20 people made the trip down the event, making up five groups of one facilitator, a service provider, a carer and a person(s) with a long term condition(s). Oh and we were joined by another member of the FutureGov family, Carrie Bishop.
We began the morning by watching a short film about the happenings of the Glasgow workshop. This helped the participants understand where the ideas had come from. We used storyboards to illustrate how each idea would work.
We then asked each participant to think about what they could share if these ideas were real. In thinking about their own methods of communication first they were then able to consider how they share information. What would they share? time ? skills? knowledge? advice? space?….
Naturally, this led to the groups critiquing aspects of the ideas generated in the previous week in Glasgow. To enable us to capture this feedback we wanted to show the participants how to blueprint! So we designed a tool that enabled people to ’servicize’ random objects: “Use the object on your table and design a service around it. What service might a ‘lemon’ enable?What is it called? What does it do?”
This was great fun and everyone came up with imaginative solutions. For example, the lemon enabled a health service called ‘Zest for life’ and a packet of jelly sweets enabled a positive psychology service called ‘Smile’.
With the group understanding blueprinting we spent the afternoon mapping the initial ideas in much greater detail. They changed the titles, changed the goals and tweaked the concepts. We learned alot about how someone would become aware of the Aliss engine ; how would they join? how would they leave?
And armed with that knowledge, it was onwards to Perth and get to grips with making these ideas work in real life…
