IdeaSquare Planet workshop in NYC with Ramaz high school

10 Nov 2025, 09:00 → 13 Nov 2025, 17:00 US/Eastern

Laura Wirtavuori

IdeaSquare Planet - 🌎 🪐 

Embark on an adventure of a lifetime to a distant exoplanet - within this immense mission you will focus on solving one complex challenge. After creating solutions on this exoplanet, you will journey back to Earth. How can we translate our insights and learnings to the only planet we truly have?

IdeaSquare Planet, or i2P for short, is a novel methodology developed at CERN IdeaSquare in collaboration between its partners and staff to enable those brave enough to tap deep into their creativity. Participants are encouraged to aim at solving complex problems by removing barriers to creativity, applying a systems-thinking approach, using future thinking as a tool, and being inspired by the way physicists and engineers work at CERN. Contrary to what some might expect from a course held by CERN, we are not expecting you to be physicists or engineers – we truly believe that for change to be made, multidisciplinary discourse is required.

Be curious, be open, learn.

Monday 10 November

09:00 → 10:30 Opening talk: On curiosity

Speaker: Mario Livio

10:30 → 11:30 CERN and IdeaSquare

Speaker: Laura Wirtavuori

11:30 → 12:00 Getting to know each other and forming teams

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch and meeting your team

13:00 → 14:00 Your adventure starts here

Presenting the first part of the adventure

Notes: Link to notes

Speaker: Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)

i2P for Ramaz_11.25.pdf

14:00 → 16:30 teamwork

Tuesday 11 November

09:00 → 09:30 Morning coffee and stories from physics and CERN

Speaker: Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)

09:30 → 10:00 Prototyping as a tool for communication

10:00 → 12:00 teamwork

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 teamwork and preparing to present

15:00 → 16:30 First presentations - Planet Y

Wednesday 12 November

09:00 → 10:00 Reflection on first part of adventure

Speaker: Laura Wirtavuori

10:00 → 11:00 Coming back to Earth - presentation of second part of the adventure

i2P for Ramaz_planetEarth.pdf

11:00 → 13:00 teamwork

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:30 Teamwork

Thursday 13 November

09:00 → 12:00 Teamwork

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:00 Presentations on coming back to Earth

14:00 → 14:30 Reflection

Speaker: Laura Wirtavuori

14:30 → 16:00 Closing talk: is the Earth exceptional?

Speaker: Mario Livio