Our Process
Our Workshop was founded by Heath Nash (an artist, designer and design thinker/systems thinker) in late 2016.
The process he followed for many years is one of trial and error, and making lots and lots of mistakes. This is almost a process of evolution, where the mistakes are often the most exciting part.
Since the start, this has been the process he has tried to nourish at Our Workshop. Added to this, at Our Workshop, there is the element of many voices and many hands being part of the development of ideas and designs/concepts.
It’s very exciting but it takes much longer to co-create than to be a lone genius or a didactic leader.
Traditional design thinking is an iterative process starting with a trigger or a question followed by very wide research.
Then a moment of convergence or reflection to move into a narrower but still divergent, more focussed research which crystallizes the broad research. Then, using both the wide and narrow research a whole lot of models (drawings, simple physical models, thought models) are quickly produced.
Another moment of reflection upon these initial models leads to a final stage of quick prototyping; and importantly testing the prototypes with an audience.
The cycle is then repeated until a good solution is eventually reached.
In a way we are using this model to build the organisation itself.
As a group. We’ve been through many iterations of collaboratively making a membership agreement for example, and after three years together we’re still not there!