The Marshmallow Challenge: a lesson in creative collaboration
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The Marshmallow Challenge: a lesson in creative collaboration
How to create better collaboration using marshmallows to learn about a group's strengths and weaknesses in a design process.
Edit: after publishing I was made aware that Tom Wujec was not the inventer of this challenge, as it might have been expressed that he was. Therefore, I have made edits to correct this. Peter Skillman is the original inventer of this design challenge: read more about this in Peters own article.
Back in 2006 Peter Skillman invented the Marshmallow challenge. Which later was popularized by Tom Wujec.
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This design challenge is based on the work of Peter Skillman and he also have a fantastic article about this; The Design Challenge (also called Spaghetti Tower). Watch the Peter Skillmans TED on the original version of this design challenge:
In short, the exercise involves participants in groups of 4 building the tallest tower…
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