Idea factory workshop
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The document outlines the steps of an idea generation workshop program. It involves individual brainstorming, small group discussions to build on ideas, an intervention to provide broader context, sharing ideas publicly, organizing the ideas into clusters, focusing on select topics to develop proposals, and presenting and receiving feedback on the proposals. The goal is to generate new ideas for how the internet may be used in 20 years through a structured collaborative process.
Idea factory workshop
- 1. Idea-Factory
- 2. Step 0: individual idea generation (incubation) Step 1: small group interaction (build on) Step 2: intervention (widen views) Step 3: sharing ideas (broadcasting) Step 4: sense-making (clusters) Step 5: focus & develop Step 6: present & vote Program
- 3. Step 0: individual idea generation (incubation) Participants take home the question: “what will the Internet be used for in 20 years?” They ponder this question for 7 days individually, together with the accompanying question: “what do you use the Internet for today?”
- 5. Participants are 16 last-year students of Industrial Design & Engineering (Industrial/IT). Average age: 22. Activity is part of their Innovation course. Sample responses: ● Instant shopping: Reconstitution of purchased items on 3D home printers, hologram shopping centers online with full global catalogues, online fitting and test rooms of items with augmented reality and tangible holograms where people can try out what they will buy, showrooms that enter a personal preference database and shows the customer worldwide offers and discounts on items focused on personal tastes and preferences. ●Communication: augmented reality rooms where people far away from each other can interact in a personalized environment with tangible virtual objects, neural gadgets where people can receive instant voicemails or have conversations without the need of an electronic device, wireless webcams that could life stream exactly what other people is watching, feeling and hearing to another person far away. ●Business: electronic avatar robots controllable online that people can rent to do something somewhere else without having to be present, tactile screen tables where people can interact with files and images at the same time in two different places.
- 6. Step 1: small group interaction (build on) “World Café” activity (http://www.theworldcafe.com) Participants share, clarify and build on each others' ideas in rapid sessions where teams are shuffled every 5 minutes and a leader makes notes that are presented once all participants have participated in most teams
- 8. You may read these guidelines to formulate questions:
- 9. Step 2: intervention (widen views) Workshop organiser gives a 10-minute presentation in order to give some perspective, widen the issues at hand and complement the World Café's results. Ideas presented here include: Internet for development, future of semantic web, intelligent/creative online agents, future hardware devices, knowledge society...
- 11. Step 3: sharing ideas (broadcasting) Participants are given 10 Post-It notes and asked to write down one idea on each paper and paste it on the wall. Ideas are prioritised, summarised and shared with everyone.
- 13. Step 4: sense-making (clusters) In groups of 3, participants read and organise the ideas into clusters, grouping them in topics. Each group has only a couple of minutes to contribute, all participants have a go at arranging and re-arranging the ideas.
- 16. Step 5: focus & develop Teams are self-organised around the main topics chosen by the workshop organisers. They work on a concrete theme, build a set of proposals and prepare a quick pitch to present to the entire group.
- 18. Step 6: present & vote Teams present their results and the rest of the group provides feedback in three categories: “I like...”, “You should look into...”, and “I didn't like...” They do this by writing down their feedback in Post-It Notes that are pasted on the wall
- 19. RESULTS ( to come )
- 20. DISCUSSION ( to come )