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remixing storytelling to do some good
These mornings when you wake up and the first thing you do is grab pen and paper to write down the epiphanies you had … 80% are rubbish. But sometimes they’re the bomb. Below is a list that I wrote down in a frenzy one morning: purposeful storytelling* as a remix of schools and techniques…
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design thinkers
Just made another list on collaborative materials. Feels as if this can be extended massively. There’s no completion in this world, so I might just add to this successively. resources MEDEA Malmoe’s Prototyping Futures: http://medea.mah.se/2012/12/publication-prototyping-futures Frog’s Collective Action Toolkit http://www.frogdesign.com/collective-action-toolkit#download This is Service Design www.thisisservicedesignthinking.com Stanford dschool Bootcamp http://www.slideshare.net/laoudji/dschool-bootcamp-booleg Charles Leadbeater on Collaborative Innovation: http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_innovation.html…
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to design a purposeful story by many
I recently thought about our recent experiments with open design and story as Purposeful Storytelling. Stories have long been used for the purpose to inform, sell or persuade, but we’re onto something that involves story to ignite action and THEN do all of the above. I mean using storytelling to solve problems, to create a…
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new changemaker convo at learn do share
In our second changemaker podcast, we invited Jochen Schweitzer and Jörgen van der Sloot to share their experiences with design-led innovation, engaging the public and their perspective on business futures. Both experts in design thinking and business, they talk about future sensing, business development, the role of empathy, technology, and engagement; about bike tanks, crowdshare…
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the power of detachment
Do we produce better stories together, or alone? Do we actually know of stories that are created solo? Auteur theory has always neglected the fact that every film is made by a creative pool of producers, writers, directors, actors, designers, programmers, camera person… These established routines are challenged by mass collaboration, audience engagement and immersive…
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is the crowd a feasible design partner?
At u.lab’s opening session for their 2012 GroundBreaker series in Sydney we asked how collaboration can work best with external stakeholders. In an interactive session I had the honor to stir the crowd with David Gravina (Digital Eskimo) and Eric Folger (AMP). 50+ participants rolled up their sleeves, discussed with us, broke out into groups…
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i heart postmedialab
What can we make of ‘cognition in the wild’, when ‘the wild’ is seen not as threatening or dystopian, but as a social utopia? http://www.postmedialab.org
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resources, tools and collaboratories
Today’s political, social, environmental and economic landscape is confronted with challenges that are not addressed or solved sufficiently by policy-makers using known methods. Despite increasing calls, current systems for social change seem to also lack knowledge and skills to collaborate effectively. However, new platforms and resources grow in numbers, spreading new thinking to solve old…
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speaking of measuring engagament #2
Our panel at diy days on methods of funding and measuring engagement offered a vast range of perspectives. Creative entrepreneur Sparrow Hall, Ogilvy@Social’s VP Ryan Aynes, G2’s Nick Braccia and myself straddled concrete advise on scoring funding, successful pitching, qualitative and quantitative data, collaborating with brands as well as designing with and for the audience.…
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speaking of measuring engagement
A few weeks ago I was invited to speak at diy days New York City on ‘Measuring Engagement’. For their website I answered a few questions that were really inspiring. . What do you see as the most exciting development in storytelling today? Getting together to do it. What’s your wish for the future? More…
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struck
‘My proposition is at the beginning to formalize not what the paradigm of the world is but what the fundamental relations are which formalize, finally, the fact for a multiplicity to be the world. That is the point. After that, when you know what the transcendental is, what the discussion of the multiplicity of the…
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we are diversified beings
Hypermodernity. In which we PICK and FILTER our content, we don’t follow a common program, we DIY, CURATE and SKIP canon, we’re not part of a crowd, we’re part of many small scenes. We are a multitude of PARTIAL IDENTITIES and each FRAGMENT likes to CONNECT with a different MILEU. We don’t meet people that…
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fail better
I’ve been thinking a bit about imperfection lately. Imperfection makes us connect. In stories. In flows. In love. In stories? To explain imperfection in stories is easy: you provide a lose framework but leave intended gaps in the story, so the audience can step in and improve with their contributions. It’s a great way to…
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#484
Excited to be storyteller #484 at Cowbird!
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space-time, singularity, gravitational physics, and multiverses
I had this half-asleep epiphany during a long-haul flight and love this analogy: I might get my physics all wrong, but physicists speak of space-time as being a layer or a grid. Stephen Hawking calls it the fabric of space. He says that what we experience as gravity is caused by the dip in this…