Using ‘Space’ in Design Thinking: Concepts, Tools and Insights for Design Thinking Practitioners from Research

This chapter relies on an interactionist understanding of space, a shared leadership approach, and Design Thinking coaching to derive consequences for the use of space in Design Thinking workshops. It combines, on the one hand, concepts from theory with experience, insights, and tools from practice. On the other hand, it takes both the perspective of a Design Thinking coach and of workshop participants and it seeks to provide a broad perspective of how a space in Design Thinking can be prepared, used, and transformed to leverage its potential for teams. Deriving practical implications from theory will allow readers to better understand, reflect, and teach space in a Design Thinking context and further support them in developing their own interventions or variations of the tools presented.