In 2022 India became the first country to offer Design Thinking as an option at K9-12 high schools. Design can be difficult to introduce in schools as it diverges from traditional classroom concepts.

Design problems are complex – thus delivering solutions for those problems can also be complex. Design thinking helps remove organizational silos and thus drives a culture of collaboration and experimentation.

Design Thinking (DT) is a methodology used by designers for solving complex problems and identifying suitable solutions for consumers or end-users. In simple words, this human-centered process of innovation emphasizes on what consumers would love to have and prevents organizations from making dicey instinctive bets by helping them understand what their potential customers really want.

The discourse on urban planning and development has evolved over the last century with top-down methods of planning urban spaces giving way to bottom-up approaches that involve residents and other stakeholders in the design process.