The designer as facilitator of multidisciplinary innovation projects

Bettina Minder, Astrid Heidemann Lassen

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Abstract

Designers increasingly facilitate multi-disciplinary innovation projects. The user-centred design approach offers the opportunity to increase idea generation, co-creation and multidisciplinary exchange and convey more flexible and open innov-ation process approaches. However, we have little knowledge about how the designer as facilitator influences these innovation projects. This becomes however more and more important, as more open and networked innovation have become prominent innovation paradigms. This paper explores the contribution that designers bring into multidisciplinary settings. It is based on empirical data from three case studies. It contributes to extant literature on designers as facilitators by identifying the interplay between different levels of creative facilitation as moderating factor for the fulfilment level of the collaboration. We propose to include the balancing of this interplay as additional input of facilitating designers.
Original languageEnglish
JournalThe Design Journal
Volume21
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)789-811
Number of pages23
ISSN1460-6925
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Nov 2018

Keywords

  • designer
  • facilitation
  • idea generation
  • multidisciplinary innovation

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