Resumen de Developing a design thinking curriculum for venture creation in resource-constrained environment
Neeraj Sonalkar, Ade Mabogunje, Larry Leifer
Design Thinking has been used in educational courses in high-income countries to address challenges in lower-income,resource-constrained environments. Most of these courses present the need of low-income communities as the context inwhich students learn and practice their Design Thinking. The interaction with lower-income communities is limited to needfinding and product testing. There is a dearth of Design Thinking courses situated wholly in resource-constrainedenvironments and consequently a gap in our understanding of how a Design Thinking curriculum might work in aresource-constrained environment. In this paper, we describe the development of a Design Thinking curriculum forventure creation in Nigeria and India using Scho ̈n’s framework of reflective design practice. The paper presents eightprinciples that were used to frame a Design Thinking curriculum and outlines the key insights learned from the process ofdesigning and implementing seven prototypes of a Design Thinking curriculum.
