Alex Osborn’s top-down brainstorming (1948) inverted into a bottom-up method by Prof. Jiro Kawakita. Groups take disparate ideas and build structure on top of them. Building block for Presentation Power.
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- workshop
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- 30–60 min · 5–20 participants
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