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Selected:Design CharretteARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Round Robin BrainstormingLotus Blossom
| Criterion |  Innovation Design Charrette |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 20-45 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 10-50 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Sketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |