building creative confidence in housekeeping & model making staff at agastya

Building Creative Confidence in Housekeeping & Model making staff at Agastya

A Design Thinking workshop at Agastya International Foundation, Kuppam

Co-facilitators: Janani Subramanian, Subramanya Shastry (Subbu) ,

Uday Kumar & Vinay Dabholkar

vinay@catalign.com

June 2013

Outline

• Session-1: Team formation, icebreaker, Instructions for field work

• Session-2: Introduction to DT process, problem presentations

• Session-3: Ideation and Prototyping, Presentations to Dr. Shibu

Field work instructions

Uday opens the session

Ice breaker

Problem identification: Field work

(photos by participants)

Pain of carrying hot tea pots

Space problem in painting room

Do we really need two people?

Introduction to Design Thinking through Wallet/Lunch box design

exercise

Wallet design exercise

Lunch box design exercise

What kind of handle should our lunch box have?

Ideation / Prototyping

Idea generation

Could cycle be a solution to tea pot problem?

Shantamma struggles for 20 minutes to draw the cycle, Subbu helps

Cycle prototype with tea-pot

Spacious painting room

A better place to wash & dry clothes

Presentation to the Management

Dr. Shibu appreciates the solutions

Thank You