“Ideas are really…” – supporting collaborative dialogues and community of practice for innovation via CO:RE cards

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Suhaimi, S. N., Walters, A., & Ward, J. (2024). ‘“Ideas are really…” – supporting collaborative dialogues and community of practice for innovation via CO:RE cards’, Proceedings of the Design Society, 4, 1105–1114. doi:10.1017/pds.2024.113

“Collaborative dialogues using CO:RE Cards have been found to prompt tacit knowledge sharing, collective knowledge building, mutual learning and collaborative meaning-making that address the required elements to form a CoP.”

This study explores the benefits of integrating card-based tools as prompts for discussions on innovation in a collaborative dialogue environment among creative industry practitioners. The authors aim to demonstrate how CO:RE Cards, a COllaborative and REflective deck developed based on Research and Development (R&D) and user-centred design prompts, can be used to encourage collaborative dialogue and shared understanding among non-design practitioners.

The use of CO:RE Cards was evaluated in three sessions within a collaborative dialogue environment, exclusively catered to the cohorts of Media Cymru’s R&D support programmes. It was analysed that they have prompted the building of a collective language and understanding among creative practitioners through collaborative knowledge construction and mutual learning. We discuss the potentially significant role of CO:RE Cards in nurturing a Community of Practice (CoP) for innovation in the creative industries.

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