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Understanding and Managing Polarities in Facilitation
Much of facilitation is about holding and navigating tension: between structure and flexibility, speed and depth, individual thinking and group dialogue. Facilitators constantly make judgment calls about how to balance competing, yet equally important, forces in real time. These tensions are not signs that something is going wrong—they are examples of polarities. What Are Polarities?…
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Three Case Studies in Facilitating Through Uncertainty
Last fall, our team at KnowInnovation wrapped up three very different projects, each with its own goals, communities, and scientific domains. What they shared, unexpectedly, was context: all three took place during a federal government shutdown. For organizations and collaborations that include government agencies, a shutdown introduces immediate and very real uncertainty. Participation becomes unclear.…
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Inside the UVA BDSIL Seminar Series
The series exists as a library of knowledge to help foster communication and collaboration between professionals in the Biomedical and Data Science fields working on complex interdisciplinary problems.
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The Village Grows: Considering the Community of Creative Practitioners
Knowinnovation’s origin story can be traced back to the CPSI community. KI was born out of the need to adapt the tenets of creative problem-solving to interdisciplinary science. What’s more, KI has given birth to a few offspring of its own: Innovation Bound, which takes the KI approach into the corporate world, and Inclusive Innovation,…
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The ALS Cure Project: Writing the Roadmap to a Remedy
How personal loss sparked a coordinated international effort to accelerate ALS research ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a devastating, incurable neurodegenerative disease the causes of which are not known. Over time, the disease robs its victims of the ability to control their muscles and most experience a slow, excruciating decline. It is also devastating…
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Navigating the Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research: A Closer Look at Knowledge Integration
In today’s ever-evolving landscape, interdisciplinary research (IDR) has emerged as a critical tool for tackling complex societal challenges. This blog post delves into the distinctive challenges faced by IDR, focusing on the crucial aspect of knowledge integration. By understanding the unique hurdles posed by diverse disciplines, we can pave the way for more effective and…
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Technology-Driven Future of Cancer Research
Virtual Jumpstart connected synthetic biologists with cancer researchers to create novel therapeutic approaches Lab-engineered cells are injected into a patient where they latch onto a tumor and deliver a lethal therapeutic payload. Another type of synthetic cells attaches to the inside of a person’s intestines and becomes detectable using ultrasound if they encounter cancerous cells.…
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Earlier Detection of Cancer
How CRUK’s Sandpit Workshops are accelerating breakthrough research in early cancer detection In the United Kingdom, only 25 percent of cancers are detected at stage 1. Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has been holding Sandpit Workshops since 2018 focusing on the early detection of cancer. Sandpits, which are known as Ideas Labs in the U.S., are…
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Coming Together (Virtually) for a Healthier Africa
Scaling a 350-person meeting to 1600+ participants required inventing new virtual networking tools and interactive experiences One thing we love about working with scientists is that they are motivated by trying to make the world a better place. They see problems, such as the need to apply the latest in data science to improve public…
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Coordinating Sustainability Research & Innovation
Future Earth is bringing the world’s climate scientists together in a coordinated way so that precious time and resources are not lost. The organisation recently held a Virtual Summit to get it through a crossroads in its fulfilling its mission.
