The document describes L*unchBox, a multidisciplinary innovation workshop where students from different backgrounds work together over a week to solve real-world challenges. It discusses the origins of L*unchBox in 2009 and explains that the complexity of modern problems requires mixing skills and backgrounds. The workshop provides hands-on experience for students and uses design thinking tools and methods to generate ideas and develop concepts. Participants gain experience with collaborative problem solving while workshop leaders explore how to enable multidisciplinary innovation.

1. A multidisciplinary
innovation workshop
Mission rundown
Sept 2017

2. What is L*unchBox?
A multidisciplinary, design-
led, experiential learning
event for people interested
in design thinking and
innovation.

3. 2009
The idea for a multidisciplinary workshop was
initially seeded in Saint Etienne, France…

4. 2009
… and brought over to the United Kingdom in
the search for a viable partnership between a
strong engineering degree and a strong
design degree.
The rest is history.

5. Why is there a L*unchBox?
The complexity of modern product and
services exceeds by far the capabilities of
individuals, even talented ones.
Mixing skills & backgrounds sounds obvious,
but not enough…
Some method is necessary.

6. The topic is not important…
The purpose of the workshop is to create a design-led
framework for approaching all sorts of challenges and
problems in our society.
While our workshop leaders and facilitators are seasoned
design and innovation professionals, their expertise does not
lie in each specific topic of the workshop.Neither are the
participants proficient in the challenge they have to solve.
It is on purpose. And the outcome is truly impressive.
This goes to prove the power of a multidisciplinary, design-
led approach, and the ability of our process to enable
remarkable solutions.

7. Why is there a L*unchBox?
1.
Platform to expose students to hands-on
team working, on a real-life problem, with
a real-life output.
2.
Lab to explore emerging social issues
with a design-led approach.

8. L*unchBox multidisciplinarity

9. 2016: Academic partners

10. How does it work?
Our model
1 question
Social
Technology
Global
Trend forecast
Commercial
5 teams, +500 ideas
Associations
Analogies
Perceptions
+40 clusters
Experience
Social Intuition
16 proposals
Relevance
Innovation
Feasibility
8 concepts
Elaboration
Tools
Methodology
8 final
projects
Scenario
Market
Technology

11. How does it work?
How students see it…

12. How does it work?
A few tools we use
Idea generation

13. How does it work?
A few tools we use
Idea clustering

14. How does it work?
A few tools we use
Design safari

15. How does it work?
A few tools we use
Starters (project concepts)

16. How does it work?
A few tools we use
Starter presentation

17. How does it work?
A few tools we use
Personas and scenarios

18. How does it work?
A few tools we use
Pizza slices

19. How does it work?
A few tools we use
Pizza eating

20. How does it work?
A few tools we use
Problem swapping

21. Guest lectures
How does it work?
A few tools we use

22. User interviews
How does it work?
A few tools we use

23. Rapid prototyping
How does it work?
A few tools we use

24. How does it work?
A few tools we use
Idea pitching

25. How does it work?
Behind the scenes: measuring expectations perceptions on multidiciplinarity

26. How does it work?
Behind the scenes: analysis of team personalities and dynamics

27. Ta-daaa!
L*unchbox in numbers
9
student
workshop
s
2
company
workshop
25+
countries
75+
final
projects
4
post-doc
researchers
6800
ideas
420
students
25
facilitators
trained

28. Ta-daaa! A few examples of previous topics and project ideas
2009: Mobile devices for mobile energey

29. Ta-daaa!
In the meantime, in 2014…

30. Ta-daaa! A few examples of previous topics and project ideas
2010: Identities materialised

31. Ta-daaa!
In the meantime, in 2011…

32. Ta-daaa! A few examples of previous topics and project ideas
2011: FabLabs

33. Ta-daaa!
In the meantine, in 2013

34. Ta-daaa! A few examples of previous topics and project ideas
2013: Learning spaces

35. Ta-daaa! A few examples of previous topics and project ideas
2014: Retail spaces

36. Ta-daaa! A few examples of previous topics and project ideas
2015: Connected communities

37. Ta-daaa! A few examples of previous topics and project ideas
2016: Ageing population

38. Ta-daaa! A few examples of previous topics and project ideas
2017: Work-life balance and future workspaces

39. Ta-daaa!
What people say about L*unchbox
From both participant and facilitator
views, the L*unchBox workshop is a very
efficient and valuable way to put into practice
number of the theoretical methods to
stimulate and use creativity, after having
seen them only in an academic perspective.
Therefore, it is one of the (too few) bridges
between academic knowledges and industrial
know-hows that could potentially help
differentiate one student from another.”
L*unchBox was the first contact I
had with what I can call "the real
world work environment". It is a very
hands on experiment that pushes
your limits for a week, while also
helping you define your role in a
creative team.”
“ While working through
different sets of idea-generation
methods on a common problem
added to our students’ toolkits, I
felt the face-to-face experiences
of collaborating with design
professionals from over 15
different countries is what sets
L*unchBox apart from other
innovation-centered
collaborations.”
“
What I learned from the L*unchBox
Workshop is working with multi-discipline
members has great value to have creativity,
innovative ideas, and wide insight for design.”
“
“This workshop taught me the
importance of working in a team.
There should not be an innovation
department in our company, but
instead there should be an innovation
mindset. And L*unchBox made me
see the importance of this kind of
thinking.”
“

40. How do we take our
students’ ideas forward to
organisations that are able
to make them happen?
Help?
Some challenges we’re yet to figure out…

41. How do we progress from
multidisciplinarity to
multiprofessionality?
Help?
Some challenges we’re yet to figure out…

42. Help?
Some future plans…
- Build a network of facilitators.
- Franchise the workshop.
- Impact local communities.

43. Want in?
A few ways to get involved in L*unchbox…
I’m a student I’m a university I’m a company I’m just curious!
1. Take part in the workshop
as a participant.
1. Send your students to
be participants in the
workshop.
2. Host the workshop.
3. Use the workshop to
conduct design-driven
research.
4. Send an observer.
1. Send your people to be
participants at the
workshop.
2. Sponsor the workshop.
3. Bring the workshop to
your office.
4. Use the workshop to
conduct design-driven
research.
5. Take over and further
develop or implement a
student project.
1. Take part in the
workshop as a
participant.
2. Become a L*unchBox
facilitator.
3. Be a research observer.

44. Want in?
What’s in it for you?
I’m a student I’m a university I’m a company I’m just curious!
Get to work hand-on on a
real life challenge, with a
real life multidisciplinary
team, coming from many
different countries and
professional backgrounds.
Plus you might end up
developing your very own
business idea in the
process.
Bring design thinking and
innovation training to your
curricula and engage with
world class professionals
into design-led research.
Experience hands-on how
to approach big social
issues and bring create
design-driven solutions.
Train your team into
design thinking approach
to solving problems.
Use the workshop as an
innovation engine by
generating future product
and business ideas that
have the potential to be
game changers.
Engage with a
multidisciplinary group of
students and take a
different approach to r&d.
Learn about design thinking
and innovation.
Be part of a
multidisciplinary,
multicultural community of
design thinkers.

45. Over the years, the L*unchBox recieved an amazing support from many partners and
friends. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from:
Fondation

46. Thank you!
Get in touch
Look us up on Slideshare to see more of our students’ projects.
David Delafosse
david.delafosse@emse.fr
MSE, Senior Vice-President for Research and Innovation
Andra Oprisan
hei@andraoprisan.com
Strategy Lead

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