Crowd-Share Innovation: Intensive Creative Collaborations

Complex problems cannot be solved around a boardroom table. Crowd-Share Innovation is the emerging technique for introducing mass input into tricky problems in face-to-face creative collaboration workshops. Participants include diverse people from the public, your best team players, and your toughest critics. In order to explore this new innovation terrain, we at the u.lab created 'Groundbreaker' - a series of crowd-share innovation workshops and provocative talks held in July and August 2012 at Object Australian Design Centre in Sydney. U.lab is an interdisciplinary framework for innovation projects at UTS. It creates opportunities for design-led innovation where learning, research and industry engagement are infused. U.lab was established in 2011 and has since operated as an initiative of academics from three faculties at the University of Technology, Sydney.