Change Your Introduction, Change The Atmosphere
At an event in Tucson, and in light of the recent events, we decided to take a different approach to the typical event introduction. Instead of one…
STOP: Teach Art Before Your Customers Answer Questions
Many of us run individual perspectives activities designed to allow participants to communicate their thoughts and feelings in a different way.…
Out of A Meeting and Daydreaming, A Company is Formed
Ever since The Sixth Sense, we have wanted to have wearable data, or at least Smart Clothes like in Back to the Future. Contrary to popular belief,…
Build A House Exercise
Click here to download (6MB) the materials necessary for the assignment (graphics, price lists, design requirements, materials...) No overview…
Models : Overview To Help Set Context
DESCRIPTION: In the “classic, 3-day DesignShop” an hour or so is set aside during the first day for the facilitation team to introduce models about…
Build A Model II
DESCRIPTION: This is a usually a DesignTeam module in the Scan phase of the process. Each team is given a materials for them to use to construct a…
Build A Model
DESCRIPTION: This is the generic form of a majority of DesignTeam assignments. Each team is assigned to build a model that clarifies some process or…
Modeling, Models and More
“The best learning takes place through play. I am not talking about playing with Nerf balls and hula hoops. Rather, I am talking about playing with…
You are the model (versus talking about the model)
Problem Models in and of themselves may or may not be useful to a recipient of the model. The form of the introduction of a model may even be an…
Simulations, Modeling, Elevating Collaboration
Problem Creating a future is extraordinarily difficult to do without experiencing it. You can’t know how to drive a car until you drive one. Humans…