Het is best spannend om over Artificial Intelligence (Al) te schrijven, omdat de technologie zo snel verandert. En niet alleen de technologie verandert.
Juist door deze ontwikkelingen in Al verandert ook onze kijk op wat creativiteit nou eigenlijk is.@en

“Ik zoek nog een oplossing voor…”
De 101 ‘Ideeën’ in dit boek, aanbevolen door 101 experts, hebben als doel jouw creativiteit te stimuleren in je persoonlijke zoektocht naar inspiratie, ideeën, inzichten en oplossingen.

Met dit boek:
• word je vindingrijker in je eentje
• los je alledaagse of complexere vraagstukken op
• laat je je creativiteit stromen
• kies je de denktechnieken die bij jou passen
• leer je meer over jouw persoonlijke creativiteit
en innovatievermogen@en

We investigate reverging - the phase between the diverging and converging steps in a creative process - in the context of a visual thinking agency. Creative facilitation literature advocates for such a phase, aimed at revisiting and rearranging ideas generated during diverging, to prepare for converging. However, in practice this step is often neglected or not performed well, resulting into a sense of increased complexity or lack of client ownership. Two studies were used to investigate reverging in context: a preliminary study consisted of interviews and observations to better understand reverging in current visual thinking practices. The follow-up study focused on co-creating a tool to solve the problem identified in the preliminary study. While the preliminary study revealed the need to involve clients in both diverging and reverging phases, the follow-up study resulted in the creation of the Whiteboard Canvas. The tool was tested in practice and several benefits of reverging in visual thinking practices emerged. The tool empowers visual thinking practitioners to involve their clients more actively in reverging, resulting into a more deliberate creative process and an increased sense of client ownership.

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Creativity is one of the vital 21st century skills. As the subject of a large academic and practitioner community since 1950, there are literally hundreds of books and thousands of techniques on creativity. In this book, this body of knowledge is boiled down for modern scholars and facilitators to one framework called iCPS, integrated Creative Problem Solving.

For the techniques, the book focuses on techniques for groups and details 40 essential ones. This is the main part of the book. The set of 40 covers all the techniques in the field and offers the building blocks to construct group sessions. Guidelines for organizing sessions will help the reader position the building blocks and make the design for a smooth process. The website will offer even more details and practicalities to run magic sessions and courses.

Katrina Heijne is lecturer and researcher at Delft University of Technology specialized in Creative Facilitation and founder of the consultancy firm SeriousCreativity.

Han van der Meer is lecturer emeritus Innovation Management at Delft University of Technology, emeritus professor and chair Innovative Entrepreneurship at Saxion University of Applied Sciences and senior consultant at SeriousCreativity.@en

Project U_CODE. funded by EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 688873@en

Different cases of public disagreement in different European countries have shown recently that perusing a thorough planning process is by no means a guarantee for a broad public acceptance of an envisioned urban project. Consequently, the employment of digital media and tools to enable participation of inhabitants in urban planning processes on a massive scale is a promising, but currently not comprehensively analyzed approach. Our research activities are intended to gain an overview on a state of the art of research on communication channels, methods and best practices as well as to identify key challenges and promising strategies and tools to overcome these challenges with specific regards to large numbers of users and digital supported approaches. The latter aspects comprise the investigation of phenomena like participant selection, framing effects and gamified approaches for digital-mediated participatory processes as well as native language processing techniques to examine opinions as well as ideas of relevance from massive public feedback. To examine, we performed literature reviews of several hundred research articles, investigated cases in Germany, France and the Netherlands by interviews and workshops with stakeholders and employed methods of prototyping to conceptualize, develop and assess some promising approaches such as sentiment analysis in detail.

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