Ideathons

An Ideathon is an event designed to foster creativity and innovation.

At IdeasLab, our Ideathons (idea + marathon) bring together students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to brainstorm and develop solutions to specific challenges, on a particular theme. The emphasis is on collaborative ideation, where participants work as a team to leverage their collective knowledge and skills and generate novel ideas and solutions.

We run regular Ideathons on various topics such as sustainability, AI and accessibility, with a variety of stakeholders, whether units across the University or external partners and organisations, meaning that participants gain insight into a broad range of areas where they could create impact - from simple yet effective changes in facilities, to shortcomings in policy. As always, human-centred design remains at the core.

Ideathons are a great way to try out IdeasLab activities, build Design Thinking as a skill, and get hands-on with creating something - in addition to meeting like-minded people and having some fun too!