An annotated version of my talk on Designing the Future from dConstruct 2015 in Brighton, delivered on 11th September. The talk explores the danger with living in a Superhero-saturated culture, lessons we can draw from Interstellar, and expanded ideas on what Metadesign, designing ways in which design can evolve by itself, can be viewed and put into practice.
A talk comprised of various threads of thought from various Smithery projects across the last eighteen months, given at the open house at Loft Digital as part of London Technology Week. Starts with some conceptual thinking, ends with some examples and approaches for you to try at home...
These are the slides from my talk at Google Firestarters on 5th September 2017 in London. It's about two tools in particular we use at Smithery (www.smithery.com) to break the patterns that we find can emerge and strangle how people approach their work. The content is a compressed version of some of the material from the Innovation & Future Thinking course I led at IED in Barcelona this summer.
A talk I prepared for this year's class on the IPA Excellence Diploma, on innovation, information, strategic design, and making tools that help you work through that process. It's mapping out a journey from when I did the course myself, through the interim thinking and ideas behind Smithery, up to the end of last year.
A talk I gave on to the brilliant young people currently on the Squared course, about the social web, marketing, and collaborative ways of working around this. Learn more about Squared here - https://plus.google.com/+WeareSquared/posts
What are the tools and approaches we need to think about brands in the age of the intermet? A presentation for the talent accelerator programme Google Squared in London.
I am interested in developing executive training or professional development workshops that function as 'surprise' and 'mystery' tours and collective performance art.
I have brought a squash to the class last Friday (as a form of improvisation and surprise).
In particular, students like puzzles (the student who gets the answer first gets a dark chocolate).
If you view it as a slideshow and try to guess the answers to the puzzles, then the experience might be quite fun:)
You can find the description of this class below.
In this class that is designed as a collective performance art, we review some of the biggest names in the landscape of entertainment, creativity, and business. From space to magic, from basketball to fashion, from animation to computer games, from film music to architecture we have a trans-disciplinary tour of storytelling and creative careers. We have a series of exercises in asset creation and imagination. We have a lot of puzzles. We dream about the university of the future. However, the main actor in all of this experience (the connecting thread/anchor) is a squash.
A talk comprised of various threads of thought from various Smithery projects across the last eighteen months, given at the open house at Loft Digital as part of London Technology Week. Starts with some conceptual thinking, ends with some examples and approaches for you to try at home...
These are the slides from my talk at Google Firestarters on 5th September 2017 in London. It's about two tools in particular we use at Smithery (www.smithery.com) to break the patterns that we find can emerge and strangle how people approach their work. The content is a compressed version of some of the material from the Innovation & Future Thinking course I led at IED in Barcelona this summer.
A talk I prepared for this year's class on the IPA Excellence Diploma, on innovation, information, strategic design, and making tools that help you work through that process. It's mapping out a journey from when I did the course myself, through the interim thinking and ideas behind Smithery, up to the end of last year.
A talk I gave on to the brilliant young people currently on the Squared course, about the social web, marketing, and collaborative ways of working around this. Learn more about Squared here - https://plus.google.com/+WeareSquared/posts
What are the tools and approaches we need to think about brands in the age of the intermet? A presentation for the talent accelerator programme Google Squared in London.
I am interested in developing executive training or professional development workshops that function as 'surprise' and 'mystery' tours and collective performance art.
I have brought a squash to the class last Friday (as a form of improvisation and surprise).
In particular, students like puzzles (the student who gets the answer first gets a dark chocolate).
If you view it as a slideshow and try to guess the answers to the puzzles, then the experience might be quite fun:)
You can find the description of this class below.
In this class that is designed as a collective performance art, we review some of the biggest names in the landscape of entertainment, creativity, and business. From space to magic, from basketball to fashion, from animation to computer games, from film music to architecture we have a trans-disciplinary tour of storytelling and creative careers. We have a series of exercises in asset creation and imagination. We have a lot of puzzles. We dream about the university of the future. However, the main actor in all of this experience (the connecting thread/anchor) is a squash.
Leveraging for Legacy and Cultivating New Literacies: Region One Texas "Using...Amy Burvall
my keynote for the "Using Technology to Make a Difference" conference in Texas. Note that the videos will not play and it is video intensive, so please feel free to join the G+ community at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102951818296790118749 or contact me.
Thinking Outside the Lines with #newliteracies (Santa Rosa Summit with EdTEch...Amy Burvall
How can we model and help our students develop skills in the new literacies of the digital world? In this workshop we explored the so-called "new" or "emerging" literacies - things like the nuances of hashtags and how to use them for creative production, video blogging as an effective alternative to the written essay, microcontent, and visual thinking and media.
***please note that the VIDEOS will not play in this version
See some of the vlogging videos in this community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Creativity BLC15Amy Burvall
***please note videos will not play
“There is no win, there is no fail, there is only make” (John Cage). One of the greatest challenges is developing ideas, finding time, and offering opportunities for students work on creative projects. More importantly, how do we move beyond the “assignment” stage and encourage students to be intrinsically motivated to make beautiful things on a regular basis? How do we foster the shift from consumption to production? Even if you don’t have the luxury of offering a project-based curriculum, you can still develop a steady diet of ongoing, “back-burner” projects that gets student to “dare to make and share”. This session will explore ways to instill a creative culture in your classroom, with everything from low-entry point crowdsourced uses of social media to the #showyourwork movement which asks students to be overt about their design thinking, creative process, and troubleshooting and contribute to collective knowledge. At the heart of personalized learning is creative freedom, but students often need a spark of inspiration, a design brief, or mentorship to get them on the road to making. In this workshop we will get our creative juices flowing and explore trends in combinatorial and crowdsourced creativity facilitated by social media, as well as the role of analogue elements in digital makery. You will have the opportunity to create and perform, as well as develop projects for future use. We’ll look at teacher-as-creator and the importance of transparency and curation in facilitating creativity in the classroom. All participants will leave with a "goodie bag"- a membership to an ever-growing digital community of resources and dialogue centering around creativity in the classroom.
Lecture 9 - New Paradigms, New Technologies, and Your Asset Creation - 6 Ma...Fahri Karakas
In this lecture, we will go over a wide variety of topics that will help you in your journey of asset creation.
We will cover the following topics:
-5 Seconds Rule: Do It Now
-Languishing, Happiness, and Creativity
-Happiness Chemicals: Dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, endorphin
-Hackathon: Paradigm Shifts and New Assets
-Metaverse, Avatars, Digital Twins, AR, VR
- Stripe Success Story
-Exponential Thinking & The Wealth of Jeff Bezos in Rice
- Disruption Here
-Crypto, Bitcoin, Blockchain & NFTs
- Who is Satoshi?
- Dogecoin is not a joke!
- Everything is weird and accelerated (nonlinearity and singularity)
- Elon Musk on Saturday Night Live
- Beeple's 69m Dollar Digital Artwork!
- Become a Renaissance Person
- Conduct 10,000 Experiments
- What is Bitclout?
- Web 3.0
- Gen Z is Entrepreneurial
- YOLO Economy
- Top Media Brands and Franchises: Pokemon, Hello Kitty, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Marvel, Spiderman, Batman, Barbie, Lord of the Rings, James Bond
- Hero's Journey: Your Call to Adventure: Jump to the Unknown
- Stories of Your Life
-Storytelling & Content Creation
- Ikigai
-Entrepreneurial Thinking
- Entrepreneur Revolution
-Shark Tank Exercise
19 Mayıs Türkiye Sunumu - Üniversite Öğrencilerine Özel - Eğitim SlaytlarıFahri Karakas
Gelecek, Teknoloji, Hayallerin ve Sen - 19 Mayıs 2021
www.kubist.net
19 Mayıs Gençlik ve Spor Bayramında Üniversiteli Gençlere Özel Seminer
İngitere’de University of East Anglia’da Doçent olarak görev yapmakta olan Fahri Karakaş ile birlikte..
Gelecek Teknoloji Hayallerin ve Sen!
Bu seminerde şu sorulara cevap arayacağız:
- Dünya nasıl değişiyor ve teknoloji son hız nereye gidiyor?
- Yapay zeka çağında kariyerinizi ve geleceğinizi nasıl yönetirsiniz?
- İnternette kendi varlığınızı, markanızı, eserlerinizi, ve içerik imparatorluğunuzu nasıl oluşturursunuz?
- Girişimci ve sanatçı olarak kendi Rönesans’ınızı nasıl kurabilirsiniz?
Kendi hayatımdan gözlemler ve deneyimler ışığında bu sorulara cevaplar sunacağım.
Küresel bir perspektifle bir ilham ve hayal yolculuğuna çıkıyoruz, hazır mısınız?
**Şanslı ilk 100 kişi seminere Zoom üzerinden katılabiliyor olacak. Yayın ayrıca canlı olarak IT Governance Turkey Youtube kanalı üzerinden gerçekleştirilecektir.
**Katılım ve duyurular için Telegram Grubumuza katılabilirsiniz.
https://t.me/kubistnetdijital
Yeni Düşünme Şekilleri ve Başarı Hikayeleri
Kendi İçerik İmparatorluğunu Kuracaksın
Girişimci ve Sanatçı Olacaksın
Kendi Rönesansını Kuracaksın
English Abstract:
I Gave A Presentation For Turkish Youth Today on 19 May 2021.
We Celebrated The 19 May Youth And Sports Day In Turkey Today.
In this presentation, I try to cover a lot of topics including the following:
- Hackathon: New Technologies and Paradigms
- Artificial Intelligence
- Metaverse
- Crypto, Bitcoin, Blockchain ve NFT
- Space Age and Mars Generation
- Entrepreneurship
- Content Creation
- Internet Content Empires
- Social Media Platforms
- You are a storyteller
- You are an entrepreneur
- You are an artist
NOTE: The videos in this presentation have not been enabled to play
“The tag is the soul of the Internet”, says Derrick de Kerckhove in The Augmented Mind. How can educators exploit the use of tagging content in a variety of mediums in order to help students practice these new literacies and understand the workings of the Web? In this session we’ll look at both practical and creative (or “meta”) tagging and explore ways to organize a course in Twitter, G+, Storify, Instagram, and Wordpress blogs. We’ll explore playful uses of tags to recontextualize, add commentary, or create art, poetry, and literature. The hashtag is a powerful device of the organization of knowledge, but it can be maximized for critical and divergent thinking.
*this is a presentation with hands-on activities. Please bring a mobile device and, if you wish, a laptop.
Building Learning Communities: Tapping Passion and Reflection for Learning - ...Amy Burvall
Originally presented at November Learning's Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston, MA, July 2014. Please note videos will not play in Slideshare but you can find most of them in the Vlogging G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
Leveraging for Legacy and Cultivating New Literacies: Region One Texas "Using...Amy Burvall
my keynote for the "Using Technology to Make a Difference" conference in Texas. Note that the videos will not play and it is video intensive, so please feel free to join the G+ community at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102951818296790118749 or contact me.
Thinking Outside the Lines with #newliteracies (Santa Rosa Summit with EdTEch...Amy Burvall
How can we model and help our students develop skills in the new literacies of the digital world? In this workshop we explored the so-called "new" or "emerging" literacies - things like the nuances of hashtags and how to use them for creative production, video blogging as an effective alternative to the written essay, microcontent, and visual thinking and media.
***please note that the VIDEOS will not play in this version
See some of the vlogging videos in this community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Creativity BLC15Amy Burvall
***please note videos will not play
“There is no win, there is no fail, there is only make” (John Cage). One of the greatest challenges is developing ideas, finding time, and offering opportunities for students work on creative projects. More importantly, how do we move beyond the “assignment” stage and encourage students to be intrinsically motivated to make beautiful things on a regular basis? How do we foster the shift from consumption to production? Even if you don’t have the luxury of offering a project-based curriculum, you can still develop a steady diet of ongoing, “back-burner” projects that gets student to “dare to make and share”. This session will explore ways to instill a creative culture in your classroom, with everything from low-entry point crowdsourced uses of social media to the #showyourwork movement which asks students to be overt about their design thinking, creative process, and troubleshooting and contribute to collective knowledge. At the heart of personalized learning is creative freedom, but students often need a spark of inspiration, a design brief, or mentorship to get them on the road to making. In this workshop we will get our creative juices flowing and explore trends in combinatorial and crowdsourced creativity facilitated by social media, as well as the role of analogue elements in digital makery. You will have the opportunity to create and perform, as well as develop projects for future use. We’ll look at teacher-as-creator and the importance of transparency and curation in facilitating creativity in the classroom. All participants will leave with a "goodie bag"- a membership to an ever-growing digital community of resources and dialogue centering around creativity in the classroom.
