Ideation workshop in the age of algorithms

Algorithm-driven design and ubiquitous social media may suggest that the process of ideation is changing. However, design ideation embraces new tools and mediums combining analogue, digital and hybrid production modes, from an arts-and-crafts approach to algorithm- and theory-based design, including research and development. Thus the ideation workshop continues to provide a flexible and stimulating learning environment which is conducive to speculation, conjecture and testing of ideas in a collaborative manner ending with group presentation and discussion. In this process, ideation tools are applied to their fullest potential for generating and communicating ideas, and whether the tools employed consist of narratives, hand craft techniques or computer hard- and software.