What the DesignShop event has allowed these organizations to do has been to solve their most pressing problems. An experience of a very different way of working, the DesignShop event proves its value in the results that it produces. For a DesignShop event, all of the key stakeholders, decision makers and interested parties are brought together so that the decisions that need to be made can be made. During the event, participants rigorously explore their current conditions and their visions of the future , co-design multiple solutions, assess the merits of their different solutions, and decide which solution shall be implemented and how the implementation will proceed. A large group brings diversity of opinion, knowledge, experience and vantage point, enabling the DesignShop process to release their dynamic group genius.
Participants build models of emerging social and economic trends.
They establish a common language for the group, identifying terms of art, uncovering assumptions, and discovering the unexpected. A context emerges for the area of focus. Judgment and argument are withheld during this time so that ideas can flow freely. Wise elimination assumes that rich, dynamic, timely options have been explored. The variety of ideas created by thirty, sixty or ninety people multi-tasking allows the participants to design from many different vantage points simultaneously.