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Finding and Implementing Patterns for Creative Spaces

Authors:
Christian Kohls

Keywords: design patterns; innovation; creative space

Abstract:
Ideation and design thinking are important skills that should be acquired in higher education to prepare students for modern works requirements. We have implemented several workspaces at our university that foster creative work by providing tools, materials and an inspiring atmosphere. To make the spaces fit to the goals of creative thinking we have identified good practices as design patterns. The patterns are based on existing solutions and have led and justified our design decisions. In this article we will discuss the benefits of the pattern approach to find meaningful solutions. The mining process will be outlined and some of the resulting patterns are presented. Finally, we will reflect how the patterns have helped us to achieve our goals. The patterns can be used by other universities and companies to create similar spaces as each pattern describes the solution in a generative way.

Pages: 12 to 17

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: February 18, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3557

ISBN: 978-1-61208-612-5

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from February 18, 2018 to February 22, 2018