A brief overview of my journey at the MIT Media Labs' design innovation workshop at PDPU Gandhinagar, held on Jan 2015. The process followed at the workshop, the product and my takeaways from the workshop.

1. GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY!

2. Contents
About the MITDI workshop
The tracks
A look back at the journey
Product Videos
Takeaways

3. Design Innovation Workshop
MIT Media Labs
PDPU Gandhinagar
17-23 Jan 2015

4. Civic Innovation
Synthetic Biology
Smart Textiles
Synchronous Tools
Immersive Storytelling
Sensors Across Scales
Lifelong Learning
Enabling Tools
Creating Engaging Playful Experiences
Tracks
Networked Playscapes

5. Civic Innovation
Synthetic Biology
Smart Textiles
Synchronous Tools
Immersive Storytelling
Sensors Across Scales
Lifelong Learning
Enabling Tools
Creating Engaging Playful Experiences
Tracks
Networked Playscapes
Aim:
To explore the track and to create
installations that will make up a
networked playscape.

6. Look Back

7. Day 1
Understanding
“Open areas where one can play and interact with others”
Day 1: Understanding Networked Playscapes
• Connected Playscapes
• Telepresence
• Responsive Playscapes
• Playscapes that encourage
networking and interaction
Initial Understanding

8. Day 1
Understanding
“Open areas where one can play and interact with others”
Day 1: Understanding Networked Playscapes
Taking physical and digital, re-imagining and creating play-scapes that merge the
best of both worlds; engaging bodies, minds and people together.

9. Day 2: Understanding “Play”
Adalaj Stepwell Riverfront Park Ravivari Market

10. Day 2: Understanding “Play”
Adalaj Stepwell Riverfront Park Ravivari Market
Understanding the definition of “Play” in different contexts, and scenarios for different
people. A trip was made throughout the city to places with very different characteristics,
which in turn produced starkly different user behaviour and hence their own personal
definition of Play

11. Day 3: Brainstorm, Cross Present, Improvise

12. Day 4: Brainstorm, Present, Form Teams

13. Day 5
Day 5: Tinker and Make!

14. Day 6
Day 6: Make, Test, Polish

15. Now Let’s see
what we did
Day 7: Open House

16. 1. The profession of a MAKER

17. 1. The profession of a MAKER

18. Takeaways

19. 1. The Maker Movement

20. Design Dude Tech Dude Business Dude

21. The Maker Dude

22. Is he an expert?
The Maker

23. Yeah…but only at ing!
The Maker

24. Which team do you think is better?

25. 2. Microcontrollers
With great power comes
great responsibility

26. 3. Vision
Centric Design
The methodology to
“invent” the future.
Dream and Make

27. 4. Lean UX
Think
Make
Check
Repeat

28. 5. Modalities for a
better experience
GUI
TUI

29. But Wait!
Radical Atoms / MUI
By Prof. Hiroshi Ishii
The Future!

30. Thank You