To prepare talent for ″glocal challenges″ in the information era, in 2015, National Taiwan University established the Stanley Wang D-School (henceforth, ″NTU D-School″ or ″D-School″ ), designed to provide a comprehensive, creative and innovative education that cultivates critical thinking for problem-solving through interdisciplinary collaboration. After offering campus-wide design thinking based classes in fall 2015, the Entrepreneurship Program (founded in 2005) merged into the D-School in 2018, followed the next year by the Social Responsibility Program (established in 2014) and reinitiated the NTU Leadership Program in 2019.
Transdisciplinary teaching and learning by doing are at the core of the D-School
pedagogy through three distinct areas of focus:
(1) innovation training,
(2) creativity and entrepreneurship program, and
(3) place-based social responsibility ("socio-placemaking" ), and
(4) leadership program.
To facilitate the D-School's pedagogical transformations, Makerspace and NTU Garage provide students with a wide range of hands-on opportunities from product prototyping to start-up development.