INNOVATION GYM
By Achilleas Kentonis
​Artecitya / Agency / Collaboration

[research lab] [lectures]
Innovation Gym is a research lab dedicated to the discovery of new ways to invent and/or re-invent ideas, processes, products, policies and infrastructures, through mind-shifting towards innovative thinking and the use of existing knowledge and experience.  
 
Innovation Gym is a blend of artistic and scientific practices/actions, which are applied in the society for the benefit of the people and the economy; whilst focusing on the aspect of social impact. This practical crash course is always custom-made and combined with: a research on the specific topic on which it focuses each time, and a study of the profile of the people attending. 
 
Innovation Gym is developed in three steps: 
  1. How to get new and innovative ideas 
  2. How to select and predict which of your ideas will succeed  
  3. Design the blueprints and plans of your idea in a rapid-mapping approach.


​Achilleas Kentonis

Trans-disciplinary Artist / Innovation trainer / Engineer
 
He studied Engineering, Physics and Fine Arts in the University of South Alabama, USA and at the Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Spain and completed a professional education program on Innovation at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Boston, USA.
 
As a researcher / scientist he participated in research programs at NASA, the University of Cyprus and the Aegean University. He is the founder of Innovation Gym and co-founder of ARTos Foundation; a non-profit organization dedicated to Arts, Sciences, Innovation and Social Impact through creative practices. 

ARTECITYA AGENCY
Goethe Institut
Thessaloniki, Greece
2 - 4 Dec. 2015

Concept & Lectures:
Achilleas Kentonis

Coordination:
ArtBOX

Co-financed by:
The Creative Europe program, Goethe Institut Thessaloniki and Artos Foundation

The project is funded with support from the European Commission. 
This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.