Icebreaking at BI Nydalen Campus, Oslo. (Photo: Birgit Jevnaker).
Day One in the new workshop-based collaboration between BI Norwegian School of Management and AHO, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
New Master collaboration. This is a collaboration on the master of science level, between two courses from two higher education schools and the respective students. The two courses are, at AHO, called Design Management (currently led by Rachel Troye), and at BI, Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity (led by me, Birgit Helene Jevnaker).
It is the two of us as teachers that have organized this particular collaboration - and we share responsibility for 3 joint sessions that are workshops. This new collaboration is following in the wake of some previous efforts such as BI's joint learning initiative called MOD, Management of Design, with KHiO (see other postings on this blog). We also build on previous course developments for BI innovation students as well as courses previously for the Industrial Design education in Oslo in design management/market-strategic design (I was involved in this course development and teaching for industrial design students for about a decade, on a part-time "hobby" basis). Another recent learning lesson for us was last year´s cocreation-oriented collaboration between two BI and AHO courses and the respective innovation and design students. It was developed by myself and Birgitta Cappelen, in collaboration with Simon Clatworthy. It was probed as a new experimental Management of Innovation/Service design collaboration between BI and AHO and first run in the autumn 2009 (see press coverage elsewhere, e.g., in Ukeavisen Ledelse).
SUPERTEAM. In this new BI + AHO master collaboration, 18 three-persons BI student groups shall be collaborating with 19 design and architecture students in 9 superteams through 3 workshops and in the last one, they shall present a joint proposal for a panel/jury of Dragons (cf. Dragons' Den).
ICEBREAKING. Today, the 21 Sept 2010 we had the first Icebreaking and kick-off meeting between the respective student groups. The first task was to prepare lunch for one's superteam. This was solved in many different ways - from pai and salad nicely served to another team with double portions of bread and juice but not any toppings... but all teams finally got something to eat and I think most appreciated it as a good way to start this BI + AHO collaboration!
