Hello lovely peeps!
I am a learning experience designer and a design mentor, and I believe after all these years of professional endeavours and personal explorations, it is safe to say that I think, eat, drink and dream about ‘how we learn’.
If you want me to pay attention, all you have to yell is ‘How we learn!’ and I will perk up my ears (and perhaps salivate) like Pavlov’s dog. Throw in a few keywords like ‘pedagogy, pattern-finding and play’, and I’ll probably roll on the floor for belly rubs.
But jokes apart, conversations and thoughts around learning - across all species are what really get me going. My love for how we learn is only second to my love for ‘design thinking’.
Let me tell you how it started. My bachelor’s degree in Architecture introduced me to the world of design and the power of design thinking. I spent a substantial amount of my career practising design thinking across design domains (architecture, interiors, graphics, UI/UX, et al.) This experience strengthened my grasp of the universal process for any designed product - the 🌟design thinking process🌟
One day while ruminating at leisure about the limitless application of the design thinking process (because what better to think about anyway), my thoughts fell upon the education system in India and the possibility of solving learning problems through an iterative design process.
Long story short, I pursued my Master of Arts, Design in Education from Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Through the interactions, readings, passionate debates (and an ocean of assignments that I was drowning in), I not only learnt how to apply my favourite design thinking process to the learning space but also became privy to the evidence on alternate learning methods - a sub-topic under the umbrella of ‘how we learn’ that I would love to talk to you about!
Today I apply all these insights from my professional experience and formal learnings towards better learning experiences and far more meaningful course creation.
If you’d like to know more about me or simply chat me up, do head to my LinkedIn profile! And while you’re at it, I’d love for you to poke around my capstone project at Srishti. It’s on ‘An Inquiry into the Different Notions of Learning’. The project was a result of a lot of blood, sweat and tears that were soaked in a warm blanket of tough love by my beloved professor Padmini Nagaraja.
If you’re curious about how I know Meghna, and why we decided to set up this space, click on the links below,
