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Designers often speak of design as a process. Typically, design thinking leads to design making, which leads to artifacts. Yet the design process also leads to something more-to new knowledge. Thus, we might characterize designing as a form of learning

"Here is a brief overview of the main ideas:     A model of Science Process (showing its coherent strategies for thinking-and-action), developed for my PhD project, was later generalized into a broader Design Process that describes the flexibly improvised creative-and-critical thinking we use for almost everything in life, when we solve problems by designing better products, activities, strategies, and theories."    

This is a site for K-12 supposedly but there are some great tools here for teaching (PDF form) - creating design challenges prototypes and more

The Permanent Culture Now Project is an outlet for the knowledge we have built up from decades of thinking about ways to address the major problems facing ourselves and future generations. We have now reached the point where we believe that there needs to be a move towards a Permanent Culture.