Time to do some ideation.
Here are few things to keep in mind:
Ensure that everyone is comfortable with the tools you are using, whether Miro, MS teams or Zoom. People will have very fast and rapid ideation exercises, so they need to feel comfortable in the virtual setting.
In this step, the focus of the exercises is not quality but quantity. The ideation space is a no-judgment space, so every idea is welcomed and encouraged.
If there is any spot in the DevPolHack when you can go wild with your ideas, this is the one! Let your imagination flow and make sure to voice out or share all your ideas!
To get the creative fluids running, the ideation game we recommend using is the 9 Dot problem.
The nine-dot problem was invented in 1930 and requires that nine dots arranged in a square be connected by four straight lines drawn without lifting the pen from the paper and without retracing any lines.
So, to solve the problem, you need to join all nine dots by drawing no more than four straight lines. The straight lines must be continuous – i.e. you must not lift your pen from the paper once you start drawing. Don't read any further until you've tried to solve the problem 😊
How did you get on? If you managed to solve it, give yourself a pat on the back and read on. If you’re not there yet, here’s a clue to help you. If you’re like most people, you will have tried to solve the problem by keeping your lines inside the ‘box’ created
by the dots. But if you look at the instructions, there is no requirement to do this. So have another go at solving the problem, allowing yourself to draw outside the box. Again, don’t read any further until you’ve either solved it or given up.
OK if you’ve either solved it or had enough, here are the solutions.
Video tutorial that can help to make it clearer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgngdrNNlgU
Now that you have formulated the problem/challenge and digged deeper into it, we can start with designing the solution. For that, we will use the so called “Double Diamond” model, also known as a road map for people who want to create things. The Double Diamond design model has been around since it was officially invented by the British Design Council, back in 2005.
Few different representations of the Double Diamond model:
Source: Moblab
Source: Justinmind
It’s important to bear in mind that this model isn’t linear in any way. In fact, creative people are encouraged to go back and forth between these stages in order to fully understand what the problem is and how they can either solve it, or improve on an existing solution. The official Double Diamond design model has four stages: Discovery, Definition, Development, and Delivery. Together, these stages work as a map that we can use to organize our thoughts in order to improve the creative process. The Double Diamond method is recognized for its advantages when designing an innovative project, especially during an agile workshop or a hackathon. It promotes the emergence and development of new ideas.
Before starting with brainstorming, make sure to repeat the HMW question and the challenge you are focusing on. Also, give a short description of the double diamond model and remind everyone that a new phase begind with these exercises
Double dimond picture can be used to explain that we are in the first diamon, in the very beginning
You can use the agenda as a checkpoint
Leave social media and promotion of the event as 2nd priority so participants feel safe to ideate and create without being publically shared.
Form pairs or threes
· Make up a story
· First line is: ‘On the way to venue this morning I…’
· Facilitator claps
· Next person adds the next line of the story, starting by saying ‘yes and….’
· Repeat.
3 mins to create your stories together; 5 mins debrief of lessons learn
In silence… Write as many ideas as you can, one per post it note, to answer the HMW question or tackle the challenge
You have 5 minutes.
Link to board:
Take turns sharing your ideas. Cluster them if needed.
Build on each other’s ideas. Write new ideas on post-its.
You have 15 minutes.
Same board
15 mins – What is the most evil or unconventional way to answer the challenge?
One per post-it.
Keep ideas separate from your others.
Link to board:
15 mins – flip them to positive solutions. Add those to your pool of ideas.
By now, you have most probably generated over 40 ideas per group. The next step is to Mash-them-up i.e find creative ways to combine all the ideas together in categories or clusters that make sense. Furthemore, this step should allow you to think of other ways to solve your design problem.
With this exercise we are moving to the second part of the first diamond (orange spot)
Step one:
After mashing up, participants will be askes to share what are some of the ideas that resonate strongest with the group.
The whole exercise should take not more than 25 mins (including presentations).
This will be the most challenging part of the ideation process for your participants. And it truly is!
After coming up with so many wild, crazy and fresh ideas, now the group has to make a decision of choosing ONE idea they will move forward with in this DevPolHack.
The ideal selection will happen in a session of 20 to 25 mins and it will guide groups how to make this “impossible” decision more easily 😊
Steps:
Link to board: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVM7sGeVo=/
Now you have your one idea, make sure to congratulate your team and go into a break! You absolutely deserve it 🙂
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DevPolHack:
Bridging Voices for Environmental Policy"
30-31 October’24
HELVETAS EASTERN EUROPE OFFICE
Bern / Switzerland
Belgrade / Serbia
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