Ideation Workshop: Idea generation through science and science fiction | 04-21-22

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Ideation Workshop: Idea Generation through Science and Science Fiction is a workshop hosted by @vicilanaya to help changemakers get out of a creative block and generate new ideas for future technology or social impact projects.

This is a working document. Feel free to add your thoughts, ideas, or feedback about the event below.

Agenda

• Introduction
• Brief Description of Ideation
• Problem Discovery + Exercise
• Gap Analysis + Exercise
• Action!
• Upcoming Action Opportunities
• Goodbye

Resources

• Workshop Recording

• Event slide deck

• Activity template handouts:
  -- Problem Discovery Exercise (docx, pdf)
  -- Problem Discovery Exercise - 1 box (docx, pdf)
  -- draw.io - select the Maps section for living beings mind map example
  -- Miro mind map template
  -- Gap Analysis Exercise (docx, pdf)

• Links shared:
  -- Board of Innovation
  -- The Nielsen Norman Group
  -- Design Thinking Process, also
  -- Scientific Method
  -- Current Code for Orlando's Goals
  -- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, need for data development, Unified Volunteering Platform, Board of Innovation's social impact explanatory cards
  -- Board of Innovation’s Future Scan handout
  -- Julia Cameron - "Rather than trying to be brilliant, try to be of service" (video: min 5:31).
  -- The Science of People - "If you don't love what you're doing, what are you doing?" (How to be more creative, video: min 2:52)
  -- Transtheoretical Model (Stages of Change)
  -- Self-Efficacy, also

• Supernatural Zoom backgrounds
  -- https://twitter.com/valeriesprague/status/1249106310035111938?lang=en
  -- https://wallpapers.com/supernatural

Next Steps

• Review workshop slides (pdf)
• Be the champion your project needs
• Go to a prototyping workshop
• Post-event feedback survey
• Join our Brigade