Design Thinking & Lego Serious Play for Flow

Arindam Basu & Stefan SohnchenPresented for the Teaching Week,

University of Canterbury, 2014E-mail: arindam.basu@canterbury.ac.nz

Purpose: Experience Flow Using Design Thinking and Lego Serious Play

Concept of Design Thinking

Problem or Opportunity Solution

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Five Stages of Design Thinking

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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

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Lego Serious Play

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

Principle of Flow (From Mihalyi Cziksentmihalyi, “Flow the psychology of optimal experience”, http://goo.gl/wtMml

Can Channeling Experiences Using Tools (Lego bricks) methods (serious play), and processes (design thinking) lead students to experience “Flow”?

Lego Bricks Serious Play

Design ThinkingExperience Flow?

Challenge and Expertise Were Controlled for By Inviting External Participants and Students from UC

Students Stakeholder Participants

The Research Process

Trained the Students Using End to End Design Thinking Workshop

Invited Students to Participate, and ContactedCommunity Stakeholders (Nurses, Physician Groups,Software Vendors …

Developed “How Might We …” Questions

Students and Stakeholder Participants Engaged in 2 hour in an end to end Design Thinking Exercises, Created Prototypes, And Examined Them

Photos from the Workshops

Prototypes Created In the Workshops

Prototype of a Web Design Exercise

Engagement of the Participants

Participant Reflections

This Project is in Progress

• For More Information or to participate, contact,

• Arindam Basu• Email: arindam.basu@canterbury.ac.nz• Phone: 022 629 0356 or 03 345 8161