Everyday Experience as Stimuli for Technology Enhanced Creativity Workshops

摘要

Creativity in groups has to deal with the following dilemma: on the one hand, creativity needs the opportunity for retreat where people can focus on the challenge they wish to meet, intensively communicate without being distracted by business driven interruption, and also experience a flow. On the other hand, everyday life and its problems represent a source of inspirational data which helps to generate new ideas, and a set of cases which challenge the appropriateness of new ideas. To overcome this dilemma we have developed a workshop concept which allows the participants to exclusively focus on a problem but which also introduces aspects of everyday experiences and additional electronically- mediated information. This workshop has specifically been conceived to support an ideation process where it is important torndevelop as many good ideas as possible. In our case, ideas are needed about how elderly people can be supported to live their own life for as long as possible in their own home. All kinds of support had to be taken into account such as commercial services, help from neighbors or care- taking by relatives. This type of workshop covers a series of brain-storming rounds which are carried out by the participants and are triggered by material and activities which represent the relevant parts of the everyday life outside the workshop - in our case the everyday life of elderly people and those persons who try to take care of them.