From Chefs to Kitchen Captains: A Leader Figure for Collaborative Networks in the Kitchen
This chapter will explore the advantages of a kitchen setting as a place to enhance collaborative learning and design. We will then introduce a special persona present in such a collaborative cooking session—the Kitchen Captain—who enhances communication
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From Chefs to Kitchen Captains: A Leader Figure for Collaborative Networks in the Kitchen Taichi Isaku and Takashi Iba
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Introduction
This chapter will explore the possibility of collaborative networks in a rather unique environment: the kitchen. We will do this by introducing a new persona we have identified called the Kitchen Captain, who leads the collaboration in the kitchen. Cooking, though widely conceived as either a household chore or a professional skill, is the simplest form of design that many of us go through on a daily basis. It is a creative process that requires abstract skills including generating ideas and solving problems. It may seem a highly complex set of skills, but many of us are able to overcome the difficulty with the process driven by hunger. What’s better, these abstract skills, with a little help, are skills that can be applied and used in various situations outside the kitchen as well. To further deepen the discussion, we will introduce a rather new concept called CoCooking. By introducing a collaborative aspect to cooking, its creative aspects are enhanced. By inviting multiple people into the kitchen—regardless of their ability to cook—the experience becomes a platform for co-creation and collaborative learning. The Kitchen Captain is merely the leader persona that appears in such a cooking. The idea of the Kitchen Captain was derived from a superordinate persona called the Generator. The Generator is a rather new leader figure we have found to be present in collaborative networks who leads and iterates the process of a collaborative inquiry by involving the people around her into the process by enhancing their
T. Isaku (*) Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan e-mail: [email protected] T. Iba Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 M.P. Zylka et al. (eds.), Designing Networks for Innovation and Improvisation, Springer Proceedings in Complexity, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42697-6_12
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creative desires. When the collaborative inquiry occurs in the kitchen through cooking, there the Kitchen Captain is present. The idea of the Generator along with her traits and skills are covered and formulated into a pattern language in another study by a team including the authors (Nagai et al. 2016). This chapter will go off on a tangent from this earlier study to consider the Kitchen Captain and inquires in the kitchen to propose a new form of cooking that focuses on enhancing team creativity and communication.
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Background
As background information for our chapter, we will first go briefly over general trends on our relation with design and creation, and then we will get into more details by focusing our discussion on cooking.
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From Industrialization to the Creative Society
For much of the past few centuries, we have lived in an age of consumption. Thanks to the invention of machines, we have enjoyed the luxury of consumi
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