Eco-Ideation Workshops: Definition and Requirements

To develop creative eco-ideation workshops it is necessary to structure a series of objectives and tasks, establishing the design of the workshop itself. In our work the theoretical process is presented, its justification and an example of preparation of a workshop is shown. The design process establishes design and manufacturing requirements, plays a key role in eco-innovation, and the eco-design phase must be integrated into the generation of ideas and concepts. Only a few creativity tools have been adapted for eco-innovation, so the ideation phase of eco-innovation is limited, this fact allows the definition of a proper process for the development of creative workshops in eco-innovation projects. Specificities for eco-ideation process are the definition of objectives, the expert profile selection and environmental parameters included in the metrics. The preliminary stages of preparation define the process, but also establish the criteria for selecting participants, creative techniques, and criteria for evaluating results. There is no described methodology to apply in these processes and this work aims to define a series of basic actions and reflect the experience of a real project.