Lecture 9 - New Paradigms, New Technologies, and Your Asset Creation - 6 Ma...Fahri Karakas
In this lecture, we will go over a wide variety of topics that will help you in your journey of asset creation.
We will cover the following topics:
-5 Seconds Rule: Do It Now
-Languishing, Happiness, and Creativity
-Happiness Chemicals: Dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, endorphin
-Hackathon: Paradigm Shifts and New Assets
-Metaverse, Avatars, Digital Twins, AR, VR
- Stripe Success Story
-Exponential Thinking & The Wealth of Jeff Bezos in Rice
- Disruption Here
-Crypto, Bitcoin, Blockchain & NFTs
- Who is Satoshi?
- Dogecoin is not a joke!
- Everything is weird and accelerated (nonlinearity and singularity)
- Elon Musk on Saturday Night Live
- Beeple's 69m Dollar Digital Artwork!
- Become a Renaissance Person
- Conduct 10,000 Experiments
- What is Bitclout?
- Web 3.0
- Gen Z is Entrepreneurial
- YOLO Economy
- Top Media Brands and Franchises: Pokemon, Hello Kitty, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Marvel, Spiderman, Batman, Barbie, Lord of the Rings, James Bond
- Hero's Journey: Your Call to Adventure: Jump to the Unknown
- Stories of Your Life
-Storytelling & Content Creation
- Ikigai
-Entrepreneurial Thinking
- Entrepreneur Revolution
-Shark Tank Exercise
19 Mayıs Türkiye Sunumu - Üniversite Öğrencilerine Özel - Eğitim SlaytlarıFahri Karakas
Gelecek, Teknoloji, Hayallerin ve Sen - 19 Mayıs 2021
www.kubist.net
19 Mayıs Gençlik ve Spor Bayramında Üniversiteli Gençlere Özel Seminer
İngitere’de University of East Anglia’da Doçent olarak görev yapmakta olan Fahri Karakaş ile birlikte..
Gelecek Teknoloji Hayallerin ve Sen!
Bu seminerde şu sorulara cevap arayacağız:
- Dünya nasıl değişiyor ve teknoloji son hız nereye gidiyor?
- Yapay zeka çağında kariyerinizi ve geleceğinizi nasıl yönetirsiniz?
- İnternette kendi varlığınızı, markanızı, eserlerinizi, ve içerik imparatorluğunuzu nasıl oluşturursunuz?
- Girişimci ve sanatçı olarak kendi Rönesans’ınızı nasıl kurabilirsiniz?
Kendi hayatımdan gözlemler ve deneyimler ışığında bu sorulara cevaplar sunacağım.
Küresel bir perspektifle bir ilham ve hayal yolculuğuna çıkıyoruz, hazır mısınız?
**Şanslı ilk 100 kişi seminere Zoom üzerinden katılabiliyor olacak. Yayın ayrıca canlı olarak IT Governance Turkey Youtube kanalı üzerinden gerçekleştirilecektir.
**Katılım ve duyurular için Telegram Grubumuza katılabilirsiniz.
https://t.me/kubistnetdijital
Yeni Düşünme Şekilleri ve Başarı Hikayeleri
Kendi İçerik İmparatorluğunu Kuracaksın
Girişimci ve Sanatçı Olacaksın
Kendi Rönesansını Kuracaksın
English Abstract:
I Gave A Presentation For Turkish Youth Today on 19 May 2021.
We Celebrated The 19 May Youth And Sports Day In Turkey Today.
In this presentation, I try to cover a lot of topics including the following:
- Hackathon: New Technologies and Paradigms
- Artificial Intelligence
- Metaverse
- Crypto, Bitcoin, Blockchain ve NFT
- Space Age and Mars Generation
- Entrepreneurship
- Content Creation
- Internet Content Empires
- Social Media Platforms
- You are a storyteller
- You are an entrepreneur
- You are an artist
NOTE: The videos in this presentation have not been enabled to play
“The tag is the soul of the Internet”, says Derrick de Kerckhove in The Augmented Mind. How can educators exploit the use of tagging content in a variety of mediums in order to help students practice these new literacies and understand the workings of the Web? In this session we’ll look at both practical and creative (or “meta”) tagging and explore ways to organize a course in Twitter, G+, Storify, Instagram, and Wordpress blogs. We’ll explore playful uses of tags to recontextualize, add commentary, or create art, poetry, and literature. The hashtag is a powerful device of the organization of knowledge, but it can be maximized for critical and divergent thinking.
