Action for a sustainable world. Studio Tjeerd Veenhoven. Five Manifestos for the Creative Life. By Kirstin Butler How a numbered list can start a personal revolution.
Some days everyone needs a little extra encouragement. Technologywillsaveus - Welcome. Placemaking for Communities. A social movement for economic democracy. Main : GARETH KENNEDY. Meitheal. Timebank by e. LINEA: Katie Holten and Mariateresa Sartori Curated by Kathy Battista April 27 – May 31, 2014 Opening Reception: Sunday, April 27, 6-9 pm Public walk with the artists: Thursday, May 1, 4pm.
Creative Industries Support Network for Atlantic SMEs. The Rise of Collaboration. The basis of THNK, located near the heart of Amsterdam. Submit, Vote & Collaborate at Quirky. André Platteel. TEDxAtlanta - Doria Roberts - A Model Neighborhood General Store. Clay Shirky on New Book "Here Comes Everybody"
Homenatge a Catalunya II. Workspaces for the creative industry of Eindhoven. Off the grid: do 14 jun 2012, 23:25. What Jazz Soloists Know About Creative Collaboration. In jazz, creative input is egalitarian and meritocratic.
If you can “blow” you can play regardless of background, personal style, or anything else. Miles Davis famously wrote in his autobiography, “I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.” Do you add spice to your creative team? Do you contribute to the process of the whole? One of the defining elements of jazz is improvisation, the act of composing on the fly. Albania - TakingITGlobal. Projects 25.07. Social Design Notes. From an interview with Molly Crabapple: “Art can change the world, but seldom in the way it intends, and seldom the art that people think would have that effect.
I keep thinking of the Guy Fawkes mask Dave Gibbons drew. In discussions of what art is radical, mainstream comics are seldom brought up. And yet… I also think of an interview I read with Greenwald where he said that what convinced him of Snowden’s sincerity about bringing forward his revelations was when Snowden told him he was inspired by video games and comic books. There is radical, explicit art, but there’s also art that worms into the culture and decades or centuries later bursts forward in unimagined effects.” 28 January 2014 | LINK.
Socialdesignsite.com. Landshare - connecting growers to people with land to share. Com CreateAndShare. The Network For Social Change - Benefits. Members join for a variety of reasons.
It’s an interesting and effective way of giving Network membership helps us discover more interesting social change projects than we can find on our own. The Inverted Bike Shop. Transition Towns. A transition town is a grassroot community project that seeks to build resilience in response to peak oil,[1] climate destruction, and economic instability.
Local projects are usually based on the model's initial '12 ingredients' and later 'revised ingredients'.[2][3] The first initiative to use the name was Transition Town Totnes, founded in 2006. The movement is an example of socioeconomic localisation. The term, "transition town", was coined by Louise Rooney[4] and Catherine Dunne. The transition model can be applied to any place where people live. The generic term is "transition initiative", even though "transition town" is in common usage.[2] Between late 2006 and early 2007 the Transition Network was founded as a UK charity.
The Transition Network website contains a listing of the initiatives that have registered there.[6] While the focus and aims remain the same, the methods used to achieve these vary. In the United States, transition initiatives have sprung up in many communities. Social Spaces. By Edited by Tessy Britton. This book is a result of two years research into new types of community projects.
The twenty-eight authors have contributed perspectives and stories on how ideas of participating and initiating within communities is changing. These innovative views are largely informed through experiences gained creating fresh and imaginative opportunities for people to come together positively in their communities to learn, share and make. Hand Made is part of the Social Spaces project. "Ever wondered what happens when a bunch of passionate people come together to make something amazing happen? Self Publishing, Book Printing and Publishing Online. The Civic Crowd. 00:/ Whatworksblog. Creative/Collaborative. After 6 months of thinking *very hard* about the more controversial things of life, like democracy, creativity and the future of society, *quietly to myself*, I suddenly find myself almost ready to ‘think out loud’ again and publish some unfinished thoughts for others to consider. While this can feel very risky at times I consider that collaborative and public conversations around some of these difficult topics holds enormous value – so I invite you to agree, argue and criticise the ideas and suggestions below as strongly as possible – with a view that this process toughens thinking - hopefully making it more robust and useful.
Recap of earlier thinking In May I wrote a series of posts which promoted the idea of collaboration between citizens and government and other organisations. Below is the 'thoughts in progress' diagram which I ended up with in May, which attempted to describe these various complex processes - with small amendments. Current thinking. Community Lover's Guide to the Universe. The Young Foundation - A centre for Social Innovation. Smart urban stage.
