EXAMPLE REFLECTION – LEARNING LAUNCH

CHALLENGE

I am student in my college and we have been given a task to make  the campus sustainable. Our campus covers a huge area and there  are more than 2000 people working in it. So definitely the amount of  resources like electricity, water, food etc will be needed more than  normal usage and there are a lot of energy that’s being wasted as  students can be completely careless. So our challenge was to bring  sustainability within the campus. The management has promised to  help us in every way possible.

SELECTION

We have come across and discussed about different designing tools  and we are ready to use the Learning Launch tool. Learning Launch is  a tool that lets us test the idea or prototype quickly.

APPLICATION

First we tried to focus on water management as it a huge campus  with a huge population. The campus itself is like a world inside a  world. And the amount of water being used is pretty huge and I can  also say most of it is being wasted. So we came up with a plan to  purify used water and use them to water the lawns and run the  fountains. Half of the area inside the campus is surrounded by trees  and this method can bring sustainability.

Second we tried to focus on electricity. Electricity is also being used  in massive amounts. So replacing it with solar power and cut off  power can work and instead of supplying in separately they can all  be linked to one main switch so that it would be convenient.

INSIGHT

With the help of the Learning Launch tool we came up with  assumptions and ideas and that could actually work.  We approached  the management and it wasn’t that big of a deal so they didn’t turn  down the idea and they were pretty impressed by it. So because of  this tool we came up with the anticipated results and acceptable  approach.

APPROACH

The team came up and tried different tools and we figured out that  learning launch was the appropriate tool. Overall it was a nice  experience coming with the ideas and insights and finally resolving  the problem. Though our campus maybe not fully sustainable, it is  partly sustainable.

