Ideation
Following lunch and visit and talk with Wynton Marsalis, the teams reconvened, reviewed what had been accomplished during the morning, and moved on to ideating. This phase of the day was focused on generating ideas for answering each team’s central question.
Brainwriting
During this phase, each team member was given a sheet of 3 post-its across the top, where they were asked to think up 3 ideas for answering the table’s central question. Then the sheet was passed two times, and each successive team member added 3 more ideas. This led to 9 ideas per sheet, ideally 54 ideas per table. The post-its were added to a blank board in “idea clusters” by the facilitator.
Sensemaking
Clustering helps us see key emergent themes of value. Colliding ideas gets to the heart of collaboration: together we can create concepts that none of us could conceive alone. Go team!
Ideas at table 5 circulated around tech, funding models, artist empowerment and political issues. The bulk of the clusters found their way into political issues and tech, with a good portion of ideas in artist empowerment.
Affinity Mapping
In Affinity Mapping, teams have the opportunity to cluster and name clusters, or collide and combine ideas. The goal of Clsuters is to recognize emergent themes, and the goal of these colliding ideas is the heart of collaboration: realizing that together we can create concepts that none of us alone could conceive. Team! Table 5’s merged ideas included:
- “Harness tech for new solutions.”
- “Redefine what a creative space is, then activate it.”
- “Identify social and political issues.”
- “Design a novel funding model.”
Dot Voting
This sharing was then Dot Voted by all table participants (each participant was given 3 dots to use to vote wherever they favored an idea), resulting in the following focus statements to take forward:
- How do we reinvent arts funding models?
- How can we reimagine what constitutes creative spaces?
- How do we leverage political and governmental sources to pay for everything?
