Innovationlab event – the art of connections

Today I participated in an Innovation lab event with the speaker Anders Sahl Hansen.

The key learning was the approach to using connections as a design mechanism. First you generalise the problem, then do intuitive research, use the principles of connections and lastly describe the end solutions. If you create a personal connection to your problem you get better solutions! Anders had a lot of nice examples that I will try to find the references for a later time, as well as his resources for inspiration e.g Ask nature.

Sketchnotes from Innovationlab event

Today I was at an event by Innovationlab with a talk by Anette priess Gade about Circular Economy. The event was in Danish but the slides in English, so the sketchnote is in Danglish.

Key takeaways were that we have to do something about our consumption, even in Denmark. Right now, if everyone consumed as much as Denmark, we would be using 3,2 times our planets resources! On a global scale we are using 1,7 of our resources, so circular economy is something all organizations should consider! The Circular Economy System Diagram by the Ellen Macarthur foundation mentioned in the sketchnote can be found here. See the sketchnote from the Design Matters 2017 IDEO workshop here.