I was given the opportunity to assist Dr. Mark Passera with the Design Sprint element of the Professional Doctorate module RD63001 - Transforming Lives Through Innovation. Due to COViD 19 the module was delivered virtually, via the Blackboard interface. The doctoral group comprised of approximately 15 attendees and the session ran for about an hour and a half. The group were mainly from health and business backgrounds and my role today involved some ice-breaker creative thinking activities, user experience and persona slides. Starting with a simple cartoon sketch of Einstein to encourage everyone to relax about the creative process. We played 'what can you see?' and all attendees were given 30 seconds to write down their observations and thoughts about three shapes on the screen. There were no wrong or right answers - simply individual perspectives. Answers included a stomach with unusual contents, a toxic dust cloud, honeycomb, covid10 molecule, adventure game plastic Dracm...
