Social Innovation Master Class TM

About This Master Class:

This is the real time project we did with a bigger community called Mönchengladbach located in the central part of Germany. Where this involves a typical user study finding problems ideation conceptualising prototyping and physical product making in the final stages to get into production. This course will largely talk about the collaborations which we made with multiple stakeholders including the community people, the German government, the design institute and then Army school from Munich who was helping us in this project. Collaboration, co-creation and finding suitable solutions for the current context is the need of the hour and it's mainly taught through a real-time example of a project.

Benefits of the Master Class:

1. In this social innovation design one can learn about the holistic process of product design starting from research finding problems interviews with people brainstorming ideation conceptualising prototyping and then making it into production.

2. Since it's a real-time project we work with multiple stakeholders so one can learn how to effectively engage in communication with various stakeholders in the project to leverage their advantage, in this project we had an universal design department guy and then people from Army school and then from government how do you understand and empathise with them to get insights for your project.

3. Also the problem is different when it comes to the context of India and Germany. A cultural understanding and explanation was given as a difference in one of the videos for people to have a varied perspective of design.

4. Design is about having the cultural understanding to your context as well as for others and with the same motivation how do you work to solve that problem with the same empathy you had with yours.

5. How quickly we tested our prototypes and we were very hands-on in terms of making 4 to 5 iterations in a very short span of time.

6. How did we use the workshop and other facilities to make out 1:5 prototype and 1:33 prototype for final presentation.

7. Real time implementation of this project has been studied from the start from the conception till the end prototype making has been understood.

8. How culturally it is important as a designer to work with German designers as well as understand their respective and how to make an effective design as a team, many cultural points and perspectives have been discussed.

9. Feasibility analysis of all the three concepts best designed and made and presented to the team. Also made the detailed drawings of CAD, materials for manufacturing and final to the production details for the engineering team to take over the project- real time learning for the students.