“The process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience.”
 

— David Kolb, Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development (1984)

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Overview

Understanding people requires stepping into their world and listening to their stories. Observation, ethnography, and lived experience become pathways to discovering meaningful insights and implicit opportunities that cannot be found from behind a desk.

 

Reading Material

• Catania & Trischitta, 2026 | Design as a tool for experiential food education 

• Charmaz, 2024 | Constructing Grounded Theory

• Dovey, 2020 | Urban Design Thinking: A Conceptual Toolkit 

• Felder et al., 2023 | From ‘if only’ to ‘what if’: An ethnographic study into design thinking and organizational Change

• Wenger, 2000 | Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems