Saturday, February 6, 2010

Brainstorming session

Hello everybody!
After visiting the Mint of Finland we had a very interesting brainstorming session with the group. It's not too common in Otaniemi to use brainstorming as a learning method but our industrial designer Ari taught us well. We all had to bring 3 or more pictures that inspired us. Pictures were about tecnological innovations or about something we held dear to our hearts. During the brainstorming we circuled the pictures around the table and tried to find new wild ideas about the coin of 2020. I think our brainstorming went wery well. We gathered a huge amount of ideas and it was quite easy to continue developing them.
When you are innovating, it's important to remember to accept all ideas. It was very hard for me at least to not to think about financial restrictions and things like that. Even the silliest ideas are welcome. It's only after the brainstorming, when we start to investigate the possibilities to make a coin from the idea.
We gathered ten of the most interesting ideas together and agreed to find information about them before next thursday. I'm really looking foward on that. It will be exciting to hear what new technologies to make a coin this group will find!

-Mirva

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