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Design Idea

Guide to collective brainstorming workshops:
General tips:

  • Work in your creative teams
  • Decide what you’re aiming for as a group. What’s the main topic? What do you want to achieve from this workshop?
  • Allow everyone to contribute, record all answers.
  • There are no wrong ideas here – free your mind and let the ideas flow…
  • Remember that ideas which seem crazy at first often turn out to be brilliant!
  • The more suggestions, the better chance of a solution.
  • Find a comfortable space or arrange the classroom so that each group has some space
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Sligo Grammar TY students discuss their ideas in comfortable surroundings!

Choose a team recorder to write down all the ideas during the session as a mind map/bubble diagram:
Tips for mind map/bubble diagram:

  • Start by writing down the main topic in the centre, keep it simple.
  • Be concise, use one word or short phrases.
  • Keep branching off the main topic. Try and show how the group’s ideas are developing.

Materials needed:

  • Pencil/Pen
  • Markers/crayons/coloured pencils
  • Paper
  • Or Black/Whiteboard chalk/pens
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Mind map from idea workshop (Dundalk Grammar & Idir)
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Blackboard Brainstorm

What happens next?
When finished, study and discuss the various connections and developments between the central topic and ideas. Which are your team’s favourite ideas? Which would you most like to continue with?
When you have agreed an idea for your design proposal with your team, discuss these main points and make notes your design journal:

  • What is it?
  • Who is it for?
  • What happens there?
About: Idea Workshop

Now its time to get the ideas flowing for your group’s design project…

An Idea Workshop is a relaxed and informal group workshop to generate ideas for a project. It provides the opportunity for group members to openly come up with ideas and suggestions which initially may seem a little crazy. This process allows for free thinking and open communication which are important aspects of any collaborative creative project.

Idea Workshop: Dundalk Grammar TY students and Idir Architecture

Idea Workshop: Dundalk Grammar TY students and Idir Architecture

Mind map/bubble diagram:

  • A bubble diagram is a good way to support and record your Idea Workshop. It is a visual exploration of the conclusions generated from your discussion.
How To: Idea Workshop

Guide to collective brainstorming workshops:

General tips:

  • Work in your creative teams
  • Decide what you’re aiming for as a group. What’s the main topic? What do you want to achieve from this workshop?
  • Allow everyone to contribute, record all answers.
  • There are no wrong ideas here – free your mind and let the ideas flow…
  • Remember that ideas which seem crazy at first often turn out to be brilliant!
  • The more suggestions, the better chance of a solution.
  • Find a comfortable space or arrange the classroom so that each group has some space
sligoIdea

Sligo Grammar TY students discuss their ideas in comfortable surroundings!

Choose a team recorder to write down all the ideas during the session as a mind map/bubble diagram:

Tips for mind map/bubble diagram:

  • Start by writing down the main topic in the centre, keep it simple.
  • Be concise, use one word or short phrases.
  • Keep branching off the main topic. Try and show how the group’s ideas are developing.

Materials needed:

  • Pencil/Pen
  • Markers/crayons/coloured pencils
  • Paper
  • Or Black/Whiteboard chalk/pens

 

B7_brainstormdiagram2

Mind map from idea workshop (Dundalk Grammar & Idir)

NEWbrainstormSM

Blackboard Brainstorm

What happens next?

When finished, study and discuss the various connections and developments between the central topic and ideas. Which are your team’s favourite ideas? Which would you most like to continue with?
When you have agreed an idea for your design proposal with your team, discuss these main points and make notes your design journal:

  • What is it?
  • Who is it for?
  • What happens there?