg. Using the KU app. We also learnt about what navigate is and that it aims to develop your reflection, discussion, and personal/ professional development skills. We ranked 9 graduate skills from most important to least important in our opinions. In my opinion each skill has the same importance in our professional lives. The skills

 Hackathon Workshop On the 10/11/2023 we had our first hackathon workshop. This is when we had members of "Bathroom and Kitchen Eleven" come in and present our brief. The brief was to find a solution/ innovation that would solve one of the issues the company was experiencing since covid. We had to get into small groups and present our solution to the class and industry workers. We worked on a worksheet that allowed us to discover what issue we would be focusing on to solve. The issue we focused on was  the aftermath of Covid-19 and how the interior design industry has found it  difficult to showcase their designs remotely  to homeowners who are looking to renovate their homes. Bathroom and Kitchen Eleven had been struggling with a  lack in the quality  of their  customer experience  which would eventually lead to a loss of clients.  We also expanded on the other bigger issues that this would lead to, including: Competitive disadvantage . As competitors in this indu