Week 5

In class this week we began by looking back at last weeks processes of innovation, and the first two phases of our project. We narrowed down the main concepts to two or three and pitched these to the class so that they could give us feedback in the form of a vote, to give us an idea of which concept to carry forward into an idea.

When we had done this, it was time to move on to the ideation phase of the project. We did a quick exercise outside to get us ready for this, where we went for a walk with a partner and came up with some crazy ideas of what we would take for a trip to the moon. The point was that no idea was a bad idea, and that we should encourage any idea. This led on to some ideas about our own project, our group decided to look more closely at the concept of creating multifunctional spaces for use outside the classroom, and we came up with a lot of crazy ideas e.g. Study caves, hammocks for free time, and a graffiti wall! These were among some more realistic ideas, and we continue the ideation process by sorting all of our ideas into how difficult they would be to carry out, and how many people they would help. 

Individually, we then looked at the array of ideas on the desk and drew what we visualised as the product or solution we would eventually create. These all turned out very differently, but it was good to see how everyone saw our final project.

This weeks class was an interesting one, as we began to see how each person in our group worked and the different ideas of innovation they had. I think some of the ideation processes worked well like the walk on the mood activity, but some seemed a little far-fetched, and I struggled to get into the right frame of mind during these activities. However, our final sketches showed that these were worthwhile and helped us during this ideation process.