Upbeat ideation

The workshop encourages and facilitates the participants to rethink, reinvent, or reconfigure whatever they wish. And so sky’s the limit, the world is your oyster, everything starts in your imagination. There’s not boundary (except of your own making) to what you can dream up and manifest. The workshop, then, asks for change, growth, transformation, progress. Where to begin? Reflect, daydream, doodle… make some ideas come to life in your imagination ... write them down, visualise them and decide how to make your new insight and inspiration lead to the next move towards reality. Precious stuff - you can do anything in the realm of ideation!

Imaginative practice

The ideation workshop promotes curiosity, inventiveness and playfulness through bridging imagination and hands-on practical activity in an open source environment. In this, the workshop encourages the explorative use of ideation tools, both analogue and digital (broadly defined). The exploration does not exclude the role of theory or hypothesis in the ideation process (applying new and diverse methodologies and critical theories to design) but rather reflects how practical problem solving and theory can work hand in hand. The workshop approach, moreover, is inspired by pedagogical and formative thinkers in educational psychology, such as John Dewey, and Leo Vygotsky. For example, Dewey, in his focus on means in education, sees experience as helping to form thinking, whereas Vygotsky, in his cultural historical theory, places culture as the raw material of thinking. Source, on the latter: Glassman, M. (2001). Dewey and Vygotsky: Society, Experience, and Inquiry in Educational Practice. Educational Researcher, 30(4), 3-14.