Welcome words presented by Kalevi Ekman, Director of Aalto University Design Factory, and Markus Nordberg, Head of Resources Development, CERN Development & Innovation (RCS-PRJ-DI)
How do we inspire people to engage in development efforts? To persist in the long path of turning ideas into reality? To benefit from others’ expertise in doing so? In seeking answers to these questions, we’ve come to embrace a holistic development approach we call passion-based co-creation. Rather than being a method, or even a set of specific methods, it reflects a collection of overall...
In Design Factory world, students come first, second and third. We all love pedagogical development and innovation, we are always searching for disruptive methodologies and practices, and we all love to experiment with new ways of learning. Yet, passion-based learning heavily depends on the students’ inner motivation and restlessness may well be the one driver that teachers can’t actually...
“A coach is someone who evokes passion and purposes in others, within the dissolving and reconstituting environments of our time” Frederic Hudson, 2012. Our world is constantly changing, and navigating increasingly complex human and technological systems requires collaborative team capability rather than individuals to respond in innovative ways. In this talk Dr. Christine Thong, Academic...
Virtual collaboration brings additional challenges to co-located co-creation, concentrating on the effects that virtual collaboration has on nine key design activities, such as reframing the problem or concept specification. In this talk Tuuli Utriainen and Joona Kurikka, Researchers and Student Course Coordinators from CERN Ideasquare also present an exercise that teams can run in the...
Innovation and creativity can best flourish in the right circumstances in an organization, and the assumptions, values and norms of the organization will either nurture or constrain creativity and innovation depending on how they influence the behavior of individuals and groups. In this talk Paivi Oinonen, Strategist at Design Factory Global Network (DFGN) will explore the experience of Aalto...
Input is needed from stakeholders to build innovation ecosystems, with ecosystem players being interdependent. In her talk Pauliina Mattila, Coach at Design Factory Melbourne argues that engaging and co-creating on several levels of the ecosystem requires shifting from transactional collaboration to a more co-creative process.
