Eureka

So, we’ve finally settled on a topic we want to tackle.

It all began with sorting our findings into different categories. This gave us a more abstracted overview of the different topics that were brought up so far. Perhaps ironically, sorting the post-its only made us more uncertain. The scope of the project appeared to be extremely broad and unfocused. But we had to move forward. Scroll on down…

Each of the team members chose 5 of the most compelling and encompassing post-its, which we then separated from the rest. Now we had a more concise and manageable collection of topics.

We began to discover the similarities: community, collaborating with neighbors, collective intelligence, integration, biodiversity, responsibility and accomplishment, culture, tangibility, pervasiveness, immunity. These words all pointed towards a grander idea:

Increasing social interaction in urban areas, using pervasive technologies.

The next step will be to identify themes and to formulate insight statements. This should allow for a more careful exploration of the problems involved before we dive into the initial ideation phase.

Stay tuned.