hello people ..
i see that only one post is up .. as of now .. here's my point of view.
i hope formatting is not that necessary as long as the idea comes through .
before i begin on the topic itself I'd would like to share a few other things just my point of view , and a suggestion. when i heard about the concept of "multidisciplinary co-op learning event" i thought we'd definitely have one student from each discipline ... however we are again 5 designers and one engineer. and are ending up 'generating ideas' same thing we've been doing as a part of academics.
to bring in the different viewpoints (i believe) as intended i propose a modified six thinking hats system (search - edward de bono ; if wondering what thinking hats)....
where each hat would hold the thought vector of a stream (design management socials engineering) and discuss using the six hats system (or whatever number of hats)
also two more stakeholders namely govt and the users
now back to our topic ... agriculture and food shortage .
from the brief participation in the meeting yesterday .. i gathered we are also considering the medium of knowledge transfer to the base of the pyramid an important touch point .. apart from food storage mechanisms .. here are some of the ideas i got
1. written data to the farmers is like taboo ... they've seen it and put into their chulhas before ...
as sir suggested ..make it into a song or something my idea is to find ways to make our message stick to their heads.
the talking earthen-pot -- you put your ear to the "matka" to hear the message .... the activator or the switch to the voice message is toggled by shaking the matka . so you use it like this ... you pick it up shake it vigorously and put your ear to it ... the message (best around 30 secs) starts and ends .. shake again for next message.
2. board game ... maybe ludo ..very famous in the villages ... or that shell based game i dont remember exactly ... each participant starts with a hand full of grains/gravel ... penalties can be exchanged with some grain but the grain rots with each cycle of the board so use it in time or you lose it anyways ... details can be looked into .
3. maybe some social activities modeled into info sessions .. like hookah for the farmers
(male) some thing that can be done along with it .. a game where in order to get the hookah mouthpiece you have to complete some thing .. incentive based.
will bring some more probably to the meeting tomorrow.
pardon me for anytypos ..bad formatting !! till our meeting ...........
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