A workshop that replicates and accelerates the front end stages of a typical design development process and can be tailored to the specific aims of its organisers through the framing of the brief and the selection of participants. These may include designers and those from other disciplines such engineers and specialists in the theme of the workshop as well as end users. The format allows for a ‘dream team’ to be assembled to work on a given area and can take the form of a public design challenge, academic teaching module or an internal company workshop.