“Ik zoek nog een oplossing voor…”
De 101 ‘Ideeën’ in dit boek, aanbevolen door 101 experts, hebben als doel jouw creativiteit te stimuleren in je persoonlijke zoektocht naar inspiratie, ideeën, inzichten en oplossingen.

Met dit boek:
• word je vindingrijker in je eentje
• los je alledaagse of complexere vraagstukken op
• laat je je creativiteit stromen
• kies je de denktechnieken die bij jou passen
• leer je meer over jouw persoonlijke creativiteit
en innovatievermogen

Creativity is one of the vital 21st century skills. As the subject of a large academic and practitioner community since 1950, there are literally hundreds of books and thousands of techniques on creativity. In this book, this body of knowledge is boiled down for modern scholars and facilitators to one framework called iCPS, integrated Creative Problem Solving.

For the techniques, the book focuses on techniques for groups and details 40 essential ones. This is the main part of the book. The set of 40 covers all the techniques in the field and offers the building blocks to construct group sessions. Guidelines for organizing sessions will help the reader position the building blocks and make the design for a smooth process. The website will offer even more details and practicalities to run magic sessions and courses.

Katrina Heijne is lecturer and researcher at Delft University of Technology specialized in Creative Facilitation and founder of the consultancy firm SeriousCreativity.

Han van der Meer is lecturer emeritus Innovation Management at Delft University of Technology, emeritus professor and chair Innovative Entrepreneurship at Saxion University of Applied Sciences and senior consultant at SeriousCreativity.

Project U_CODE. funded by EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 688873

Different cases of public disagreement in different European countries have shown recently that perusing a thorough planning process is by no means a guarantee for a broad public acceptance of an envisioned urban project. Consequently, the employment of digital media and tools to enable participation of inhabitants in urban planning processes on a massive scale is a promising, but currently not comprehensively analyzed approach. Our research activities are intended to gain an overview on a state of the art of research on communication channels, methods and best practices as well as to identify key challenges and promising strategies and tools to overcome these challenges with specific regards to large numbers of users and digital supported approaches. The latter aspects comprise the investigation of phenomena like participant selection, framing effects and gamified approaches for digital-mediated participatory processes as well as native language processing techniques to examine opinions as well as ideas of relevance from massive public feedback. To examine, we performed literature reviews of several hundred research articles, investigated cases in Germany, France and the Netherlands by interviews and workshops with stakeholders and employed methods of prototyping to conceptualize, develop and assess some promising approaches such as sentiment analysis in detail.

Purpose – The current article reports the New Dutch Makers-project (Havenaar, 2016). The Library The Hague communicated the wish of the integration of a technological laboratory inside the Library Schilderswijk, which has been completed during the process of the project. Design/methodology/approach – We propose an approach of multiple project phases in order to tackle the projects complexity. Each phase has a goal and a different approach to reach this goal. After the four main phases are completed a final evaluation phase crosschecks the goals that have been set at the beginning of the project and assesses whether these goals are met. The project has a research-through-design approach with which the local youth is involved throughout the entire design process in order to create a best as possible fit with the technological laboratory. Originality/value –This methodology puts in evidence that integrating a technological laboratory inside a library provides the local youngsters with a place near-by to learn with, and from, others. The threshold to participate is low since the involvement of the target group throughout the process is high. Not only do the participant learn technological skills with the different machines and techniques which are provided, but the youngsters have developed themselves on social areas as well.

Research on the opportunity recognition stage in the process of entrepreneurships is still in an early stage. This paper is covering the possibility of art as being one of the inspirational sources for entrepreneurs. Once aware of it, an unavoidable observation seems to be: innovative entrepreneurs love art. But is this true? And if it is true what can be the reasons for entrepreneurs to love art? This paper will address these questions by analyzing the data from a project with nine entrepreneurs and nine artists followed by interviews of 14 art-loving entrepreneurs and managers.