In conjunction with the Kingston University Faculty of Business and Law, Innoversity is researching how students on the MA for Creative Economy programme are using design thinking to create their own businesses. Over 40 students from backgrounds of design, business, technology, music, writing and the social sciences are combining their creative skills with their business skills during an intense 1-year Masters programme. Part of the experience is creating their own business in multidisciplinary teams. Several case studies will be done on these teams and how their roles interact for innovation …

People know that bringing different disciplines together often yields innovative results, but how? This case study explores the relationship between a designer, marketer and materials specialist during a 2 hour session. We observed how each person understood the problem, approached the solution and understood the other’s role. This is the central question of our research and several case studies will be done to better understand this question. Here is the result of this baseline study.
Three participants began the session with a demonstration from a midwife who has been researching the …

D.school has found that by mixing self-declared creatives with people who don’t think of themselves as a creative, that through the design thinking process, they are now more confident in their ability to innovate.

But it takes time for students to trust in the design thinking process, which usually comes after lots of practice and experience in that the methodology works.

Studentship in Psychology – MSc by Research

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
Department of Psychology
Closing Date: 12 noon on 01/09/2009
The School of Social Science is pleased to offer a studentship in the area of Psychology to support a one year, full time MSc by Research. The MSc project will involve observation and analysis of an exciting new project – Innoversity – focusing on the interaction of higher education and industry in the area of design. The studentship covers domestic tuition fees.
The project will be supervised jointly within Psychology and Innoversity at …

Work commences soon on the Physical Hub space at knights park, which will be live in November.
There are a number of layers to the build including the base furniture shown in the image below, equipment and items for use by groups (games, tools, materials) and items to give the space its character, and finally the provision of the audio visual aspects which will allow the simple recording of group activities for the research, both off site and within the Knights park space.
Watch out for update images as the build progresses.