The event is to end by 16:00. This last activity was actually planned to last a whole hour, now it is around half past three. On the project manager’s request, eve-ryone gets back to their seat, and he takes the word:
“Yes, as the last point, we wanted to talk about the Next Steps. As you just said, there are a lot of things
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4/Group 1 joins, and they take a round of re-telling their journeys one group at a time. Innovation sud-denly gets very practical – different quite common ways of working such as ‘focus groups’ and ‘probes’
come to the surface as well as approaches of working with experiments and real-life prototyping.
5/ 6/ 7/ Additionally, suggestions like ‘Building onto local communities and initiatives’ and working
‘situation-oriented’ have been written down, and questions like ‘Why splitting up campaigns, events, collaborations and concepts?’. All these are briefly discussed, but…
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but that was also the idea of the workshop today – to open up (…) You get a feel for what our model could look like and also what kind of issues we are to address (…) I think we got some very sharp statements about some of the challenges the design bureaus see today (…) and with us as a research environment. When establishing new innovation models, how do we ma-nage these transitions from opening up and somehow
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Afterwards...
Shortly after the event, a (closed and later public) project blog was established. On the blog, the fol-lowing was shared about this event: the agenda, links to the different presentations, some selected images and an illustrated and commented series of selected waste-plates made by one of the co-organizers of the event.
The manager left the first blog post further re-flecting upon insights and challenges. Additionally, the core team also established a web archive for storing all the images and video documentations. In the studio, several shelves were emptied to store the boards of situations, the wooden pieces, the used anecdote cards, etc.
Many other collaborative events followed during the 20 months of the DAIM project. The first next event was a month later with about 30 public and private company stakeholders interested in the topics of waste handling and recycling and design-anthropological approaches.
The pilot-project on waste-handling ended in April 2009, and was disseminated in a ‘Box of inspiration’
targeted (Appendix 05) for wastehandling profes-sionals interested in applying a
design-anthropolo-gical and co-designing approach in their work. (Copied from blog on 02. November 2011)
After this other shorter projects run by the partner design consultancies were done to explore and further develop the DAIM-model and tools. Parts of this Kick-off event and parts from the many other activities are gathered in the final book about the project Rehearsing the Future (Halse et al., 2010) (Appendix 05).
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This Exemplar 03 is mainly intertwined in the thesis in the following places:
P&A
Part A / Chapters 2, 3 Part B / Chapters 5, 6
Part C / Chapters 8, 9 Part D / Chapters 10, 12 create a starting point for continuous change, and
that is exactly a concern that several of you pointed to (…) There is also a lot of representatives from the municipalities in this group, (…) it is not a question of inventing everything anew but finding a way to bring together. So over the next month, we would like to produce a document that gives a collage of a first tentative innovation model – pointing to the tools in the toolbox (…) and to give an idea about how to integrate design interventions and anthropological interventions as a part of innovation. We would like to see this as a starting point (…) (He explains various already scheduled plans in the near future).
I think we should just open up for very brief com-ments and thoughts about these Next steps…The floor is open…”
Different ideas, wishes and questions are shared e.g.:
a common site for sharing images; an internal blog for comments and sharing new insights e.g. with the documentation of today as a starting point; one from the design bureaus is asking what is expected by them – how many hours to spent, etc?; further how to pos-sibly do and engage in the pilot project (about waste handling and recycling), etc.
Lastly, some more practical issues are raised by the project manager (Steering group, coming workshop dates, an open website or blog, etc.) By four o’clock the event is officially ending:
Project manager: “There are a lot of things to think about (...) Thank you all for coming...” (short clapping).
Co-design project XLab (Appendix 04)
Overall event focuses Relationships between experiments, program and collaboration in design research
Time & Year 22. Nov. 2006 10:00 - 17:00
Participants at events XLab core team (four co-design researchers including me) and three newly started or coming PhD scholars (one in ceramics, one in textile design &
participation and one in interaction design and media) Timing in Project Month 11 out of 13 (additional financing for publishing > 2011) Location House at the Royal School of Architecture / Copenhagen / Denmark Event organizers Especially one other XLab core-team person and I
My Roles Member of XLab core team. co-organizer before event, main procedure and time keeper at event, still image documentation, co-creater of log after event
Ways of documentation Video camera, still image cameras, personal notebook, used tangible materi-als and documents were kept, log and DVD made the day after the event