Think Lab Activity 3: Stakeholder Mapping

One who is prepared, has half their battle fought; we all have a plan, a goal and a road map to reach the final destination; and i think this notion is also applicable in the word of design.

We initiated this session with some oral warm ups, by looking at some images and understanding various participants in the given situation. The brief was to state facts, no imagination, no creativity, no feeling just, straight facts.

Stakeholder mapping is the visual process of laying out all the stakeholders of a product, project or, ideas on one map. Main benefit of a stakeholder map is to get a visual representation of all the people who can influence your project. Just like usual our day was divided into 2 segments: Warm Up Activity and Main Activity.

WARM UP ACTIVITY

We began the activity with being divided into groups of 4, my group consisted of Suditi Malhotra, Piyush Deshwal, Srishti Arora and myself. We were given an image and we had to make a flow diagram or stakeholder map of the image and categorize them into; Main Stakeholder, Other Stakeholder, National and International. Our image was a scene from Metro. My peers and i had a small rapport building chat and then we moved on to actually making the map. Everybody started analyzing the image and came up with various outcomes.

Abbreviations:

1. CRPF: Central Reserve Police Force

2. DMRC: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited

3. UNCTAD: United Nations Conference On Trade and Development

4. JICA: Japan International Cooperation Agency

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MAIN ACTIVITY

The warm up activity paved the way for the main activity. Each member in each group had one hour to choose a character/person from the image provided to us and sketch them as precisely as possible. Then we had to write one sentence, describing what that person must be thinking in that particular situation situation.We had to draw their view point and their perspective through our eyes.

I drew the perception of a lady sitting at the extreme end of the seating panel. I went ahead and added few elements from my imagination, and because the lady was looking at the boys clicking a picture i wrote the thought ' the younger generation has a good understanding of phones'.

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OUTCOME

Group Struggles:

1. We struggled with some of the input in the stakeholder map, which we corrected after the faculty pointed it out.

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Group Achievement:

1. One of our group member's was a little unwell and despite that our outcome was good.

2. Feedback was circulated amongst the group regarding each others work which improved the quality of work.

3. We learnt quite a lot of the history of Delhi Metro and its origin

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LEARNING MANTRA

You learn something new, everyday

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Reflection:

When the activity initially started i thought there wasn't going to be any drawing involved and only economics; It was an irksome relief. Getting in touch with economics after so long was somewhat overwhelming until I realized its more than that, it's not going to be some random graphs and charts, but something we had to put our brains into. It was very exciting to analyse the given image with my peers and categorizing them. Our tutor also joined in while our discussion was going on and gave their input and suggested some changes that we could make. Then when they announced that we had to draw in our main activity there was a silent sigh of joy. In this activity i wanted to try something new so i decided to use water color which i am not so familiar with. I had seen my peers use it and i really like the effect it gave. I was very surprised by the outcome as i was 100% sure i was going to ruin it. I also really like how devoted all my group members were while working and how well they took the activity. Its fascinating how all the activities in Think Lab are so unique yet have some similarities in them.

'Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature always finds uncertainty fascinating'. -Karl Von Clausewitz

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