Playstorms: Innovation in Playmode

Innovation in playmode

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According to Prof Teresa Amabile of the Harvard Business School: “whatever an individual’s talents… the conditions under which he or she works – can significantly increase or decrease the level of creativity produced.”

The challenge with organisational work today is that it is mostly: serious, stressful, routine, and ultimately draining. This is the exact opposite of the conditions required to encourage individual creativity.


We must shift out of typical work mode into a creative mode.

We call this new mode of coming up with new ideas, Productive Play.

In order to get into this new mode, we require the creation of spaces that are clearly separate from our draining routine. These are less about physical environments and more about creating a new mindspace where individuals can feel free to explore a challenge through playful interaction and be energized to imagine new possibilities.


Workmode and the Playmode of Productive Play are starkly different in the following ways that are relevant to Creativity and Innovation:


• PARTICIPATION – play pulls us in so that we can contribute our voice. • IMAGINATION – play breaks down defenses and opens minds.

Adult play is complex and multi-faced, however productive play delivers two key benefits to innovation:


Play transforms problems into challenges, serious into fun, one right answer into

many possible outcomes. © Invitro Innovation www.invitroinnovation.com

Movement of any sort breaks down our mental defenses.


It promotes mixing fantasy and reality it takes you places you haven’t been before.


In order to get participants into Playmode so they can effectively Playstorm we require three conditions:

Room layout, Décor, F&B, Tools and Facilitation !

Disruptus Game, Innovation Provocation Cards, Prototyping materials such as modelling clay!

Open the mind, problem exploration, challenge definition, ideation, prototyping!


PLAYFUL SPACE More of: Less of:

Using the elements of: Room layout, Décor, F&B, Tools and Facilitation

to move as far away from the day to day routine. © Invitro Innovation www.invitroinnovation.com

PLAY RESOURCES TOOLS TO AID THINKING WITH YOUR HANDS:

- modeling clay to discover meaning - drawing to discover hidden strengths

CREATIVITY GAMES

- Disruptus game – the card game encourages Disruptive thinking - a hacked version of Cards Against Humanity

PROTOTYPING: - Building ideas with recycled materials

INNOVATION CARDS:

- A set of provocations to help challenge assumptions and find new ideas


4) IDEATION 3) CHALLENGE STATEMENT

2) PROBLEM EXPLORATION

Free-wheeling playful

Distilling Empathetic

5)PROTOTYPING

Problem solving

1) OPEN THE MIND

Game activity to unblock creativity

PLAYSTORM PROCESS


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