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Innovation WorkshopsDesigning speculative futures for today’s challenges
The following work is from a series of innovation workshops that bring together interdisciplinary teams to explore forward-thinking solutions to contemporary challenges. Through collaborative efforts with educational and corporate partners, these workshops aim to unpack complex problems and develop innovative strategies that anticipate future needs.
IDEO CoLAB: Bits + Blocks Lab
In the Bits + Blocks Lab, a nine-week intensive program hosted by IDEO CoLab, students from institutions such as Harvard, MIT, RISD, Wellesley, and Tufts collaborated to explore applications of emerging technologies like blockchain. Working as IDEO employees, six teams developed venture prototypes that reimagined experiences around Bitcoin and blockchain technologies. Our team focused on the intersection of identity and blockchain, developing a new product venture that was subsequently adopted by IDEO for further development within the firm.
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
