Design Thinking and Embodiment for problem-solving and creativity education in the digital world

The emergency due to the SARS-COV-2 pandemic has required substantial and situational changes in the living environments, relational, educational, health and media networks. Managing complexity in emergency contexts, therefore characterized by conditions of a high individual, relational and institutional vulnerability imposes an urgent mandate on educational agencies of rethink, adapt, reorganize and innovate their teaching methods. The interaction with the digital ecosystem has accelerated the need to draw from creative decision-making and problem-solving strategies, tinkering, attention to the design of the learning room due to distancing, and to reconsider transversal skills, necessary to promote the development of new cognitive-learning strategies. The contribution provides the results of an educational program based on design thinking and embodied approach to stimulate problem-solving and creative thinking in university students. The methodology starts from the recent evidence-based applications offered by Embodied-Cognition & Design Thinking , emotional design in digital media for e-learning and the personal learning environment (personalized for learning) and directly involves the users in co-design , testing and design experiment embodied in distance learning contexts.