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The Cooper Journal: Better together; the practice of successful creative collaboration
Savant. Rockstar. Gifted genius. Many of the ways we talk about creative work only capture the brilliance of a single individual. But creativity also thrives on diversity, tension, sharing, and collaboration.
DESIGN DIALOGUES
Boxes and Arrows is a great source for the publication of in-depth discussions of ideas and concepts emerging in the user experience community. Originally more of an information architects how-to, nuts & bolts go-to service, it has grown into a true eJournal with good editorial review and a “real” community of readers that know each other (supra-virtual?). EiC Christina Wodtke and editor Austin Govella have done a great job of encouraging publications beyond the expected scope in the IA readership.
As the guest last week of Zurich University of the Arts I set the following task to a group of sixteen masters students: “Create the plan for a social harvest festival that will reconnect Zurich with its natural ecosystems and grassroots social innovators.” The idea was to demonstrate, in practice, and at a city-wide scale, how to combine the low-energy design principles of permaculture, with the metabolic energy of social innovation. A first delightful discovery: there are no fewer than twelve working farms within Zurich city limits – and one of them has a thriving herd of buffaloes (from which comes Swiss mozzarella). Several of the farms also provide educational experiences for school groups; indeed, demand for such courses is more than than the farms can cope with. The city, which owns the land, requires all these farms to produce organically; (ten percent of all Swiss farms, 5,700 of them, are certified organic).
Doors of Perception weblog
Welcome to Symbionomics | Symbionomics: The Film
While many see the recession as another blip in the business cycle, we see a deeper transformation- perhaps as profound as the Industrial Revolution. Whether we are talking about fundamental notions of property or that which motivates us to work in the first place, today new social patterns are emerging that better serve our networked world. The story we are telling is one of hope and new possibility. While many conventional institutions are crumbling, in this moment there is a unique chance for humanity to fundamentally reinvent its presence on this planet. For the next year, we’ll be devoting each month to a different pattern, trend, or big idea.
Here’s to continue sharing from the math/programming/process/spiritual-space in me that peaked for the time being in the POOL / ALGO concept paper from mid may. i feel approaching a higher level of synergy on the blueprint between the two sides…. and in the spirit of this blog – i am sharing in the middle of my own process to challenge myself in formulating it. if you can’t follow me, don’t worry… i can’t follow myself on this ;) I am not an educated mathematician nor a programmer so people who know that stuff might find parts of it obvious or weird to look at it this way. So this is me pulling stuff together across the various fields that are alive in me… i am not sure if it’s ripe already – both in me and outside. but now that i started writing i guess it wants to come out :)
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Por: Juan Antonio Hoyos. Ya había contemplado en este blog el cambio de imagen de Starbucks , su nuevo logo, simplificación de su ya conocida imagen, renovó la marca de una manera muy inteligente y especial. A algunos les gustó a otro simplemente no. Pues bien, para continuar con el esfuerzo de actualizar la marca y hacerla más atractiva, la famosa cadena de cafés de la Sirena verde y la estrella de David ha decidido comenzar la construcción de tiendas de café especialmente diseñadas. Navegando en blogs de diseño encontré estas dos cafeterías que me han llamado mucho la atención por su estilo vanguardista. La primera en Fukuoka ciudad costera al oriente de Japón.Variations on normal by Dominic Wilcox
During this year’s Milan design week I will be spending 6 days at the Making Together event in Ventura Lambrate. The theme of the event is participation and collaboration and I was asked to come up with an idea of what I could make there. My project is titled ‘Between your thoughts and mine’ and attempts to symbolise the connection between two people sharing their knowledge and ideas. It is inspired by the knowledge that our mind holds all the things we’ve ever seen and experienced, and ideas come about by linking these apparently unconnected things together.
agency :: the capacity of an agent (a person or other entity) to act in a world The concepts of individual and group agency are recurring themes around our virtual water cooler discussions of late. As eager change agents, edgeriders, and transitioners to a new world, we’re all more than blessed with big ideas. What many of us lack is the ability to reign in the ever expanding “cone of possibility” into a laser beam, pick a specific actionable project, and execute. Instead of implementing ideas, much time is wasted pitching them at each other, with no discernible path towards action. If this is the case, then those of us who have project ideas and a true hunger for manifesting them have a pathway forward.
emergent by design
Flexibility in the era of networks and sustainability. There are two interesting different interpretations of the term flexibility: flexibility as openness , that is, able to allow a variety of uses; and flexibility as evolutionary potential , that is, able to change in time in relation to context alterations. Two signs that seem to me to be very useful to face the double transition with which we have to confront nowadays: the underway one, toward the society of networks and knowledge and the necessary one, which has still a long way to go, towards sustainability. Referring to design, openness and evolutionary potential are, in my opinion, interesting topics at all levels: from the one that concerns the simplest material products to the one related with the most complex socio-technical systems. In the following notes I will focus, specifically, on the socio-technical systems, that is, the conjunction of products and services on which our life is based on…
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REAL TOMATO
For years there's been a secret, unspeakable war in the Greater Boston area. It has everything to do with balloons. In the 1960's balloons got popular in Somerville and Medford as the kids would buy them, blow them up, and pop them to try and scare older people and animals. This tradition is still going strong today. One store bucked the trend, and invented balloons that wouldn't make a loud sound when popped.
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