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Design Research Society

2018

Innovation

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Design For Profit Or Prosper, Else Skjold, Frederik Larsen Jun 2018

Design For Profit Or Prosper, Else Skjold, Frederik Larsen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Over the past decade, it has become increasingly popular to position design as an excellent tool for companies and organisations to foster innovation and growth. As an adaptable practice design can be applied to serve many ends, and in the field of sustainable transition design has the potential to create new solutions due to its capacity to ‘reframe’ large-scale problems of a ‘wicked’ nature. However, as we will argue in this paper, the innovation and change promoted through design risks becoming merely a vehicle for promoting the values associated with 20th century neoliberal capitalism. We therefore want to question the …


Innovation Development In Norwegian Public Schools. The Relationship Between Innovation, Creativity And Imagination, Jorid Vittersø, Janne Beate Reitan Jun 2018

Innovation Development In Norwegian Public Schools. The Relationship Between Innovation, Creativity And Imagination, Jorid Vittersø, Janne Beate Reitan

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper focuses on current research related to innovation development in the Norwegian public school system and investigates the relationship between innovation, creativity and imagination. Using Vygotsky’s theory of creativity, the paper describes the concept of innovation and explains how it relates to the Norwegian public school system’s creativity education curriculum. The paper explores the importance of hands-on experience and tacit knowledge when developing creativity and innovation. It explores the practice of using assessments in creative subjects and questions whether the current assessment practice allows students to truly develop creativity and innovation skills. This paper argues that although Norwegian public …