Our fourth session of Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate DELIVER took place on Tuesday 28th May at the Trapdoor @ UCD. This session launched the group into the delivery phase of the collaborative innovation process. 

Louise Allen, CFA Director, welcomed the group to the newly developed ‘black box’ theatre space on the Belfield campus, home of the Creative Futures Academy (CFA) in UCD.

Karl Toomey, NCAD lecturer, shared an overview of the work the students have been working on over the course of the programme. He presented some of the visual communications strategies and prototypes they have developed and considered in relation to textiles and agri-food sectors specifically. 

Brian O’Brien who leads the Build Environment systems team gave a lightning demo of the sector and some innovative ideas in this space. This was followed by a short presentation by sustainable mobility expert, Ciaran Ferrie, who showed the group examples of where successful solutions have been applied in other European jurisdictions as well as some domestic examples of positive and green mobility solutions.

In this session, the group explored the practical impact and value of creative problem solving and design-led ideation across industries. The teams continued with the co-creation of ‘empathy’ and ‘stakeholder’ maps to relate to the actors in their various ‘challenge space’ and flexing their ‘ideation’ muscles by collectively generating creative ideas and solutions.

The mid-morning session saw the groups divided up once more into their various teams – agri-food, textiles, mobility & built environment – to carry out ideation exercises and collaborative activities.

In the afternoon, the group worked once again with Kate Lydon, Chief Design Officer, The Holding Co./ex-IDEO on prototyping and how to transfer the knowledge, skills and processes honed during this programme to the Boardroom.

The day concluded with protype presentations from the group in the Trapdoor performance space. The whole way through the day participants fed back their comments and questions through a series of post-it notes!