Cancelled - WS6: InnovAction - The Game Is There To Play. A game that can help you brainstorm.
Location: TBA
InnovAction - The Game Is There To Play.
Subtitle: A game that can help you brainstorm on innovation considering users, constraints and sustainable development goals.
Trainers: Heidi Van Herbruggen, Camille Bisson and Michele Barbier
Date: Tuesday 23rd April 2023 (12:45 -15:45)
Location: University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
Target audience: Impact managers, technology transfer officers, or whoever wants to try this game
Content
Serious games can be very helpful and nice tools to get people to think about a topic. We have been experimenting this short and easy game with PhD students and researchers at different occasions and are happy to share the experience.
It all started when we looked for a way to make researchers think about potential users and application domains for their research outcomes. With the help of the Fablab manager from the local University Pedagogy and ICT Service (SUPTICE), we formalized this game mainly consisting of 5 different types of cards.
We will introduce the game and it’s possibilities, but most of all this session is planned as an interactive session, where maximum 10 groups of 6 people experiment the game. Imagination and fun will be the ingredients with the goal to allow participants to make the game their own: adapt it to their needs, bring it home and play.
Learning outcomes:
By the workshop's end, participants will:
- Gain familiarity with a notable serious game example and explore its diverse applications.
- Immerse themselves in the gaming experience, extracting practical insights.
- Acquire proficiency in adapting a versatile tool to diverse professional contexts.
- In summary, participants will leave with practical skills, a nuanced understanding of serious gaming applications, and the ability to seamlessly integrate a valuable tool into their professional toolkit
Profiles of the Trainers:
Heidi Van Herbruggen is in charge of european partnerships at the Office of Partnerships & Technology Transfer of the Inria research center in Rennes since 2017. She supports researchers in their european project proposals. After an initial training as a Product Developer in Antwerp, Belgium, and a year of cultural management at the University of Aix-en-Provence, she worked as a financial and administratif officer in a theatre, an associative publisher and an artists’ collective. She joined Inria in 2008 as european contract manager.
Camille Bisson has a master’s degree in Product Design from LAAB in Rennes, as well as a master’s degree in Innovation Management from Arts et Métiers ParisTech. She worked as a design and innovation consultant for a cabinetmaker’s workshop, and then for a consulting agency in the railway industry. She then turned to the field of fablabs, where she put’s her skills in design, creativity and prototyping at the service of education. She is currently in charge of the Teaching Lab, a third place at the University of Rennes.
Michele Barbier obtained her PhD in life sciences at the Sorbonne University. She joined Inria in 2021 as European Project Manager where she manages two projects on the digital twin of the heart: SimCardioTest (Horizon Europe) and inEurHeart (EIT Health). She is also developing the communication strategy for both projects and initiated the InnovaHeart workshop series. Michele has over 20 years' experience managing international marine science projects in France and Monaco, after several post-docs in the USA and Tahiti. She is also an ethics expert for the European Commission.
