A practical approach to exploring different making and learning approaches

Abstract

This workshop will be lead by Phillippa Rose and Joss Langford bringing together significant expertise in design, technology and innovation.

We will run a practical interactive workshop to demonstrate the potential of collaboration and making to achieve rapid innovation. By removing heirarchy, and using an agile, flat structure, we will bring experts and non experts together to collaboratively problem-solve and make low-fidelity paper prototypes in response to a series of practical challenges. These challenges will be specifically designed to test both the STI (Science, Technology Innovation) & DUI (Doing Using Interacting) paradigms.

We will convene a group of conference attendees together and support and enable them to devise concepts and 2D/3D prototypes of solutions to the challenges set using DUI and STI approaches in two teams, and then swap approaches, and repeat. Intelligence in this context "isn’t about seeking sophistication or perfection by
over-engineering products, but rather about developing a ‘good-enough’ solution that gets the job done", Jugaad Innovation. Radjou et al., 2012, p. 109 ff.
We will then reinforce the practical learning, by unpicking the academic theories behind both innovation approaches reinforcing the learning. The session will demonstrate the potential of co-design and frugal innovation, through combining ‘learning by doing’, with valuble insights into academic theory (e.g. Modes of Innovation and Knowledge Taxonomies in the Learning economy, Jensen, Johnson, Lorenz and Lundvall., 2007).