Reflection – Storytelling 

 Challenge : 

 I ’m a final year undergraduate student in an Indian College . The college administration 

 invited final years for discussions to develop measures to make our campus more friendly for 

 women . On discussing about this issue with our female friends in college , we arrived at our 

 problem statement : “ Promoting Gender Equity in Campus ” . Our campus is very 

 conservative . While men are given enough freedom to do as they wish throughout the day , 

 women are confined within their hostels post a 9 PM curfew . The issue of Promoting Gender 

 Equity in Campus could be considered a “ wicked problem ” . 

 Tool Selection : 

 To tackle this wicked problem , we made use of the tool : Storytelling . Storytelling engages 

 people and allows us to understand their unarticulated needs as they share their experiences 

 and values ( Ref . Week 2 Lecture4 https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design- 

 thinking - innovation / lecture / PAXCd / storytelling - tool ) . It explains the interconnections among 

 people in situations and settings , and teaches broad lessons that engage real human beings . 

 Stories generate questions , questions expand the breadth and depth of stories and this leads to 

 lots of innovative thoughts and ideas . 

 Tool Application : 

 We invited both male and female friends to talk about their routines . As they shared their 

 routines , the female friends observed the striking differences between their routines and the 

 routines of our male friends . We made use of journals maintained by our friends to 

 understand their needs better . We also asked our friends to imagine a situation where they 

 would be free to do as they wish and then asked them to narrate what they imagined . 

 Insight : 

 The female friends unanimously agreed that the 9 PM curfew was the main problem which 

 inhibited them from doing something that one of our male friends could do at night ( Like 

 going to a shop within campus to eat noodles or access our computer centre ) . However , they 

 also agreed that the curfew was an assurance to their parents that they were safe . So we 

 finally suggested the administration to introduce curfew free zones for women within campus 

 ( other than hostel ) where they could spend time even post curfew , and make the curfew time 

 10 PM instead of 9 PM . The administration tried this for one month ( before we had to come 

 back home due to lockdown ) . So far , the results have been promising . The women in our 

 campus could enjoy more freedom without any compromise on their safety . 

 Approach : 

 An alternative approach that could be used is Mind Mapping . Mind Mapping will help in 

 looking for patterns and themes in the data concerning the routines of female students ( Ref . 

 Week 3 Lecture 4 https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking- 

 innovation / lecture / lsFRa / mind - mapping - tool ) . This can kick start the idea generation process 

 which can help in developing ideas to look at our problem statement with a different 

 perspective . We have n’t tried this alternate approach , but I ’m sure this approach would give 

 some amazing ideas to tackle the problem of Promoting Gender Equity in Campus . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Reflection – Storytelling 

 Challenge : 

 I ’m a final year undergraduate student in an Indian College . The college administration 

 invited final years for discussions to develop measures to make our campus more friendly for 

 women . On discussing about this issue with our female friends in college , we arrived at our 

 problem statement : “ Promoting Gender Equity in Campus ” . Our campus is very 

 conservative . While men are given enough freedom to do as they wish throughout the day , 

 women are confined within their hostels post a 9 PM curfew . The issue of Promoting Gender 

 Equity in Campus could be considered a “ wicked problem ” . 

 Tool Selection : 

 To tackle this wicked problem , we made use of the tool : Storytelling . Storytelling engages 

 people and allows us to understand their unarticulated needs as they share their experiences 

 and values ( Ref . Week 2 Lecture4 https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design- 

 thinking - innovation / lecture / PAXCd / storytelling - tool ) . It explains the interconnections among 

 people in situations and settings , and teaches broad lessons that engage real human beings . 

 Stories generate questions , questions expand the breadth and depth of stories and this leads to 

 lots of innovative thoughts and ideas . 

 Tool Application : 

 We invited both male and female friends to talk about their routines . As they shared their 

 routines , the female friends observed the striking differences between their routines and the 

 routines of our male friends . We made use of journals maintained by our friends to 

 understand their needs better . We also asked our friends to imagine a situation where they 

 would be free to do as they wish and then asked them to narrate what they imagined . 

 Insight : 

 The female friends unanimously agreed that the 9 PM curfew was the main problem which 

 inhibited them from doing something that one of our male friends could do at night ( Like 

 going to a shop within campus to eat noodles or access our computer centre ) . However , they 

 also agreed that the curfew was an assurance to their parents that they were safe . So we 

 finally suggested the administration to introduce curfew free zones for women within campus 

 ( other than hostel ) where they could spend time even post curfew , and make the curfew time 

 10 PM instead of 9 PM . The administration tried this for one month ( before we had to come 

 back home due to lockdown ) . So far , the results have been promising . The women in our 

 campus could enjoy more freedom without any compromise on their safety . 

 Approach : 

 An alternative approach that could be used is Mind Mapping . Mind Mapping will help in 

 looking for patterns and themes in the data concerning the routines of female students ( Ref . 

 Week 3 Lecture 4 https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking- 

 innovation / lecture / lsFRa / mind - mapping - tool ) . This can kick start the idea generation process 

 which can help in developing ideas to look at our problem statement with a different 

 perspective . We have n’t tried this alternate approach , but I ’m sure this approach would give 

 some amazing ideas to tackle the problem of Promoting Gender Equity in Campus .
### Output: 