Towards creativity stimulating design intervention for multidisciplinary innovation teams
Author(s)
Valk, Sander
Mougenot, Celine
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
The aim of our research is to stimulate cross disciplinary design collaboration to improve innovation processes in product and service design domain. We focus on the intersection of biotechnology and design as this field poses great challenges and opportunities for innovation, and it has received little attention in light of technological advancements of digital goods over the past decades. Experimental studies in the area expose challenging interactions, rising from lack of common vocabulary and preconceptions. Organisational management studies suggest that creativity is a prerequisite for innovation in group processes. As such, we are interested in enhancing collective creativity. Numerous studies investigate external creativity triggers, however only on individual level. Our review suggests that external triggers can be effective when the task is problem solving or styling, but ambiguous goals like innovation require stimulation of intrinsic triggers, such as group incidental learning and tacit knowledge. To explain this, we propose a hypothetical innovation approach, that draws attention to cognitive stimulation methods leading to creativity in multidisciplinary teams.
Date Issued
2019-07-26
Date Acceptance
2019-03-06
Citation
Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design, 2019, 1 (1), pp.239-248
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Start Page
239
End Page
248
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design
Volume
1
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2019. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work.
Source
International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 2019)
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2019-08-05
Finish Date
2019-08-08
Coverage Spatial
Delft, The Netherlands
Date Publish Online
2019-07-26