Design Thinking & Lego Serious Play for Resident-Diaspora Meet Arindam Basu MD MPH PhD, University of Canterbury, 2014 E-mail: [email protected] 

Let’s Design a Gift for Each Other Based on Our Idea of India! 

You have only three minutes to discuss as much ideas as you can from your mates in the table. Please write them or jot them on the sheets provided. Use if you need more sheets, use graphics, be as graphical as you can 3 

In the next two minutes, please discuss among yourselves and write a single Point of View a sentence that explains the idea of India that you’d like to present of all the different things you discussed. 4 

In the next 4 MINUTES you are going to give shape to your ideas using papers, lego blocks, and anything you find in the room, Go for volumes Use words only if they are absolutely necessary 5 

In the next two minutes, refine your models, cut them down or select the one that you are going to present to your partner groups 6 

No matter where we look, we see problems that can be solved only through innovation [Tim Brown, Design Thinking] 7 

Concept of Design Thinking Problem or Opportunity Solution Image Source: http://goo.gl/Tsrfk7 

Five Stages of Design Thinking Image Reference: http://goo.gl/ugAJr6 

Questions for Design Thinking
 (From Jeanne Liedkta, “Designing for Growth”) Note the Constant Expansion and Contraction of the ideas: also a “hunting”, “gathering” of ideas cycle Image Source: Liedtka, J. Designing for Growth Field Book, http://goo.gl/Y6qx3H 

Lego Serious Play Serious Play is a Goal Directed Play where participants play with each others t Achieve a Single Goal and the play or game is co-operative, not competitive! 

Can Channeling Experiences Using Tools (Lego bricks) methods (serious play), and processes (design thinking) lead us to innovate and create unique experiences? Lego Bricks Serious Play Design Thinking Innovate? 

Photos from the Workshops 

Prototypes Created In the Workshops 

Prototype of a Web Design Exercise 

Engagement of the Participants 

Participant Reflections