Tag: innovation
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How many uses are there for a shoe?
I’ve been spending some time over the new year reflecting on my work, and trying to develop ideas about how I package what I do (which is rather nebulous and difficult to describe). That calls for divergent thinking, amongst other techniques (e.g. needs analysis, prototyping and validation). So I read this blog post, Divergent thinking…
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Reflections on hackdays
I’ve been to a couple of hackdays/weekends recently (Fieldwork Hackday and Good for Nothing / Summer of Love), and have learned a fair bit about how they function. Having worked with large-scale online innovation communities, that play out over several months, I’m particularly interested in how these different approaches compare. What kind of outcomes can…
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Union event: User makers and distributed production
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been helping Duncan Wilson (Arup), and Roland Harwood (100%Open), put together an evening of pitches, inspiration and networking called Union. The theme was “User makers and distributed production”. A subject that’s difficult to encapsulate neatly, but certainly covers areas like: Open source hardware (that can be hacked and…
Andrew Sleigh 