Keely Swan, IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth, Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Are you working to solve a pressing social, health or environmental problem and hope to develop a game-changing innovation?
Have you been working on an exciting innovation and are looking for places where it could create positive change?
If so, join us for this workshop series. Over 3 days students, guest experts and workshop leaders will learn from each other by critically exploring case studies, concepts, and tools for effective innovation design such as problem framing, mapping the social and policy context, pitching ideas, building an effective multi-disciplinary team, and learning reflective practice. Throughout we will explore practical skills, as well as fundamental questions such as: When is an innovation needed? What are potential adverse effects of an innovation on stakeholders, institutions and markets? How can we take a participatory problem-solving approach to the innovation process?
The workshops will build on each other; participants are encouraged to attend all three sessions, but participation for one day is welcome. The workshops are open to the MIT community and will be of particular interest to teams preparing for the IDEAS Global Challenge, the Water Innovation and Food & Ag Innovation Prizes, and others working on social entrepreneurship ventures at D-Lab, DUSP, and other engineering depts. The workshop is also open to non-MIT teammates working on these projects.
Register here: http://goo.gl/forms/h9pn6Zx00f
Sponsor(s): Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center
Contact: Keely Swan, W20-549, 617 715-5474, KCSWAN@MIT.EDU
| Jan/20 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-162 |
We can all agree that there are many problems in the world. How do we know what to focus on? And how do we clearly convey the problem to others? In this session, we will explore tools to help us identify and define problems and consider how that framing affects our understanding of the situation. We will explore the importance of a clear problem statement to innovation design and making a successful pitch. Register here.
Keely Swan - IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth - Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
| Jan/21 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-162 |
An innovation may meet or solve a real need, but the context of a particular cultural, market, legal, funding, and policy environment will all influence whether the innovation takes hold. We will work with tools to help us conceptualize these complex scenarios for our own projects and will learn from past teams about how their projects played out in the real world. Register here.
Keely Swan - IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth - Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
| Jan/22 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-162 |
Whose vision and knowledge inform the innovation process? Will the innovation be developed in a lab by a few people and then rolled out? Who do you need on your team to lend a range of perspectives? Can innovation be a collaborative process with the users and beneficiaries that produces effective ideas while empowering people at the same time? We will explore these questions, relevant tools & strategies. Register.
Keely Swan - IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth - Lecturer in Sustainable International Development