New Working Method to Achieve New Results
Can a design sprint address society’s need to purify, manage, and utilise stormwater?
Perhaps. At the very least, it gives the work a good push in the right direction. As Henrik Aspegren, CEO of Sweden Water Research, puts it: “If we are to find new solutions, we need to try new ways of working. If we keep doing what we’ve always done, we’ll get the same results we always have.”
A Design Sprint is a method for quickly tackling major challenges, sketching ideas, or building and testing a prototype. In this case, the ISWIM project utilised the approach to develop new purification techniques at the Värpinge wetland in Lund. In October, participants from Luleå in the north, Sundsvall in the middle, and Malmö in the south gathered to work on the question: “How can we design a scalable prototype that provides insights into how we can cost-effectively purify MPOF – Mobile Persistent Organic Pollutants?”
The outcome includes both technical decisions and sketches of potential facilities, as well as social science aspects like acceptance, attractiveness, and added value.