First Brainstorm - meet the Team (week23)

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Christmas Window display 2017
How are the team working? What is the nature of Entrepreneurship?

Initial meeting of just the three of us today, to talk in more depth about our joint project. We have a good combination of skills to go forward with, although none of us are particularly website/graphic poster art based, everyone is keen to learn new skills as well as use their current ones... both R and B have a background in film/animation so it would be good to incorporate that somehow into our final piece.

We are still all interested in the robot/AI/human ethics idea, not quite sure how that might develop into an "innovation" yet - obviously my own area of AI based digital pattern cutting is also a possibility but it seems a bit of a cop-out as it's already my major project area... then again maybe it's an opportunity for my personal expertise to be of use to the team...

We might want to interview industry people as part of our website research - maybe even video them and use the footage somehow, so ethics forms will need to be completed for those.

We are going to each come up with a few ideas and re-convene to talk about them some more. We are also going to create some mood boards to spark conversation and mind maps too....

It might even be an idea to play with some of the IDEO method cards for tech innovation and really workshop the concepts.

We are spending quite a bit of time really looking for a strong concept for the project as this is going to define the visual approach as well as which companies we decide to target.
I am preparing a list of problems in fashion and textiles which I believe could benefit from enhanced digital technologies for the others too as this is my specialist area.

This seems to be the key to successful entrepreneurship - the implementation of an idea that actually solves a problem that many people have or the accurate prediction of a trend. It is then obviously not enough to simply have a "great" idea - thinking about the benefits of that and it's problems in implementing it are also important. For this project we can really expand our thinking as we don't need to actually be able to produce or create our "product" ourselves, but I think in order to engage peoples imaginations it's important that it is rooted it technology that actually exists and examines a problem we actually have now.

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