As a group, the Masters in Design Innovation Students at Northumbria University work on live projects, using design thinking to complete a wide range of briefs, with a focus this semester on responsible innovation. The students are experienced in running small group workshops, such as Creative Fuse North East’s ‘Get Ready to Innovate’ programme, working with small businesses to explore their opportunities and realise how to achieve them.

This workshop will explore:

- Ideating around what the future might look like (based on stimulus/resources provided)

- Recognising the problems that these idealistic futures may accidentally create

- Creating a concept that would solve the issue and mapping it out through a series of service design methods.

Throughout the workshop the group will demonstrate their way of working, explaining how design thinking can be applied in day to day working. Participants will be helped to develop their own creative expression, as well as gaining awareness of how design methods could be used to solve problems they may experience. The tools and methods used in the workshop are designed to be easily replicable in your own business or creative practice.

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Facilitated by:

- Jisun Lee
- Leila Hogarth
- Cameron Marshall
- Anthonia Carter
- Chloe Maclellan
Masters in Design Innovation students, Northumbria University

What does the future look like? Introducing design methods to think about the world