Reflection – Mind Mapping tool

Challenge: For a hackathon my team was given a challenge to identify and think  of viable and innovative solutions in a hypothetical village called “Lokhad” in  the Indian state of Karnataka, we had to think of solutions which had to be focused  on village but the challenge was that we did not have any first-hand information  or even a village to survey and find out its problems since the place question was  a hypothetical location and neither of the people in our team were from a rural  are which made it difficult to get an insider approach to the problem, we will  focus on the methodologies  my team used to over this challenge.

Selection: My team had gone through several design thinking activities/tools and  after going through all of the design thinking methodologies we thought “The  mind mapping tool” would help us navigate the challenge, Mind Mapping  is  looking for patterns and insights in a large quantity of data you collected during  exploration of what is the current reality.

Application: My team drew a mind map with the keywords “Village of Lokhad”  and “General village” at the centre so that our team could draw parallels between  the common problems existing in most villages in the state of Karnataka to our  hypothetical village, doing such helped us tremendously in the “What is” phase,  with us narrowing down the problem pur team wanted to focus on we could now  move on to the “What if” phase where we again drew parallels to the possible  solutions already being used in these villages and modified them to suit our  demography.

The above image is the Mind map my team used in the hackathon.

Insight & Approach: From the mind-map we drew insights that most of the pre- existing solutions deployed onto the villages were based on the geographic and  geologic aspects such as location, type of soil and topography of that village in  order to get the most beneficial outcome, since we did not have any of that  information about our hypothetical village we the thought of focusing on the  problem which is extremely important to tackle and did not need that kind of  information, The problem we focused upon was Education.

We understood that lack of education was prevalent in a lot of villages  everywhere irrespective of their geographical advantage with this information we  put all our resources into finding solutions to provide sustainable solutions to help  educate the village. This is how mind mapping tool and Design Thinking  methodologies helped us tackle the problem given to us and ultimately helped us  win the hackathon.


Reflection – Mind Mapping tool Challenge : For a hackathon my team was given a challenge to identify and think of viable and innovative solutions in a hypothetical village called “ Lokhad ” in the Indian state of Karnataka , we had to think of solutions which had to be focused on village but the challenge was that we did not have any first - hand information or even a village to survey and find out its problems since the place question was a hypothetical location and neither of the people in our team were from a rural are which made it difficult to get an insider approach to the problem , we will focus on the methodologies my team used to over this challenge . Selection : My team had gone through several design thinking activities / tools and after going through all of the design thinking methodologies we thought “ The mind mapping tool ” would help us navigate the challenge , Mind Mapping is looking for patterns and insights in a large quantity of data you collected during exploration of what is the current reality . Application : My team drew a mind map with the keywords “ Village of Lokhad ” and “ General village ” at the centre so that our team could draw parallels between the common problems existing in most villages in the state of Karnataka to our hypothetical village , doing such helped us tremendously in the “ What is ” phase , with us narrowing down the problem pur team wanted to focus on we could now move on to the “ What if ” phase where we again drew parallels to the possible solutions already being used in these villages and modified them to suit our demography . The above image is the Mind map my team used in the hackathon . Insight & Approach : From the mind - map we drew insights that most of the pre- existing solutions deployed onto the villages were based on the geographic and geologic aspects such as location , type of soil and topography of that village in order to get the most beneficial outcome , since we did not have any of that information about our hypothetical village we the thought of focusing on the problem which is extremely important to tackle and did not need that kind of information , The problem we focused upon was Education . We understood that lack of education was prevalent in a lot of villages everywhere irrespective of their geographical advantage with this information we put all our resources into finding solutions to provide sustainable solutions to help educate the village . This is how mind mapping tool and Design Thinking methodologies helped us tackle the problem given to us and ultimately helped us win the hackathon .