What happens when people come together to take collective action without needing traditional organisational and institutional structures? What tools and strategies do we need for these “Networks for Good” to thrive? In this workshop, designer, storyteller, and community-builder Lee-Sean Huang (Purpose) will explore these questions by drawing from his own experiences building international networks like UX for Good, The Awesome Foundation, and Wisdom Hackers.

1. Building Networks for Good
@leesean / @purpose
#CAPS15eu
Building networks for good

2. Building Networks for Good
@leesean / @purpose

3. Lee Sean

4. Purpose builds movements and new power
models to tackle the world's biggest problems.

5. User
Experience
Strategic
Storytelling
Community
Management
Movement
Building
Community
Centered
Design

6. "what happens when
people are given the
tools to do things
together, without
needing traditional
organizational structures"

7. Make joining easy
Create personal value
Subdivide the community

9. What can we learn from
misfits and pirates?

12. UX
Urban eXperiment

13. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/26/france.artnews

14. http://www.wired.com/2012/01/ff_ux/

15. Movement > Organization
Local / Global

16. MiLES (Made in the Lower East Side)

17. MiLES (Made in the Lower East Side)

18. MiLES (Made in the Lower East Side)

19. MiLES (Made in the Lower East Side)

20. MiLES (Made in the Lower East Side)

21. 21

23. Movement > Organization

24. The Night Heron
by Sextant.Works

25. “The Night Heron” photo by Yoni Brook

26. “The Night Heron” photo by Yoni Brook

27. “The Night Heron” photo by Yoni Brook

28. “The Night Heron” photo by Yoni Brook

29. “The Night Heron” photo by Yoni Brook

30. “The Night Heron” photo by Yoni Brook

31. “The Night Heron” photo by Yoni Brook

32. Informality
Independence

33. Share
“Source Code”
Expand
Org Chart
>

34. @AwesomeFound

35. Building Networks for Good
@leesean / @purpose / @foossa_com

36. Some Awesome Projects
• http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/nyc
• http://gabriellalevine.com/SNEEL
• http://www.theguardian.com/stage/video/2014/nov/04/
dreary-coast-brooklyn
• http://urbanmatterinc.com/silent-lights/
• http://www.theacousticguitarproject.com/

37. 10 Trustees
$1000 / Month
“Awesome” Projects

38. Action > Consensus
Consensus > Voting

40. Call to Action
Start an Awesome Foundation
chapter in your community
join@awesomefoundation.org

41. @WisdomHackers

44. Look backward
to move forward

45. Look inward to
to innovate outward

49. wisdomhackers.com

50. @UXforGood

51. “It’s like Doctors Without
Borders for designers”

52. “The design dream team
that money can’t buy”

53. How can we enrich lives or
working musicians?

61. How can we grow
mindfulness in schools?

67. Leverage outsider
intelligence

68. Document!
Document!
Document!

69. How can we turn feelings
into action?

75. inzovucurve.org

76. Networks for Good
embody New Power values
#NewPower

77. http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_heimans_what_new_power_looks_like?language=en

78. https://hbr.org/2014/12/understanding-new-power

79. CURRENT
NEW POWER
CURRENCY
OLD POWER
by @htimms & @jeremyheimans

80. CURRENT
MADE BY MANY
NEW POWER
CURRENCY
HELD BY FEW
OLD POWER
by @htimms & @jeremyheimans

81. CURRENT
MADE BY MANY
UPLOADS
NEW POWER
CURRENCY
HELD BY FEW
DOWNLOADS
OLD POWER
by @htimms & @jeremyheimans

82. CURRENT
MADE BY MANY
OPEN
PEER-DRIVEN
UPLOADS
SHARES
NEW POWER
CURRENCY
HELD BY FEW
CLOSED
LEADER-DRIVEN
DOWNLOADS
COMMANDS
OLD POWER
by @htimms & @jeremyheimans

83. OLD POWER VALUES NEW POWER VALUES
by @htimms & @jeremyheimans

84. Start Small
Stay in Beta

85. MVP
Minimum Viable Product

86. MVB
Minimum Viable Bureaucracy

87. MUE
Minimum Unit of Engagement

88. ENGAGEMENT
COMMITMENT OVER TIME
VIEW
LIKE
JOIN
SHARE
CREATE
PURCHASE/
DONATE
ATTEND
Commitment Curve

89. ENGAGEMENT
COMMITMENT OVER TIME
VIEW
LIKE
JOIN
SHARE
CREATE
PURCHASE/
DONATE
ATTEND
Commitment Curve
A few people are the most engaged, but
this is a feature of social systems, not a bug

90. Build community before
you have anything

94. Build community before
you have anything…even if
you don’t know what to do
with them

95. Bubble Tea Diplomacy

96. Taiwan Sunflower Movement

97. spark
signal/story
space
structures
Adapted from Christina Xu: https://medium.com/chrysaora-weekly/signal-space-structure-designing-for-
communities-of-interest-d09ad8454f57

98. Building Networks for Good
@leesean / @purpose