When? Tuesday 9th September, 2014
Where? Ryegate Children’s centre.
To try and develop a research project in this area, we used Lego Serious Play to create
storyboards to try and understand current practice, and imagine how the SMART
shoes might enable effective self-management for the children.
This method was chosen because the most effective
storyboards are visual. Everyone can draw, but it takes bravery to put pen to
paper in front of your peers, and doubly so for people you don’t know -
especially if drawing in front of someone who does it professionally. Therefore
to maintain the visual storyboards and avoid drawing, we used Lego.
Benefits of Lego include:
- The ‘rules’ are clear- blocks attach and release in a manner we are all familiar with
- The pieces are predetermined
- Lego allows for collaboration – pieces fit together on a common, modular basis enabling teamwork.
- Meaning is constructed at the same time as the model itself – the workshop isn’t a building competition, rather even the most ‘random’ assortment of blocks is assigned a meaning by the participant… it is often the job of the facilitator to help decode and reach a shared understanding of the models to enable critical reflection.
- It’s fun!
The workshop was split into two halves; 1) creating a Lego
storyboard representing the service now and 2) a Lego storyboard creation of how the SMART shoes might
bring added clinical value and also facilitate effective self-management:
The clinical scenario is co-owned by the workshop
participants as all had a hand in building the storyboard. There was no need
for the facilitator to ‘translate’, and the resulting ‘Lego storyboard’ is easy
to digest and understand.
This workshop highlights the value that design can bring to
health research. This method of visual storyboarding is fast, and produces
high-quality outputs that can be useful beyond the workshop- for patient
information leaflets, bids, etc.
The workshop outputs form the basis for further funding applications to continue an investigation.
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