A19: Innovating searching

To gather new ideas we did a normal brainstorming session at the beginning of our group meeting. At this session we asked a specific question (“How to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in traffic for Alcoi?”), so the aim was clear and simple since we already know the topic very well. Everybody thought freely about solutions that Alcoi could benefit from. As a next step we cleared the table and everybody proposed their ideas, similar ideas were clustered. Afterwards, when everybody had a good overview, we started a second phase of brainstorming.

As the next method we used “8x8”, because we thought with the eight different categories we are close to our project since we have a lot of different stakeholders or areas that need to be considered. We sorted the ideas we had before into the different categories, some adjustments were to be made to fit the ideas more to their topic. To complete the second phase we made another brainstorming session, but in a group instead of individually like before. Doing that we had at least eight ideas per category. Having a free table with all the ideas on, helps brainstorming a lot because everybody can walk around the table to get a good overview about all the different suggestions.

After taking a break we started our last approach with a fresh mind. Our last approach was much more focused on feasibility. We looked at the ideas already created and tried to combine them in a way that would make a feasible, logical and more developed idea. With the last ideas we created we can work further on and develop them deeper.

Idea Tree

On the day of our last project meeting with the delegation form Alcoi we as a group came up with the so called 'idea tree', which is a result of a certain brainstorming exercise, for our project. During the previous days we thought it over and improved it a little bit.We asked ourselves the following question: "How can all stakeholders (in Alcoi) reduce the individual use of cars?". But frankly we also came up with other ideas that are not directly connected with the question. On the first picture from below you can see different our different categories which we used as clusters. They include certain stakeholders that we whant to call up to act and furthermore some more specifications. For example the cluster 'infrastructure' belongs truely to the some department of the municipal or provicial government, but includes a lot of ideas that we chose to cluster it in one additional group.
Of course the citizens are demanded in a much larger way than our brainstorming session represents. Our focus of the session was: 'What can the government / public transport / public institutions / ... do for the people to help them change their behaviour to better themselves?' A huge part of responsibility lays in the hands of the citizens, they have to be aware and adapt to the changes to shape a better future.
In the two other pictures you will find our more or less feasible and creative ideas which we will evaluate over time.
If you have remarks or questions to any idea stated please do not hesitate to discuss in the comment sections.