1. Idea-Factory

2. Step 0: individual idea generation (incubation)
Step 1: small group interaction (build on)
Step 2: intervention (widen views)
Step 3: sharing ideas (broadcasting)
Step 4: sense-making (clusters)
Step 5: focus & develop
Step 6: present & vote
Program

3. Step 0: individual idea generation (incubation)
Participants take home the question: “what will the
Internet be used for in 20 years?”
They ponder this question for 7 days individually,
together with the accompanying question: “what do you
use the Internet for today?”

5. Participants are 16 last-year students of Industrial
Design & Engineering (Industrial/IT). Average age: 22.
Activity is part of their Innovation course.
Sample responses:
● Instant shopping: Reconstitution of purchased items on 3D home printers, hologram
shopping centers online with full global catalogues, online fitting and test rooms of items
with augmented reality and tangible holograms where people can try out what they will
buy, showrooms that enter a personal preference database and shows the customer
worldwide offers and discounts on items focused on personal tastes and preferences.
●Communication: augmented reality rooms where people far away from each other can
interact in a personalized environment with tangible virtual objects, neural gadgets where
people can receive instant voicemails or have conversations without the need of an
electronic device, wireless webcams that could life stream exactly what other people is
watching, feeling and hearing to another person far away.
●Business: electronic avatar robots controllable online that people can rent to do
something somewhere else without having to be present, tactile screen tables where
people can interact with files and images at the same time in two different places.

6. Step 1: small group interaction (build on)
“World Café” activity (http://www.theworldcafe.com)
Participants share, clarify and build on each others'
ideas in rapid sessions where teams are shuffled every
5 minutes and a leader makes notes that are presented
once all participants have participated in most teams

8. You may read these guidelines to formulate questions:

9. Step 2: intervention (widen views)
Workshop organiser gives a 10-minute presentation in
order to give some perspective, widen the issues at
hand and complement the World Café's results.
Ideas presented here include: Internet for development,
future of semantic web, intelligent/creative online
agents, future hardware devices, knowledge society...

11. Step 3: sharing ideas (broadcasting)
Participants are given 10 Post-It notes and asked to write
down one idea on each paper and paste it on the wall.
Ideas are prioritised, summarised and shared with
everyone.

13. Step 4: sense-making (clusters)
In groups of 3, participants read and organise the ideas
into clusters, grouping them in topics. Each group has
only a couple of minutes to contribute, all participants
have a go at arranging and re-arranging the ideas.

16. Step 5: focus & develop
Teams are self-organised around the main topics chosen
by the workshop organisers. They work on a concrete
theme, build a set of proposals and prepare a quick pitch
to present to the entire group.

18. Step 6: present & vote
Teams present their results and the rest of the group
provides feedback in three categories: “I like...”, “You
should look into...”, and “I didn't like...”
They do this by writing down their feedback in Post-It
Notes that are pasted on the wall

19. RESULTS
( to come )

20. DISCUSSION
( to come )