Jam Session: What Improvisation Can Teach Us About Design

hannah donovan, 3 september 2010 JAM SESSION: What Improvisation Can Teach Us About Design

Prelude Jamming with George Koller, 1988

Prelude Dr. Shinichi Suzuki

Prelude John La Porta

Prelude dev/fort

prelude What your brain does

prelude What your brain does Self-censoring

prelude What your brain does

prelude What your brain does Self-expression

How to improvise What lessons can we borrow?

How to improvise 1. Tools

How to improvise 2. Structure & framework

How to improvise 3. Roles

How to improvise 4. Communication & Expression

How to improvise 5. Trading parts

Why improvise? New thought patterns, practises, structures, and ways to act.

Why improvise Improvisation has been at the heart of every popular music movement.

why improvise? the romantic period

why improvise? hip hop

Why improvise Improvisation and read-write culture

Why improvise The decline of improvisation

Why improvise The Wurlitzer organ

Why improvise From tape to the internet

Why improvise Spontaneity and the real-time web

Why improvise Improvisation is easiest in our mother tongue

Finale Thanks! Contact @han on twitter / hannah@last.fm Credits & further reading: delicious.com/hannahdonovan/improvisation

by Hannah Donovan on Sep 08, 2010