ISB conducts a Design Challenge for Naropa Fellows
20/12/2018
KATHUA, DEC 19: Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad, Asia's top business school, has designed an academic module for the Naropa Fellowship --a recently launched program empowering the next generation of Himalayan and Indian leaders. The Naropa Fellowship, comprised of a select group of up-and-coming talents, was established in part by Founder of ISB, Dr Pramath Raj Sinha, and Himalayan native His Eminence Drukpa Thuksey Rinpoche. ISB and Naropa Fellowship are now formally collaborating to educate and inspire the youth of the Himalayan belt with entrepreneurial skills. The "Design Challenge" module in this academic program teaches Fellows how to identify problems in the region, and how to resolve them through creative solutions during their program.
The Himalayan region is beset with challenges not normally seen in other parts of the world. Given its unique geography and terrain, challenges abound in economic and environmental spheres, as well as in issues of scalability, maintenance of public institutions, education, health, and hygiene.
Over the course of four days, the "Design Challenge" module exposed fellows to the principles of design thinking. They were divided into fourteen teams to identify and articulate regional problems, under the guidance of ISB's D-Labs team. They were first introduced to the various elements of Design Thinking and the fundamentals of data collection techniques, with an overview of the actual challenges they might encounter on the field.
As part of their research, the Fellows explored different aspects of the socio-cultural and economic dynamics of Leh town, and documented their observations while watching, sketching, and recording in the field. They used tools like interviews, focus group discussions, role playing, photography, and collected evidence (in some cases, by trying out the food being served by the local eateries!).
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