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Intuitive design thinking to address human-wildlife conflict in Kenya
About these Facilitator Resources
While the Lion Lights story is available for self-directed learning on the webpage, a pack of supplementary resources is available to educators and facilitators to support your teaching and learning goals:
Slide decks: Ready for classroom use
Studio activities: A series of student activities to engage with, step by step
Conceptual mapping: Shows Design Thinking Tools, Practices, and Mindsets (as per our Conceptual Framework) mapped to the Lion Lights story
Stakeholders: Useful as a handout reference for the studio activities
Additional links: Additional links to blog posts, videos and academic articles about Lion Lights
Other Resources contributed by our user community will be added over time. Would you like to add a resource? See how you can contribute to this story.
How to use this story in your teaching
The Lion Lights story can be considered appropriate for students at the undergraduate level in any faculty or discipline. Feel free to use and adapt this Story for your setting, pointing students to the publicly accessible webpage, and then making it come alive within your context and curriculum.
Learning Objectives
You can use the Lion Lights story towards the following learning objectives for students:
Discover the Design Thinking process and its user-centered approach to problem-solving
Understand that Design Thinking can be an intuitive process
Flex students’ empathy muscles through employing empathy to see a problem from different perspectives
Tap into the value of failure in solution finding/innovation by evaluating how actions taken by the protagonist illicit new insights
Observe how low fidelity prototyping can reduce expensive mistakes when innovating
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Slide Deck 1
This deck of slides provides a selection of supporting visual resources that can be used when engaging with this story.
Image: European Patent Office
Slide Deck 2
This deck of slides, "Testing", shows us where we might see ideation and prototyping in Richard Turere’s journey to addressing human-wildlife conflict in Kenya.
Slide Deck 3
This deck of slides, "Implementation", shows us where we might see a sustainable business model in Richard Turere’s journey to addressing human-wildlife conflict in Kenya.
Studio Activity 1
“Where in the World are We?”: Quick overview of Kenya gives participants an opportunity to develop a quick, visual overview of Kenya’s location, demographics, economy, wildlife, history, and cultural diversity so they understand the broader system in which the case study is located.
Image: Public Domain
Studio Activity 2
“Who is affected or involved?” : Identifying stakeholders helps participants identify the human and animal stakeholders from the TEDTalk: Richard Turere (age 13): My invention that outsmarted lions, building awareness of direct and indirect parties affected by lion-livestock conflicts.
Image: Public Domain
Studio Activity 3
“Why do different views matter?” : Developing empathy provides participants with a way to develop and articulate empathy for key stakeholders by completing a facilitator-guided activity that prompts them to view the challenge from multiple perspectives.
Image: © Anne van Niekerk, CC-BY
Studio Activity 4
“How are the stakeholders interrelated?”: Stakeholder mapping gets participants to co-create a Stakeholder Map to visualise the complex interrelationships between the various stakeholder (connections, dimensions, motives, constraints, aspirations) within the context of the challenge.
Image: Public Domain
Studio Activity 5
“What is your context, who are your stakeholders & how do they interrelate?” sees teams undertake this mapping activity for their own specific challenge using the same sequential methodology adopted in previous activities.
Image: d-school Mindset Cards
Lion Lights:
Conceptual Mapping
This resource maps specific Tools, Practices, and Mindsets found in Lion Lights to the overarching Conceptual Framework.
Stakeholders
This resource looks at how Richard intuitively explored who the challenge of rapid urbanisation affects, how it affects them, and how this challenge affected the way people and animals relate to each other.
Additional Links
A selection of links to other stories, videos, online workshops, and academic articles to further explore the Lion Lights story.
🏷️Tools: Physical prototyping
🏷️Practices: Observation, Rapid prototyping, Iteration, User testing, real stakeholders, Problem immersion
🏷️Mindsets: Make Tangible, Bias to Action, Navigate Uncertainty, Lead with Curiosity, Be Driven to Make a Difference
🏷️General: Africa, Kenya, Lion, Cattle, Herder, Innovation, Richard Turere, Farmer, Maasai, Morans, Wildlife, Conservation, Agriculture
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