Design thinking x space innovation
Start Date
26-3-2021 12:00 PM
End Date
26-3-2021 12:15 PM
Description
Design thinking x space innovation explores how a bespoke design thinking process can effectively represent innovation culture in space technology organisations. As an industry of the future with enormous potential for growth and a vast area for new inventions and exploration, space inspires all generations all the time. With the Space Sector Deal of the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy the ‘new space age’ has taken off (Satellite Applications Catapult, 2018) and productivity is increased where space collaborates across sectors (Space Growth Partnership, 2018). Five projects conducted for this research explore how visual design and creative techniques can contribute to growth and prosperity, fostering impact in the region, fuelling the imagination of prospective audiences, communicating new ideas to a world that constantly adapts and adjusts itself.
Design is increasingly recognised as a driver for user-centred innovation (The European Design Leadership Board, 2012) and organisations are advancing by embedding design into their innovation processes (Bason, 2015). The hybrid character, that is the combination of future technologies and creative design, serves as a pioneering instrument and concurrently as a consistent quality asset. Design can enhance productivity and visually communicate future technology (Author’s Cohort, 2018).
By using a tailored design thinking model, this research explores the creation and development of brands to communicate innovation in the field of satellite and space technologies. It examines the potential that collaboration has across disciplines, the positive effect of creativity in the space industry and the increased productivity when non-designers engage in design thinking.
Recommended Citation
Adler, J., Na, J. H., & Evans, M. (2021, March). Design thinking x space innovation. Presented at the Postgraduate Conference on Interdisciplinary Learning: Re-Imagining Postgraduate Studies in the 21st Century and Beyond. Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Design thinking x space innovation
Design thinking x space innovation explores how a bespoke design thinking process can effectively represent innovation culture in space technology organisations. As an industry of the future with enormous potential for growth and a vast area for new inventions and exploration, space inspires all generations all the time. With the Space Sector Deal of the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy the ‘new space age’ has taken off (Satellite Applications Catapult, 2018) and productivity is increased where space collaborates across sectors (Space Growth Partnership, 2018). Five projects conducted for this research explore how visual design and creative techniques can contribute to growth and prosperity, fostering impact in the region, fuelling the imagination of prospective audiences, communicating new ideas to a world that constantly adapts and adjusts itself.
Design is increasingly recognised as a driver for user-centred innovation (The European Design Leadership Board, 2012) and organisations are advancing by embedding design into their innovation processes (Bason, 2015). The hybrid character, that is the combination of future technologies and creative design, serves as a pioneering instrument and concurrently as a consistent quality asset. Design can enhance productivity and visually communicate future technology (Author’s Cohort, 2018).
By using a tailored design thinking model, this research explores the creation and development of brands to communicate innovation in the field of satellite and space technologies. It examines the potential that collaboration has across disciplines, the positive effect of creativity in the space industry and the increased productivity when non-designers engage in design thinking.