Creative IDEAS

Innovative Mechanisms for Knowledge Sharing

The Creative IDEAS project is dedicated to impact generation through the design of innovative and highly interactive approaches, processes and tools for knowledge sharing.

Our approach to knowledge sharing is characterised by a participatory, co-creational understanding of KE research. Here academics and KE professionals use their expertise to design and provide a flexible structure and safe environment in which participant experts feel enabled to share relevant and create new knowledge across organisational boundaries.

To date we have supported over 100 small and large companies and public organisations in collaboration for innovation.  Activities focus on the facilitation of interactions across organisational boundaries and sectors with the aim to raise awareness about differences in organisational cultures and processes and how they might affect innovation and change processes.

The project is part of the fourth round of the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF 4).

Project Team

CruickshankCruickshank Leon Cruickshank Open Design and Innovation, User Centred and User-Led Design, Interactive Design, Technology and Society, Design Methodology, Design Theory and Philosophy
HerfurthHerfurth Lorenz Herfurth Innovation, Knowledge Exchange, Design Research, Design Management for Sustainability, Design Thinking
CarrCarr Valerie Carr Design for health and wellbeing, therapeutic environments, workplace design, post occupancy evaluation, community engagement, design for social innovation, codesign
CooperCooper Rachel Cooper Design Management, Design Policy, Design Thinking, Urban Sustainability, Socially Responsible Design, Design Against Crime, Design & Manufacture

Updates

Innovation vs. Design

Innovation vs. Design

There are many people, even colleagues who talk about innovation without any relationship to design at all (literary examples of this include the 600 page Oxford Handbook of Innovation and the 500 page Diffusion of Innovation) in this world innovation is a function of business activity.

There...Read full update

Workshop Series: Next Generation Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Workshop Series: Next Generation Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Embedding new sustainability thinking into day-to-day activities of civil engineering can result in substantial social, economic and environmental benefits for all stakeholders, but, to date, sustainability in consulting engineering is still more of a reactive activity than a proactive one. Through...Read full update

Designing Spaces for Creative Collaboration and Co-Design

Event2 years, 1 month and 18 days ago
Designing Spaces for Creative Collaboration and Co-Design

4th of April 2011, Storey Creative Industries Centre

The Designing Spaces for Creative Collaboration and Co-design workshop brought together a multidisciplinary group of designers, designer makers and craftspeople to spend a half day within the shell of the 3rd floor ‘art school’...Read full update

The Future of TV

Event2 years, 1 month and 25 days ago
The Future of TV

28th of March 2011, Imagination Lancaster

The Future of TV-workshop brought together experts from BBC’s R&D (Research and Development) section and students from the doctoral programme HighWire at Lancaster University

Together participants generated visions beyond today’s use...Read full update

Improving Collaboration Between the BBC and SMEs

Event2 years, 2 months and 14 days ago
Improving Collaboration Between the BBC and SMEs

10th of March 2011, The Lowry, Manchester

Using a highly interactive and engaging process that built on the participating parties’ own experience with development processes and collaboration, this session's goal was the identification of challenges and opportunities for a smooth...Read full update