2021
November 24th
Brain
Career Development Course

Prototyping workshop

Webinar

Unfortunately, the Prototyping workshop is cancelled. A new date will be proposed soon.

In science we get stuck. A lot. It is inherent to our craft, because we are constantly pushing the boundary between known and unknown. But when scientists get stuck they don’t even have the words to describe what they are experiencing, seeing and feeling. When the experiment doesn’t work or a student gets stuck on coming up with innovative research questions or procrastinate on a paper, most students get stressed and even depressed.

We know that when feeling fear and despair our mind narrows down to safe and conservative ways of thinking. And you cannot reach your full potential. In order to discover something really new, you need other emotions: comfort mixed with excitement, you need playfulness and hope. But you also need abilities and mindsets that help you get unstuck.

Course in English
Registration deadline

Presentation

Objectives

You will explore how early and low-resolution prototyping can help you test your research ideas early, seek out feedback on unfinished work and progress your projects faster. PhD students often suffer from inner critic, so they end up spending way too much time on making things perfect before showing it to their advisor or anyone else. You will learn how to see your work as a series of mini experiments with rough prototypes in order to test your ideas and assumptions early. You will work on quieting down your inner critic, unleashing your creativity and progressing a project you are currently stuck on.

Personal Work

This is a fast paced experiential workshop, where you will work individually and in pairs on a real challenge you are facing.

ECTS Information

N/A

Research themes
Master's student
PhD student
Researcher
Postdoctoral fellow

Practical Informations

Practical Informations

2-5pm CET

To learn more about the methodology and work as well as watch the demo video, visit the website https://www.creativityinresearch.org/

RECOMMENDED LITERATURE (optional):

Ulibarri, N., Cravens, A., Svetina Nabergoj, A., Kernbach, S., & Royalty, A. (2019). Creativity in Research: Cultivate Clarity, Be Innovative, and Make Progress in your Research Journey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108594639

Selection result
November 16, 2021
There is no registration fee for this course
Place
Webinar
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Maximum Number of Participants

20 people

Number of Participants

20 participants

Selection Criteria

This course is for Institut Curie's staff only.

Priority to PhDs & selection on the first come, first served basis.

Speakers

Speakers

Anja Svetina Nabergoj (PhD)

Anja Svetina Nabergoj (PhD) is Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana and Lecturer at Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University. For the last 10 years she has been developing pedagogy for teaching innovation process and nurturing creative mindsets to management in leading global companies as well as scientists in labs across Stanford campus.

With her team she developed the curriculum for applying design thinking to scientific and scholarly research and has been teaching programs for graduate students and faculty members all around the world. With her team she developed a pedagogy to nurture creative potential in young scholars and empower them to combine scientific process with design principles and creative practice to produce original research in their field. They have published a book Creativity in Research: Cultivate Clarity, Be Innovative, and Make Progress in your Research Journey (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Anja is on the Advisory Board of The Stanford Catalyst for Collaborative Solutions, which is a new initiative with a bold mission to create an open space to explore uncommon interdisciplinary solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.

Keynote speakers

This list of speakers may still change