The purpose of the workshop is to raise awareness of ideation tools in the design process. In this, the workshop gives designers the opportunity to explore a wide rage of ideation tools - from words to sketching and modelling - in order to help generate and communicate ideas. An agreed task or theme starts the ideation process in which the participants are encouraged to follow their creative impulse that goes beyond educational tradition and normative interests. Through excursions into the realm of ideas, the participants try out and reflect on ideation tools that are not just a function of language or technology (analogue and/or/both digital) but tools that stimulate, and facilitate non-hierarchical and non-linear design thinking. Ideation tools that have, at least potential power of denuding the esthetic cloak of the everyday, or enabling ways of seeing beauty, or ugliness in mass-fabrication or consumption, where "good design" cohabits the market of "kitsch". The participants, then, having experienced the intoxicating faculty of ideation, reflect on the tools used and the outcomes created. In other words, they learn, and appreciate the ideation tools they most enjoy, and get the most from.
