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Innovation Workshops
Designing Futures
Developing ideas for today’s challenges
The following work is from a set of workshops exploring future ideas across disciplines and industries. The ethos of the work was to unpack the challenges associated with a given prompt, either through an educational or corporate partner, and through multi-disciplinary teams, develop strategies and ideas for innovating on solutions.
IDEO CoLAB: Bits + Blocks Lab
Students applied from a range of Boston-based schools including Harvard, MIT, RISD, Wellesley, and Tufts and six teams were selected. Working as IDEO employees for nine weeks, our teams developed new ventures aimed at building new experiences around the technologies inspired by Bitcoin and Blockchains. After the 9 week intensive program, six venture prototypes emerged, and several of the students and ventures prototypes (including ours) were adopted by IDEO and continued as projects within the firm. Our team looked at Identity + Blockchains and developed a venture around a new product.
Team: Eric Chan, Shuya Gong and Spencer Powers - IDEO Futures Venture Lab
Bayer LifeHub: Hacking Farming
A 3-day prototyping design sprint focused on the future of seed sorting and innovating on new systems for farming. Worked in collaboration with Mike Kerns, a Bayer expert, Frederick Haibach, a material scientist and Aftab Hussain, an engineer, and produced a novel systemic prototype that was selected to be presented to Bayer leadership.
Team: Mike Kerns, Frederick Haibach, and Aftab Hussain - IDEO + Bayer
Bayer LifeHub: Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite
Bayer LifeHub orchestrated a sprint around the challenge of bedbugs. The goal was to develop radical and creative business model ideas surrounding the commercialization of a breakthrough in bed bug detection technology. How might we bring this technology to an existing market of pest management professionals? What is the role of the collection of data on bed bugs infested areas? And what impact might this have on improved health and living standards for the public?
Media Lab Dubai: Smart Communal Spaces
Smart Communal Spaces is a project from the week long design workshop, MIT Media Lab Dubai Workshop 2016. It explores how Mixed Reality (MR) could enhance team communication in shared office spaces. While existing co-working spaces provide the benefits of openness and flexibility, they sacrifice our privacy and personal experience. However, MR enables us to project into our physical reality, visually and sonically reorganizing how bits and atoms exist around us. In the demo video, we tell a story of how human-computer interaction might look like in an office when team communication tools are operated in a spatial context without any streaming device.
Design Lead: Chrisoula Kapelonis, Technology Lead: Poseidon Hai-Chi Ho - IDEO, MIT Media Lab, Wamda, Community Jameel
Students: Rajeev Mylapalli, Yazan Fanous, Lamees Alhashimi, Moza Al Naimi, Esra'a Alsanie, Asalah Aranki
