The 2022 PI meeting was held as a thematic working meeting focused on field building and experience sharing. Projects were asked to come prepared to share ongoing/formative experiences about their incomplete work. During the meeting, projects engaged in sharing and reflection around the meeting themes with the goal of gathering input, getting unstuck, collecting insights, and receiving advice. Projects were asked to reflect on and identify best practices and share how they will incorporate this guidance to strengthen their current project work. NSF Program Officers developed the meeting themes

Design thinking emphasizes that in addition to being creative, design solutions should be empathetic. Yet, research suggests there may be a tension between these goals, where focusing on empathy comes at a cost to creativity, sometimes by inducing fixation. We investigated this phenomenon through a quasi-experimental design with novice designers, contrasting two structured ideation techniques in which participants (N = 47) generated bad ideas prior to proposing beneficial ideas. Specifically, they used the wrong theory protocol (WTP) to generate harmful and humiliating ideas, and a variant in