The session was kicked off with the selected 24 participants and an intro to design thinking and workshop immersion. The teams were each assigned a theme (Garbage Crisis, Public Transport, Unemployment, Syrian Refugees) that they will be working on for the next 5 weeks and creating a solution for.
The teams then spread out throughout the creative venue and were asked to draw their timelines as an icebreaker and team building exercise. Teams were then asked to silently “idea storm,” meaning they had 3 minutes to come up with 30+ ideas about problems regarding their theme. Each idea was written on a post it. They then mind mapped their ideas into categories and had to vote on one category to work on moving forward.
Finally they had to come up with a “How Might We” question to end the sessions. In other words, they framed their challenge using those three key words to best design creative solutions.
