MIT scholar brainstorms with students about Design thinking in tech innovation November 9, 2013 at 10:30am Prof. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and head of the MIT Media Labs Camera Culture research group had an insightful discussion with students at Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development (WeSchool) on the topic, “Design at Scale: A New Paradigm for Tech Innovation” on November 01, 2013. Prof. Ramesh Raskar engaged in an impelling session with students from various b-schools, design schools and medical institutes on the application of design thinking on scalable technology innovation, framing the discussion around his latest invention ‘eyeMitra’, a Mobile Retinal Imaging and Predictive Analytics solution. Through the session he elucidated on the need for a linkage between various streams of work. He enunciated on how constant communication and cooperation between various streams like management, engineering and design will lead to differential innovation. The session was in tandem with WeSchool’s focus on design thinking. It concurs with their constant effort to guide its students to break out of the conventional framework and to come up with pragmatic innovations for socio-economic needs. Understanding the intricacies of the complexly drawn up economy has helped WeSchool to transform itself into a b-school with design thinking at its core. Appreciative of WeSchool’s leaning, Prof Ramesh advised the students to focus their energies on devising solutions for socially relevant problems that will help the common man in various aspects of life. He also spoke about how the MIT Media Labs Camera Culture research group has pioneered in innovation and idea generation through an amalgamation of professional culture and various field of work for broader perspective and clarity while innovating. While concluding, he requested the audience to never stop ideating and to take action on the problems they face on a day today basis, but first to interact and brainstorm with people from different backgrounds to discern social issues and to craft solutions that address it efficiently, economically and quickly.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:28:41 +0000
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