Universität Wien

180181 KU Innovation Lab: from idea to prototype (2023S)

(summer course)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie
Continuous assessment of course work

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes


Dates, places, times & contents:

Do 9.3.2023 | 9.00-13.00 | HS 2i (NIG, Universitäststrasse 7, 2nd floor) | https://goo.gl/maps/zexCfcuDbJJtQjmz7
First meeting & introductory session & topic selection
- Preliminary discussion, overview and introduction
- Presentation of (future) topics/fields
- Discussion and selection of (future) topics
- Formation of innovation teams (= ITs) (on (future) topics)
- Defining the research strategy

-> for the remaining dates see German version


Information

Aims, contents and method of the course


Notes & further information
* This course can only be completed in combination with the lecture "Innovation, Cognition and Knowledge Generation". If you take this course without VO, you will lack the theoretical basics and the understanding for your project work.
* Important: You must register for this course via https://uspace.univie.ac.at/!
* By registering for this course, you agree that the automated plagiarism check software Turnitin will check all written parts you have submitted in Moodle.
* For more information see: http://www.univie.ac.at/knowledge/peschl


Objectives, content and methods of the course
In this course, the theoretical content developed in the lecture "Innovation, Cognition and Knowledge Generation" is applied in the practical development of a concrete innovation project on selected future topics. Examples of selected future topics:
- The future of work, the workplace and automation
- The future of university/education
- The future of mobility
- The future of communication
- The future of the economy
- The future of newspaper/publishing
- The future of the city/urbanity
- The future of money/payment
- The future of the customer
- Etc.

This happens in the format of an innovation lab, in which an innovation prototype is developed in different workshop settings; The innovation process follows the approach of emergent innovation ("Learning from the future as it emerges" | Theory-U) and extends from brainstorming, research and observation processes, identification of future potential, prototyping and selected methods of design thinking to development and presentation of a first prototype.

In this course, state-of-the-art innovation and knowledge generation concepts and technologies are practically applied in concrete settings (e.g. explicitly making implicit assumptions, understanding perception and thought patterns, theory-u/presencing, various modes of profound and qualitative/ ethnographic observation, interviews, deep knowing, exploring potential, prototyping, etc.).

Students work (individually and in innovation teams) autonomously under the guidance of the course leader along a predefined innovation process on an innovation project; In this way they learn the (theoretical [VO] and) practical skills and mindsets to carry out their own future-driven innovation project. The course leader accompanies the students and innovation teams as a coach/facilitator through this innovation process.

This course offers sufficient space for reflection and discussion of the students' questions and projects.

Target groups: This course is open to students of all majors; it is interdisciplinary and is particularly aimed at students whose future field of work is in knowledge- and innovation-intensive fields/areas.

Assessment and permitted materials

See goals & content or minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

- Successful registration and admission to this course
- Your attendance at the first course session (otherwise you will lose your place on that course if there is a waiting list)
- Active participation in the innovation project in the innovation team you have chosen for the chosen innovation topic
- Active participation in research, in the development and presentation of the innovation project and in documentation/reflection
- Timely submission of the required documents by the specified deadlines (see Moodle)
- Your attendance at > 80% of all units (if you are unable to attend a unit, please be sure to inform the course instructor and the colleagues of your innovation team in good time before the respective unit)

Evaluation criteria:
20%| Presentation of the research (+ documentation)
Upload the documentation of the research phase via Moodle (deadline and further information see Moodle)
The depth and scientific nature of the research insights and their presentation are evaluated.

60%| Final presentation of the innovation project/prototypes
Originality and plausibility (in terms of connectivity and sustainability [10-15 years]) are evaluated for the project idea and prototype.
During the presentation, the factual and situation-appropriate representation is evaluated: originality, plausibility, scientific foundation/argument, appropriateness, dramaturgy, the creative dimension (visual concept, use of media, consistency, "look and feel"). A project presentation is expected, not a pitch.

20%| Documentation and reflection
The project presentation and its design quality are evaluated. In addition, the reflection of the entire innovation process is included in the evaluation. The documentation must be submitted by the innovation team as a PDF document by the specified deadline (see Moodle) at the latest (one document for the entire innovation team).
Upload documentation and course reflection via Moodle (deadline and further information see Moodle)

The points are always awarded for an entire innovation team.

