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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Timeline | ![]() Facilitation Barcamp | ![]() Innovation Starbursting | ![]() Innovation Design Charrette |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time. | When many people can contribute knowledge and the flow should stay open, Barcamp provides a framework for self-organized sessions. The format channels energy without defining the content too narrowly in advance. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | Halber Tag bis 2 Tage | 30-60 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 15-200 | 3-10 | 10-50 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Session Board, Session Notes, Community Learnings | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Sketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | FacilitationLarge groupLearning | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation |



