Idea Storm
This method encourages participants to adopt one another’s ideas, reflect critically on them, and then contribute with improvements or new directions.
How to run it
- Explain the purpose: to generate and improve ideas collectively through collaborative building.
- Emphasize that each stage is valuable and that even criticism can lead to innovative solutions.
- Define a design challenge or problem that needs innovative solutions and share it with the group.
- Write the initial idea:
- Each participant writes the challenge in the first section of their worksheet and proposes an unconventional solution.
- Participants pass their sheets to the person on their left.
- In the second section, each person writes a critique or a reason why the proposed solution might fail.
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Explain the purpose: to generate and improve ideas collectively through collaborative building.
Define a design challenge or problem that needs innovative solutions and share it with the group.
Participants pass their sheets to the person on their left.
In the second section, each person writes a critique or a reason why the proposed solution might fail.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Idea Storm. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Explain the purpose: to generate and improve ideas collectively through collaborative building.; Define a design challenge or problem that needs innovative solutions and share it with the group.; Participants pass their sheets to the person on their left.; In the second section, each person writes a critique or a reason why the proposed solution might fail.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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