Four of us co-facilitated a design thinking workshop for Housekeeping & Model making staff at Agastya International Foundation, Kuppam in June 2013. This presentation gives a glimpse of the workshop.

1. 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

2. 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

3. Field work instructions

4. Uday opens the session

5. Ice breaker

6. Problem identification:
Field work
(photos by participants)

7. Pain of carrying hot tea pots

8. Space problem in painting room

9. Do we really need two people?

10. Introduction to Design Thinking
through Wallet/Lunch box design
exercise

11. Wallet design exercise

12. Lunch box design exercise
What kind of handle should our lunch box have?

13. Ideation / Prototyping

14. Idea generation

15. Could cycle be a solution to tea pot
problem?
Shantamma struggles for 20 minutes to draw the cycle, Subbu helps

16. Cycle prototype with tea-pot

17. Spacious painting room

18. A better place to wash & dry clothes

19. Presentation to the Management

20. Dr. Shibu appreciates the solutions

21. Thank You