Activity creates ideas

The trigger for the ideation workshop is that ideation is not a passive pursuit say, simply sitting waiting for ideas to pop up. On the contrary, the workshop is an active engagement with ideation tools, that is, from words and sketching to model making and computing. The activity takes many forms, for example, improvisation, or the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. Or, tinkering towards innovation, that is, the practice of experimenting, testing, probing, and making incremental improvements to existing designs and processes. And a great place for tinkering is often he studio (or the ubiquitous garden shed, or garage). And so the ideation workshop, through the activity of playing around with stuff, and asking "what if" questions creates opportunity to problem solving, indeed even problem finding.