%/points | grade
93-100 | sehr gut (1)
81-92 | gut (2)
71-80 | befriedigend (3)
61-70 | genügend (4)
0-60 | nicht genügend (5)

Important note: If you *not* decide to participate in the seminar despite registering, please inform the course instructor immediately and cancel your registration on u:space by March 31! Otherwise you will receive a negative grade.

Examination topics

See goals & content or minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Reading list

Literatur Auswahl:

Literatur aus der Praxis:
Brown, T. (2008). Design Thinking. Harvard Business Review 86(6), 84–93.
Buchenau, M. and J.F. Suri (2000). Experience prototyping. In (Ed.), Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques, pp. 424–433. New York: ACM Press.
Houde, S. and C. Hill (1997). What do prototypes prototype? (second ed.). In M. Helander, T. Landauer, and P. Prabhu (Eds.), Handbook of human-computer interaction, pp. 367–381. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Jaworski, J., A. Kahane, and C.O. Scharmer (2004). The presence workbook. Cambridge, MA: Society for Organizational Learning (SoL).
Kelley, T. (2004). The art of innovation. Lessons in creativity from IDEO, America's leading design firm. London: Profile Books.
Laurel, B. (Ed.) (2003). Design research. Methods and perspectives. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Moggridge, B., J. Fulton Suri, and D. Bray (2007). People and prototypes. In B. Moggridge (Ed.), Designing interactions, pp. 641–735. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Peschl, M.F., G. Bottaro, M Hartner-Tiefenthaler, and K. Rötzer (2014). Learning how to innovate as a socio-epistemological process of co-creation. Towards a constructivist teaching strategy for innovation. Constructivist Foundations 9(3), 421–433.
Schön, D.A. (1992). Designing as reflective conversation with the materials of a design situation. Research in Engineering Design 3(3).
Truong, K.N., G.R. Hayes, and G.D. Abowd (2006). Storyboarding: an empirical determination of best practices and effective guidelines. In (Ed.), Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems, pp. 12–21. New York: ACM.
Yu, F., M. Pasinelli, and A. Brem (2018). Prototyping in theory and in practice. A study of the similarities and differences between engineers and designers. Creativity and Innovation Management 27(2), 121-132.

d.school Reading List:
https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources/dschool-reading-list
https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources

IDEO:
https://www.ideo.com/eu
https://www.ideo.com/tools

Theoretische Hintergründe:
Dodgson, M. and D. Gann (2010). Innovation. A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hennessey, B.A. and T.M. Amabile (2010). Creativity. Annual Review of Psychology 61, 569–598.
Kauffman, S.A. (2014). Prolegomenon to patterns in evolution. BioSystems 123(2014), 3–8.
Krippendorff, K. (2006). The semantic turn. A new foundation for design. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor and Francis CRC Press.
Krippendorff, K. (2011). Principles of design and a trajectory of artificiality. Journal of Product Innovation Management 28(3), 411–418.
Peschl, M.F. and T. Fundneider (2012). Spaces enabling game-changing and sustaining innovations: Why space matters for knowledge creation and innovation. Journal of Organisational Transformation and Social Change (OTSC) 9(1), 41–61.
Peschl, M.F., T. Fundneider, and A. Kulick (2015). On the limitations of classical approaches to innovation. From predicting the future to enabling "thinking from the future as it emerges". In Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development (Ed.), Designing the Future: Economic, Societal and Political Dimensions of Innovation, pp. 454–475. Wien: Echomedia.
Peschl, M.F. (2019). Design and innovation as co‐creating and co‐becoming with the future. Design Management Journal 14(1), 4–14.
Poli, R. (2011). Steps toward an explicit ontology of the future. Journal of Future Studies 16(1), 67–78.
Scharmer, C.O. (2016). Theory U. Leading from the future as it emerges. The social technology of presencing (second ed.). San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Tsoukas, H. and R. Chia (2002). On organizational becoming: Rethinking organizational change. Organization Science 13(5), 567–582.
Tsoukas, H. (2005). Complex knowledge. Studies in organizational epistemology. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.in organizational epistemology. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

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