Studying nature's best ideas, imitating the designs and processes and learning from life's 3.85 billion years of design experiments.
THE CONCEPT
Design thinking methodology is the co-creation of potential solutions by breaking down problems into manageable parts. Creativity solves the problems and solutions are prototyped and tried out on a small scale
Stakeholders were drawn from initiatives such as permaculture agriculture, crafts manufacture, localised energy capture and the bicycle repair shed.
DESIGN THINKING WORKSHOP
One of the new ideas was to enable clinics to communicate health care information, appointments and medication prescriptions directly to patients via an app.
BOTSHABELO
MDANTSANE
DESIGN THINKING WORKSHOP
A major theme that emerged in Mdantsane was the need for mapping and digitising as many businesses as possible using location verification services.
DESIGN THINKING WORKSHOP
Outcomes included ideas for the development of secondary products such as pasteurised milk to sell to markets as well as unpasteurised milk to sell locally.