Dirty design

Dirty Design Session (Author: Prof. Sonja Hörster)

A "Dirty Design Session" is a creative method that works with the different perspectives on a design question. A design session creates space in which emerging ideas and concepts can be put down on paper, jointly differentiated and recorded as a draft.
During a design process it is often useful that emerging ideas and concepts can be sketched as a spontaneous draft. The group (or several groups) is given the opportunity to put their ideas on paper in a relatively short time window. The name "Dirty Design" already shows that these are approximations that may be discarded at any time.

A "Dirty Design Session" is suitable for working intensively in smaller teams of four to five people on the solution of a design question.
The design session is often a session within a longer workshop (one to several days). Every workshop participant can take part in this session.

Determine time frame: between 45 minutes and 2 hours
Form multi-perspective small groups: 4 to 6 people, like to mix people with different perspectives
Ask "how questions": How does this xxx has to be designed to solve xxx?
Collect thoughts, exchange, discuss ideas and draw them on a map

Several design sessions can follow each other, but there should always be phases in which the results are presented and possibly discussed in a larger group. Breaks should also not be forgotten.
Detailing concepts

This method must be prepared by other methods. The teams should already be in resonance with the place and the task.
The method must be prepared: plans and drawing materials must be available.

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