This interactive, multi-part workshop is designed to explore and craft future scenarios where technology and data intersect with societal needs. Participants will engage in creative processes to contemplate the future of digitalization and its impact on various sectors.
Workshop Objectives
- Generate innovative ideas by leveraging collective creativity.
- Anchor these innovative ideas in the current technological and social landscape.
- Formulate concrete and engaging visions of the future.
- Integrate ideas into teaching programs and research directions.
Workshop methodology
This four-day workshop is designed to foster innovative thinking and strategic planning in the context of future-oriented technology and societal needs. Participants will engage in a series of structured activities to develop and refine their ideas, culminating in presentations that integrate these concepts into actionable strategies and narratives.
Day 1: Brainstorming and Design
- Engage in thematic exploration to initiate brainstorming sessions.
- Formulate and refine innovative ideas that weave together futuristic scenarios, involved technologies, and their societal impacts.
- Prepare and showcase an artistic or digital mind map presentation to visually communicate the design fiction scenario.
Day 2 : Project Design
- Conduct in-depth research and discussions on current technologies and societal trends to ground creative ideas in reality.
- Assemble a comprehensive resource drive containing pertinent articles, trend reports, and case studies to support the project development.
- Undertake a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to the proposed ideas.
- Create a problem tree to visually map out the challenges and interconnections of the issues at hand.
- Strategize and prioritize project actions using the MoSCoW method to outline clear implementation steps.
Day 3: Project Implementation
- Define precise project objectives and identify the direct beneficiaries to ensure targeted outcomes.
- Allocate responsibilities by identifying work packages and assigning potential leaders to each segment.
- Establish key performance indicators to measure the project’s success.
- Detail the necessary activities required for each work package and schedule these tasks effectively.
- Assess and document potential risks, strategize on mitigating these risks, and plan for potential partnerships and resource allocations.
Day 4: Restitution and Evaluation
- Facilitate a final presentation session where each group showcases their achievements and the speculative design narratives developed during the workshop.
- Conduct a thorough discussion to critique and evaluate the proposed solutions, focusing on their feasibility, innovation, and potential for real-world application.
- Discuss the integration of these design fictions into future teaching modules and research initiatives, encouraging ongoing collaboration and development.
This structured approach ensures that participants not only generate creative and forward-thinking ideas but also develop practical strategies for implementing these ideas, thereby bridging the gap between theoretical concepts and actionable solutions.
Team Building Components
- Part 1: Creativity Workshop – “Innovation Passport” Teams receive a collective innovation passport, earning stamps or stickers for original ideas or significant contributions, fostering friendly competition an d maximizing creativity.
- Part 2: Strategic Contextualization Workshop – “Problem Tree“ Teams deepen collaboration when each group develops a strategy based on a specific creative idea, later exchanging strategies for review and development.
- Part 3: Vision Workshop – “Collective Collage” Teams create a visual collage of their shared future vision, which fosters a shared sense of ownership and vision among team members.
- Part 4: Restitution Workshop – “Tree of Achievements” For the grand finale, the tree of achievements becomes a collective artwork where each team “plants” their ideas as leaves or fruits, illustrating the variety of projects or concepts born from their collaborative efforts.
Expected Outcomes
- Ideas ready for interdisciplinary teaching and research.
- Strengthened professional network and cross-sectoral collaboration.
- Innovative strategies and projects for effective implementation.
Workshop Tools:
- Innovation Passports: Physical document and reward contributions.
- Problem Tree: Artistic materials or mind-mapping applications for problem and cause visualization.
- Collective Collage: Artistic materials or graphic design software for visual representations.
- Tree of Achievements: Artistic materials or mind-mapping applications.
- Presentation Technologies: PowerPoint, Prezi, or similar tools for final presentations in the restitution workshop.
