Imagine…

In our HPI d-school claim “Crafting tomorrow – Imagine.Innovate.Impact.” imagine marks the start.
Imagine for me means envisioning a what-if-scenario. You ask yourself what if…? And you see new solutions, change, better futures. Maybe you also imagine the unthinkable.

Like you’re the director of a film that starts off in your head only. And then you need to make your imagination tangible, share it with other people, to inspire them and you work together to make it work.

To imagine a new tomorrow you need an optimistic belief in a better future and a deep conviction that you can achieve your goals despite all odds.  You have to be resilient and refuse to be restricted by what is, and imagine instead what could be.


Why crafting tomorrow?


“Not because it´s easy but because it´s hard.” John F. Kennedy once said when they set the goal to bring men to the moon. The same is true for crafting tomorrow. It is not easy but it is inevitable. Crafting includes the imagination for what you want to craft and which value you want to create.

  • A craft is something that you learn and practice and repractice. Sames goes for innovation and creativity. You can learn how to be innovative and creative.
  • No one can craft tomorrow alone.
  • Collaboration is what is strongly needed to solve the complex problems we are facing in this world. We need collaboration across disciplines, across cultures and across organizations.
  • Crafting means thinking with your hands, bringing ideas and strategies to life and implementing them.
  • Implementation is the hard part. You have to roll up your sleeves, prototype, experiement and be open for failure and learning. It also means to persevere and to think long term not short term.
  • At the d-school we serve the individual and teams who want to learn and grow as human being and in their profession.
  • We experiement with learning journeys and formats and new forms of collaboration at the intersection of human and technology.
  • We Provide skills and knowledge so that learners are able to craft tomorrow by imagining and innovating impactful products, services or systems.



Thanks for the good vibes and productive video shooting Katja Rommel, Maria Aragon Bartsch, Andrea Rohrberg. All in the making for 25 years of Hasso Plattner Institute.