Design Thinking Workshop using Applied Theatre

First Drop Theatre brings to you - Feel. Experience. Design. - A Workshop on Design Thinking through Applied Theatre

An experiential, full-day workshop where Design Thinking is not taught - it is lived. Step into the lives behind real-world problems through performance, movement, and live human interaction. Question assumptions. Build human-centred solutions. Test them live in the room.

Not slides. Not sticky notes.

More about the Workshop

Design Thinking is a human-centred approach to problem-solving - one that starts not with solutions, but with genuine understanding of the people the problem affects. Originally developed in the world of product and service design, it is now used across industries, organisations, and social contexts to tackle everything from workplace culture to public policy.

The workshop takes participants through all five stages of Design Thinking - Empathise, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test - using the tools of Applied Theatre like Image Theatre, Forum Theatre, Applied Improvisation, and Embodied Prototyping. Every stage is experienced in the body, not just understood in the mind.

Who is this for?

Professionals, practitioners, and curious thinkers who work with people, systems, or ideas - and want a deeper, more honest way of understanding the problems they solve. Useful for product managers, HR and L&D professionals, designers, consultants, educators, social sector workers, facilitators, and anyone who has sat through one too many sticky-note sessions and wanted something more real.

No prior knowledge of Design Thinking or theatre required. Curiosity is the only prerequisite.

About the Facilitator

Bejoy Balagopal - part engineer, part storyteller, long-time theatre practitioner, and co-founder of First Drop Theatre. 25 years navigating corporate and creative worlds. Holds a Professional Certificate in Design Thinking and Innovation with AI from IIM Kozhikode.

Poster Description - Features a warm, textured background with soft circular shapes. The words - "Feel. Experience. Design." - are displayed in large, hand-lettered text, with a photograph of the facilitator in the upper right. A row of small sticky notes are scattered across the middle of the poster, each carrying a single word - Feel, Inhabit, Question, Build, Break, Discover.