Free Online Calendar for Families, Schools, Churches and more. Frog. Raumlabor berlin. Mission. This is Mediamatic. Since 1983 Mediamatic has been active as a cultural institution.
We are interested in cultural developments that foster new technologies, and new technologies that spur cultural developments. We have produced CD-ROMs and magazines, exhibitions, workshops, salons, dev camps and other get-togethers. We contribute to the development of software and art, and occasionally act as a publishing company. Mediamatic.net was launched in 1994 and has been a growing online social network since 2002. Past. Het Halve Werk. Business & Revenue Model Examples. Business Model of Doorsteps Doorsteps sells its online service via a subscription fee to agents and loan offices, but also takes a commission on services of other service providers, whom receive leads through the platform.
Business Model of Patients Like Me Patients like me offers a free health community service to its users. They make money by selling the data, generated by the community, to pharmaceutical companies. Business Model of Kaggle Kaggle makes money in two ways: With Kaggle competition, they receive a “listening fee”for each competition posted on the platform. Business Model of Friendsurance Friendsurance works as a broker between Policy Holders and existing Insurance Partners.
Business Model of Gympact. Project H Design. Tinktank. STBY. Global Sustainability Jam. On November 22, 2012, people interested in a design-based approach to creativity will meet at locations all over the globe. Everyone is welcome - service designers, object designers, sustainability experts, professors, business people, teachers, hackers, makers, artists, students, kids, mums and grandpas - you will form teams and work together for 48 hours to create brand-new real-world ideas which can make that little difference.
Or perhaps a big difference - it's up to you. Through the weekend, you'll be linked to other jammers at other sites all over the globe, working in different ways on different answers to the same challenge, sharing problems, advice, and insights. And on Sunday at 3pm, you will publish your results to the world. Join us at the Global Sustainability Jam 2012. Blog. 99U - It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen. What Mel Brooks Can Teach Us about “Group Flow” In 1949, the comedian Sid Caesar brought together a legendary group of comedy writers and created one of the biggest television hits of the 1950s, Your Show of Shows.
Caesar’s team included Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Neil Simon. It may have been the greatest writing staff in the history of television. They developed the show in a small suite of rooms on the sixth floor of 130 West 56th Street in Manhattan. Caesar created a fun and improvisational environment, where the team would riff on each other’s ideas constantly. Open Source Ecology. Unithings. Maker Spaces: Community Based Product Creation. One of the most exciting new ways to bring products to market has a very community oriented vision: they’re called Maker Spaces.
Much like Hacker Spaces, these are tool and knowledge sharing environments where people can experiment with product and business ideas, working on projects from prototyping and fabrication, to fine-tuning of products and even launching businesses. This video, shot by Self Made in Hawaii, is one of the better explorations of these new communal spaces, featuring an interview with Jerry Isdale, founder of Maui Makers. Maui Makers is one of about 500-1000 world-wide Maker Spaces that have been quickly cropping up. Maui Makers shipping container based workshop includes a ton of fun and useful tools for bringing Hawaiian inventors ideas to life. How to Start a Tool Library. It might seem a little risky to lend out a bunch of power tools to those who probably don’t know how to use them.
After all, tools can be dangerous, people can be idiots, and we live in an exceptionally litigious society. For some strange but very understandable reason, those concerns alone have been more than enough to effectively end many community tool libraries before they even start. iFixit: The free repair manual. On Changing the World. Change.org - Start, Join, and Win Campaigns for Change. Urban-Think Tank. DESIS Network. Heather Daam Home. MentorMob - Learn What You Want, Teach What You Love. Communities of practice.
The term “community of practice” is of relatively recent coinage, even though the phenomenon it refers to is age-old. The concept has turned out to provide a useful perspective on knowing and learning. A growing number of people and organizations in various sectors are now focusing on communities of practice as a key to improving their performance.This brief and general introduction examines what communities of practice are and why researchers and practitioners in so many different contexts find them useful as an approach to knowing and learning. What are communities of practice? Note that this definition allows for, but does not assume, intentionality: learning can be the reason the community comes together or an incidental outcome of member’s interactions.
Not everything called a community is a community of practice. The domain: A community of practice is not merely a club of friends or a network of connections between people. What do communities of practice look like? Organizations.
Amplifying Creative Communities.