Local Innovation Studio

Prepare – Immerse – Reflect – Document – Innovate

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A unique opportunity to explore the complex country of Nepal – to revisit its arts, crafts and ecologies in order to re-evaluate their essence in our changing world.

Through home-grown and grass root exploration, it will forge a new paradigm for societal transformation.

This multi-disciplinary program is designed around community immersion where participants study, map and develop a pilot, prototype, or project around Nepal’s crafts and innovations.

Community, Culture & History
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Storytelling & Entrepreneurship
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Design & Innovation

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An 8 week program with:

2 Weeks of Community Immersion and Mapping

6 Weeks Design and Prototyping

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this program participating students will be able to:

An increased understanding of Nepali craft and heritage including local social contexts, built environment, history, tangible and intangible heritage.
Cross- cultural, cross-disciplinary, inter-generational collaboration, cultural sensitivity and engagement with people from various backgrounds in collaboration with local partners, effectively work within cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary teams in order to achieve professional and personal goals.
Sharing your work and the outcomes of projects – display increased professional skills including group-work, leadership, oral communication, project design and management.
Improved understanding and appreciation of active global citizenship, social enterprise and community development issues.
Improved ability for personal and professional reflection and growth.

Components

Workshops – including system and design thinking and regenerative design

Rural Immersion –comprehensive and transformative journey in rural Nepal

Networking – networking with groups of people doing transformative works in and outside Nepal

Action Project – working in a team to develop a project aligned the program.

Sounds like your cup of nyano chiya?

If you’re ready to take on the Local Innovation Studio program – visiting and exploring innovations and crafts close to home, working with interdisciplinary teams, understanding innovators and their stories, building on these innovations and working with your hands – drop us your contact information and we’ll get back to you with details on how you can get involved.

**Applications closed for July-August session

Our team

Suzzeet Shrestha

Lab-Apprentice

Raunak Chaudhari

Lab Master – DoLAB / Brand & Marketing Coordinator

Past projects

DoCAMP @ Panchkhal

A 5-day residential workshop at Panchkhal where entrepreneurs, students from the community and students from King’s College came together to work on ideas for various opportunities in the community.

DoSHOP for YUWA

A 30-day engagement for youths from YUWA where we worked together to create human centered ideas around climate change and SRHR themes.

RESA Incubation Program - Design Sprint

We conducted a 4-day design sprint for the participants of ICIMOD’s RESA Incubation Program in collaboration with Nepal Communitere to help them incorporate Renewable Energy solutions in agriculture.

Human Centered Approach to Incubation and Acceleration

A five day design thinking based workshop for entrepreneurs and innovators in Surkhet and Achham in collaboration with DSV Advisors.

Little Big Bootcamp

A 3-part grant writing bootcamp for innovators in the non-profit sector.

DoSHOP for The Asia Foundation

A workshop for participants from five different organizations working for women-empowerment to find a common ground to work on and find ways to add value as members of a collaboration.

Immers-ED

A 1-month Project Based Learning online course exploring the future Communiversity idea at King’s broadly based on human centered design.

Generation Unlimited Youth Challenge

A 5-day workshop and 1-month mentorship program for 50+ all female participants organized in collaboration with Tyrocity (King’s Alumni) and UNICEF.

Country VS Covid-19 virtual workshops

We participated as facilitators in Impact Week’s initiative to run virtual design thinking workshops across Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa as well as Nepal during the Covid-19 crisis.

Concept Development for Impact

As a part of the BUCSBIN collaboration, coaches & lab masters from DoLAB as well as students from King’s took part in a 5-day residential Lab Studio based workshop.

Do Shop for Rotaractors

A workshop organized for Rotaract District Nepal to help their team ideate new and impactful community activities.

Do Camp for Agripreneurs

A 3-day workshop for industry professionals from across the country in collaboration with Caritas and Eco Himal Nepal to solve agriculture related issues in Nepal.

Industry Lab

A 3-day bootcamp for the students of King’s as well as industry professionals where they collaboratively worked on innovative ideas for real world applications.