Innovations are realised through design, and some of the most useful tools in the designer's toolbox are the representations that are used to move from a vague idea, to a concept, and then to a realised product, service or system. This free course, Innovation through representation, explores what innovation is and how representations are used to develop and communicate visions of innovation.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 What is innovation?
- 1 What is innovation?
- 1.1 Defining Innovation
- 1.2 Outputs of innovation
- 1.3 Sources of innovation
- 2 Talking about representations
- 2 Talking about representations
- 2.1 Visions of innovation
- 2.2 Using representations
- 3 What are representations for?
- 3 What are representations for?
- 3.1 Representations for communicating
- 3.2 Representations for thinking
- 3.3 Representations for describing
- 3.4 Multiple uses of representations
- 4 Persuading representations
- 4 Persuading representations
- 4.1 Representing visions for people
- 4.2 Representing context with statistics
- 4.3 Representing people in posters
- 4.4 Representing material things of the future
- 4.5 Representations have a purpose
- 5 Supporting innovation
- 5 Supporting innovation
- 6 Conclusion
- 6 Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
