Stall 87 Was More Than a Space. It Was a Conversation About Belief.
Thank you to the MIT and MSAP community for engaging with us at Innovation Mela. Your reflections, questions, and presence made Founders' Lab come alive.
What Happened at Stall 87
Stall 87 housed Founders' Lab, an experiment in making belief visible.
At the center was a board where participants placed markers to represent their core beliefs about design, identity, and decision-making. Some struggled to choose. Others moved their markers mid-conversation. A few stood back and watched before committing.
The crowd was diverse. Students from first, second, and final years—spanning engineering, computer science, architecture, and fashion—stopped to engage. Architecture students discussed how belief structures inform spatial design. Fashion students explored the connection between identity and aesthetic choices. Faculty members led conversations about interdisciplinary approaches to problem framing. Interns navigating career uncertainty asked questions about translating abstract thinking into tangible outcomes. Investors paused to observe how belief mapping might apply to founder evaluation. Outsiders from beyond MIT found themselves in unexpected dialogues about decision-making frameworks.
The stall became a studio for thinking out loud. Conversations ranged from technical career paths to the ethics of design decisions, from startup pivots to personal identity questions. Some discussions lasted three minutes. Others stretched into twenty.
What emerged was not product feedback or market validation. It was something rarer: honest reflection about how we make choices before we know what they mean.
Participant Voices
"This felt like a studio for thinking, not a stall."
"The board made abstract beliefs tangible."
"I kept moving my marker. That hesitation taught me something."
"It was the first conversation at Innovation Mela that asked me to pause and reflect."
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To the MIT and MSAP community: thank you.
Thank you to the faculty who stopped mid-corridor to engage. Thank you to the students who asked difficult questions. Thank you to the organizers who made space for experiments like Stall 87. Thank you to everyone who placed a marker, moved it, or simply stood and watched.
Innovation Mela reminded us that the most valuable conversations happen when people are willing to pause and reflect before acting.
We're grateful to have been part of it.