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Dr Divine
At this year’s Burning Seed Festival in the Australian bush I played my alter ego Dr Divine. I can’t really say any of this was planned, but it’s a perfect example how some things just emerge bit by bit and they come together in a much more coherent way than I could have ever thought…
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Calabi-Yau and pendulum
No idea if this makes any sense. It’s an experiment in feeling deep knowledge. I just came across the Calabi-Yau principle while I read up on Cosmogeny. “Cosmogony (or cosmogeny) is any model concerning the coming-into-existence (i.e. origin) of either the cosmos (i.e. universe), or the so-called reality of sentient beings.[1]” The Wiki article refers to…
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Notes on the blockchain
I recently went to the Sydney Blockchain workshops and took some notes for beginners (like me). Overall it is about digitizing value transfer by cutting out the middle man, but new middle men already emerge (those who enable the blockchain). two functions for blockchain: register ownership and rails for transfering items function of smart contracts: machine…
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The Tech Pentagram Collaboration Game
Group size: 40 – 200 pax Playtime: 1h Purpose: The workshop is designed to give participants a visceral experience of just how quickly small teams of people can come up with world-changing ideas. It’s a possibility engine for your organisation. Description: This workshop explores and excavates the landscape of where technological innovation meets established industries…
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Be. Poietic. Punks.
Yoke Magazine and SW/TCHFest recently published a little piece I wrote. BE.POIETIC.PUNKS: WHAT IF YOUR REBEL HEART RAN FREE? We are at a point of transition. Of many transitions. Global politics, business, and technologies are shifting shape. And we are shifting with them. The question is: do structures form us, or do we form structures?…
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MOOC Sherlock and the Internet of Everything
I’m lecturing a rad MOOC! It’s called Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things (IoT) and because of its experimental setup we renamed MOOC a Massive Online Offline Collaboration. The MOOC itself is an ongoing prototype developed and run by Learn Do Share at Columbia University. With meet-ups in close to 20 cities, 1000+ collaborators…
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On Commons Transition and Mutual Value
For the MOOC that I lecture in (Sherlock and the Internet of Things) I created two short vids. The focus is on a few interrelated topics I have been researching for a while. Here’s the second vid and a short intro below. In our Sherlock MOOC, we create shared assets and raise questions about shared authorship and…
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On Poiesis and Collaborative Spaces
For the MOOC that I lecture in (Sherlock and the Internet of Things) I created two short vids. The focus is on a few interrelated topics I have been researching for a while. Here’s the first vid. In this part of our Sherlock lecture, I provide a meta reflection on the way we collaborate. One…
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PhD Creativity Unbound
TITLE Creativity Unbound – An Analysis of Open Collaboration between Experience Design and Poietic Practice ABSTRACT This thesis concerns social engagement at the intersection of open design and media technology. The study reflects on the practice of a group of creative entrepreneurs, who seek new methods and contexts for collaboration both online and offline. My case…
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The Tech Pentagram
This workshop explores and excavates the landscape of where technological innovation meets established industries such as media, manufacturing, energy and health. It’s a living, thinking event that uses game mechanics and future scenario design to unleash the imagination of its participants while teaching how to integrate concepts in relation to the systems they span. Group…
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Ich bin Wasser
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The Unorthodox PhD
This is the raw version of my thesis, which I changed quite a bit after I got the feedback that it’s a bit too creative and wild. Both versions are fully written. This one is more eclectic and transdisciplinary, the other is more orthodox and less complex (see other version here). TITLE Creativity Unbound: Parables of…