Creativity in Collaborative Design

Abstract

With this half-day workshop we will offer a venue to colleagues in Arts and Humanities, designers and computer scientists at large for sharing their experiences about raising creativity levels when running collaborative design sessions. We will target researchers interested in collaborative design involving different types of users including adults, children, teenagers and senior citizens, as much as truly intergenerational experiences. We will hear about the challenges they face in terms of keeping participants engaged and stimulate their individual and social creativity. We will aim at discussing the practicalities of setting up a collaborative design study that are so crucial to its success but rarely reported in literature. There will also be time for exploring more theoretical issues such as when a stimulus is genuinely thought provoking and when instead it becomes overpowering. We will debate on how to measure creativity in this setting and whether it is possible to relate and attribute it to specific activities and roles played by participants.