Playground : Transdisciplinary Design & Innovation Lab.

The playground at Habib University is set as the most cutting edge design research facility in the country. Leveraging the spectrum of expertise available at Habib University and using Human-Centered Design approach as its central pillar, The playground provides an unparalleled ecosystem for creative, collaborative and transdisciplinary approach to problem-solving. Since its official launch in August 2017, playground has organically grown into the institution's preferred space, physical and intellectual, for pedagogical innovation and complex problem-solving. It has established itself as the venue of choice for projects involving design, making, transdisciplinarity and innovation for students, faculty and our industry and community partners. The complex challenges that we face today require us to think beyond disciplinary boundaries. It is also essential that these problems are both understood and addressed from the lens of the user. Keeping these ideas central to problem-solving approach, All courses, workshops and pop-ups routed through the playground feature the use of a range of design research methods including but not limited to systems thinking, speculative design, service design, interaction design and communication design.