Oct
14
2025
SETU’s Design+ hosted Transition Year students from Presentation College for the Ignition 25 Innovation Programme.
The two-day programme, facilitated by Richard Whyte, Business Development Manager at Design+, and Kinga Pestka, Design Strategist, aimed to nurture creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurial thinking among students. They were supported by team members and PhD students Chloe Johnston and Dudu Geng, who helped guide students through hands-on activities and design thinking exercises. The Design Thinking framework guided students through practical activities that encouraged a safe and collaborative space for ideas. By designing, testing, and refining their concepts, students developed resilience, adaptability, and a deeper understanding of complex problem-solving, skills that are increasingly vital in modern education. students learned to identify and evaluate innovative opportunities through the five stages of design thinking:
• Empathising with users
• Defining problems
• Ideating solutions
• Prototyping concepts
• Testing ideas
These stages fostered essential skills across sustainable design, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, helping students build a well-rounded foundation for future study and career development.
The Ignition 25 Programme continues to inspire and empower young people to think differently, create fearlessly, and lead the way in shaping a more innovative future.
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