Design Thinking Workshop is an activity of Panda Labs Viet Nam for teams and individuals who want to learn tools, approaches, and mindsets of design thinking and apply this method to address the plastic waste issue in Vietnam. 

In May, Panda Labs Viet Nam organized a 5-day training for 12 students at National University of Civil Engineering to introduce design thinking as a new problem solving approach and encouraged students to apply their engineering knowledge in creating models that help address the plastic waste issues in Viet Nam. Through the training, future engineers had the opportunity to learn how to put people at the center of their work, to seek understanding and insight through research and interviews, and experiment with different solutions. 

At the end of the training, students came up with 3 prototypes which are a trash collecting robot, an mobile application that encourages people to exchange used bottles for gifts, and a smart bin recycling plastic bottles lids. Students are currently developing prototypes to join the Plastic Innovation Contest in Phu Quoc this summer.

Litterati is an app that is empowering individuals to make a significant, measurable impact on the environment.You can join global cleanup challenges as well as create challenges in your community where your friends, family, neighbors, school system, or co-workers can join together to make your area healthy, clean, & beautiful.

Here is how the Litterati app works:

• Take a photo of each piece of litter that you collect and dispose of
• Litterati will automatically geo-tag the photo for you
• LitterAI tool will add tags to each litter photo for you to confirm or change
• Upload the photos to the Litterati database
• Track your personal impact as well as the total impact of the Litterati community