ARC Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods: Design Jam

This workshop is for ARC centre students and post docs to help us to get a clear set of ideas and a plan for potential start-up businesses.

We will be inviting our Indigenous Enterprise partners to join us in person and virtually, as well as an expert panel at the beginning of the day.

About the Design Jam: Design thinking is a framework for creative problem-solving. Design thinking has a human-centred core. It encourages organizations to focus on the people they are creating for, which leads to better products, services, and internal processes. It allows those who are not trained as designers to use creative tools to
address a vast range of challenges. The overall goal of the design thinking session is to help you design better products, services, processes, strategies, spaces, and experiences. Design thinking helps you and your team develop practical and innovative solutions for your problems.

8:30am – 9:00am
Guest Arrival

9.00am – 9.10am
Welcome + Introduction
Participants will be invited to take part in an ice-breaker activity to get to
know the members of their innovation teams for the session. UQ
Ventures will then share the rules of engagement for the session along
with guiding principles.
UQ Ventures

9:10am – 9:45am
Problem Statement
ARC Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Food and UQ Ventures to
present the problem statement for the session to frame the day and give
participants their foundational challenge. (Yasmina 5 minutes)
Speaking panel will engage with audience Q&A (30 minutes)

9:45am – 10:30am
Phase One
A brainstorming activity will help the teams to come up with as many
ideas as possible to address the problem statement. First individually,
then together as a team.

10.30am – 10.45am MORNING TEA

10:45am – 12:00pm
Phase Two
The teams will categorise and group the ideas generated in the
brainstorming activity and present it to the broader room for feedback and
idea voting activity for participants.

12.00pm –1.00pm LUNCH

1:00pm – 2:30pm
Phase Three
Teams will vote on the top solution (depending on what is pitched) to
progress to the next stage, in which they will focus on and provide more
details on purpose, functionality etc.
Sketches, role playing, and quick prototyping would be made to assist in
the representation of the ideas.

2:30pm – 4:00pm
Phase Four
Presentation of their ideas, debrief and wrap up. ARC Training Centre for
Uniquely Australian Food will present next steps to the audience.