Sunday, 31 January 2010

HAPPENING - A Slice of Design Thinking

HAPPENING_

In this segment of our module we were required to create a 24 hour happening. Our sub group comprising of six members decided to conduct a Multi disciplinary workshop


The video in our Workshop was uploaded in YouTube.

A Slice of Design Thinking Part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzKz-RtxNM

A Slice of Design Thinking Part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNn_heNbTs









A Slice of Design thinking

We invited 8 members from varied Faculties of Kingston University and four members of our team joined with them in the workshop. Divided into three four groups of three members each over two sessions of two hours each.

For the participants it was the opportunity to understand Design Thinking and practically apply its tool to a creative result.

For us it was the opportunity to understand creativity and document how people from varied backgrounds work with each other and also an insight into how people approach a problem and express themselves.



Collaborate with Innoversity

In our search for a venue we contacted Corrine Buaumont from Innoversity.
Innoversity is Kingston University’s design thinking research centre of excellence. Their goal is to observe how technology, design and business (in academia) can work together for innovation.
We found that Innoversity was keen on sponsoring the workshop as this was exactly the kind of projects that they wanted to be associated with. They were willing to provide us with the space and equipment to run the workshop as well as provide for food (Pizza) and refreshments for all the participants.

With the venue and equipment in order our next course of action was to rope in the required number of participants. Innoiversity was kind enough to share their data base of contacts with us. In addition to this each of our group members sent out invites asking people to participate.

Simultaneously we started formally organizing the workshop.

We created an introductory presentation that gave information on the workshop and its contents, introducing the concept of Design thinking, Mind mapping and Prototyping.






Prototype Workshop

Once we had decided on the contents we ran a prototype session to flush out all the snags.





We also designed and produced a kit for each participant that comprised of a folder which contained useful information on the workshop, sketching sheets, pointers on mind mapping a name tag and some stationary.

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

HAPPENING

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Traces
Ref. No: 250120 10-kt12qj-103017 00

See the final Traces poster; a minute of the happening:
Below is an example of the happening set up in the lift: