The role of IPD in facilitating design thinking and creativity

This chapter illustrates how integration and collaboration would occur on IPD projects both in theory and in practice. Throughout the chapter we drew links to illustrate how DT forms a base assumption across many chapters in this book. We also explained how DT may be used to better understand the why and how questions relating to the way that the Collaborative Framework, introduced in Chapter 2 (with supporting chapters that explain the foundational elements of the framework in Chapter 9, the behavioural elements in Chapter 15 and processes and means elements in Chapter 21) works in practice. We began the chapter by explaining DT and showing how it was particularly relevant for complex and chaotic projects. We introduced and explained fundamental concepts that need to be understood in order that DT in an IPD context is relevant. More specifically we focused on creativity, intuition, and improvisational aspects of a DT outcome. We also highlighted the knowledge, skills, attributes and experience of IPD team members that are relevant to DT in delivering highly complicated, complex and chaotic project situations. Finally, we then discussed an alliance project case study to illustrate key aspects to this chapter and the case study is referred to in numerous other chapters in this book so that readers may be familiar with its details to better understand the different contexts and perspectives discussed in the various chapters.