Innovation Salon
What I Did
I designed and facilitated a creative full-day workshop to foster collaboration between university researchers and utility professionals in Michigan’s drinking water industry and help find opportunities for innovation.
Role: Lead Designer + Facilitator
Teammates
Ann Verhey-Henke, Strategic Director of C-SED
Stakeholders
Toolkit
Brainstorming
Sketches
Storyboarding
Ground rules
Active listening
Think-pair-share
Multi-voting
Liberating Structures
Affinity mapping
Participatory design
Multipartial facilitation
The Process
Clarify the Goal
We want participants to understand overarching trends in the drinking water industry, identify opportunities for innovation, and create partnerships with each other to take on these opportunities.
Understand the Situation
Researchers and utility professionals are often siloed in their work, where research isn’t always tied to practice.
Bridge the Gap
Create and facilitate activities for participants to reflect on good partnerships, share and find overlapping trends, identify areas where innovation can be a shared pursuit, and connect and ideate on how that innovation can happen moving forward.
How I Did It
Click through the gallery to read more about each step of my process.
