{"id":84,"date":"2016-10-21T15:01:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T15:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/?p=84"},"modified":"2016-10-25T13:15:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T13:15:57","slug":"curious-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/curious-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"emojify\">Venturing into the unknown<\/h2>\n<p>Wednesday 16th October 2016 was an auspicious day at Dundee University. All nine Schools from across the campus came together for the first time, committed to looking at new ways of\u00a0working to\u00a0solve\u00a0some of the most pressing health and social care challenges of our time.\u00a0With 36 fresh thinking students from Art and Design, Dentistry, Education and Social Work, Humanities, Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences,\u00a0and support from six local\u00a0organisations &#8211; Amino, Deaf Hub, DialOp, Hearing Voices, Homeless Populations and PAMIS &#8211; we ventured forward as a new, ambitious collective!<\/p>\n<p>We pitched up at the\u00a0School of Art &amp; Design in the heart of the campus, and used the BarCamp method to kick-start our work. Why BarCamp? It is an &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unconference\">unconference<\/a>&#8216;; a meeting where everyone can contribute, where everyone can present a topic and generate a discussion (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/263325804_BARCAMP_Technology_Foresights_and_Statistics_for_the_Future\">Azzimonti et al, 2015<\/a>). Mindful that\u00a0people would be meeting each other for the first time, and\u00a0had\u00a0no previous experience of working together, our aim for Day 1 of the project\u00a0was simple: to enable everyone to develop an understanding of the project, as well as an understanding of each other and the creative process about to be undertaken.<\/p>\n<p>The subject demands agility, critical thinking and teamwork; the project is time sensitive\u00a0(with only four sessions out with the induction) and so, in setting the scene we talked about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3045148\/work-smart\/8-habits-of-curious-people\">importance of curiosity<\/a> &#8211; of <em>accepting<\/em> we don&#8217;t have all of the answers, of <em>venturing<\/em> into the unknown together, and leading the\u00a0navigation into unchartered waters\u00a0with <em>questions<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>With jazz playing in the background,\u00a06 hours of dynamic conversation and questioning pursued, ending in six self selecting teams to work on an issue of their choice and with an organisation of their choice. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a visual snapshot\u00a0of Day 1 #UoDGHC16 :<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/10\/GHC-Blog-Image_day-1.jpg\" alt=\"GHC Blog Image_day 1\" width=\"1420\" height=\"1063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/10\/GHC-Blog-Image_day-1.jpg 1420w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/10\/GHC-Blog-Image_day-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/10\/GHC-Blog-Image_day-1-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/10\/GHC-Blog-Image_day-1-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1420px) 100vw, 1420px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venturing into the unknown Wednesday 16th October 2016 was an auspicious day at Dundee University. All nine Schools from across the campus came together for the first time, committed to looking at new ways of\u00a0working to\u00a0solve\u00a0some of the most pressing health and social care challenges of our time.\u00a0With 36 fresh thinking students from Art and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/curious-minds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Curious Minds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":87,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[6,12,7,11,8],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcamp","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-global-health-challenge","tag-leadership-and-innovation","tag-uodghc16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}