The Good Place Innovators Fellows, Farshad, Laura and Lekhana, met as a group for the first time to discuss the components of the project.  Together we started to draft a plan for the next six months of the project and came up with a list of questions and initial ideas.  We met in our own Design Studio Space in the new West Pavilion in Lancaster University Management School, where we were delighted to be greeted by a variety of creative materials and stationary, including LEGO, pipe cleaners, sticky notes and a large roll of paper.  We will be using these materials to generate and develop lots of ideas to implement as part of the Design Thinking Lab and City Innovation student learning resources, bringing together an exciting blend of knowledge in:

• Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management
• International Business and Strategy
• Design methods, Co-design and Social innovation

We have shared some reflections from our meeting for the DLAB and City Innovation:

Design Thinking Lab, DLAB:

We considered how to facilitate DLAB to the audience, who our possible target audience would be.  We looked into the various questions we had regarding the tasks at hand:

What do we name ourselves? Lancaster Explorer? Good Innovators city? 

The task lined up for next week’s upcoming meeting is to consider possible improvements to make the existing Design Thinking Lab more interactive and fun! This should include new videos, interacting with fellow students during activities and coming up with more stories to share with our city.

City Innovation:

We had the chance to delve into the details of the City Innovation project. There will be an event at Lancaster University on the 16th of March with local businesses and students, for which we are looking forward to listening to the challenges facing businesses and viewing students are active citizens in the city. We will discuss more challenges and try to come up with the most appropriate solutions. We believe that this team is going to create something special for the university, as well as the city of Lancaster.  There are several uncertainties, but it will be fine for sure!