*this is a presentation with hands-on activities. Please bring a mobile device and, if you wish, a laptop.
Building Learning Communities: Tapping Passion and Reflection for Learning - ...Amy Burvall
Originally presented at November Learning's Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston, MA, July 2014. Please note videos will not play in Slideshare but you can find most of them in the Vlogging G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
The ‘web of things’ or ‘internet of things' simply describes the relationship between human beings and everyday objects using the internet.
A world where lighting is controlled by the genre of music being played and our fridges notifying us that we need more juice to replace the vitamins lost on the cycle commute is a very real one. The ‘web of things’ is happening.
An era of devices that intertwine with our clothing and bodies (wearable technology) is upon us.
If you are to cast your minds back to 2010 and the release of the iPad and recall the cries of ‘Why? Why would we need such a product? How does this help me in life?’
And look at us now, eagerly awaiting the next iteration and it’s accompanying accessories.
The same thing will inevitably happen when the impending wearable technologies crash over us. Google Glass, Samsung and Apple’s smart watches will change the way we consume products, socialise and work.
This week’s Identica Insight delves under the skin of the wearable tech world.
Mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs are tricky operations. By keeping these seven crucial questions in mind, companies can ensure that their brand doesn't get lost in the clutter.
A MONTH OF IDEAS - OCTOBER 2015
by the Strategic Planning of Brand Union Paris
1 month, almost 30 days of good ideas, funny things, beautiful pictures or brillant initiatives that triggered our attention and that we wanted to share with you...
See you next month.
A MONTH OF IDEAS - SEPTEMBRE 2015
par le Planning Stratégique de Brand Union Paris
Un mois, 30 jours ou presque, autant de bonnes idées, de drôles de choses, de belles images ou de brillantes initiatives qui nous ont interpellées, et qu'on voulait partager avec vous...
Rendez-vous le moins prochain.
We’re seeing a rise in anomalistic design.
Design that inspires or discourages
within an instant. A conscious effort is
being made by some brands to not
aesthetically conform. Anti-design.
These examples bask in their unusual
morphology and design. Weird but wonderful, this micro-trend certainly challenges consumers to think again about what we pass as ‘normal’.
A MONTH OF IDEAS - MAY/JUNE 2016
by the Strategic Planning of Brand Union Paris
1 month, almost 30 days of good ideas, funny things, beautiful pictures or brillant initiatives that triggered our attention and that we wanted to share with you...
See you next month.
Identica Bitesize 170114 Health on the HorizonMichael Nash
IT’S THE BEGINNING OF A NEW YEAR WHICH MEANS GYMS ARE OVERCROWDED AND NEW DIETS ARE PAINFULLY BEDDING IN.
But what will health mean to us all in 2014? We know that consumers are increasingly knowledgeable, regarding their own health and actively taking preventative measures to manage it.
Identica have highlighted five trends that will impact many of us as we strive to monitor and improve our personal health.
A MONTH OF IDEAS - NOVEMBER 2015
by the Strategic Planning of Brand Union Paris
1 month, almost 30 days of good ideas, funny things, beautiful pictures or brillant initiatives that triggered our attention and that we wanted to share with you...
See you next month.
"IMPLAND: AN ALIEN UTOPIA
A 40th Anniversary Retrospective"
Scott Baker Manuscript (46 pp.)
KIRKUS BOOK REVIEW
In this illustrated SF book, a writer revisits the alien world that he imagined and built throughout his childhood.
Baker first conceived of the Imps when he was only 3 years old. These intriguing aliens, who reach all of 1 foot as adults, somewhat resemble beans, with noses almost as long as their spindly legs. They live inside a climate-controlled cavern in "Imp World"-one of the 25 moons of the planet Obor in the Milky Way galaxy. In this volume, the author looks back at different "editions" of his Imp writings, dating from when he was a child in the 1960s through his early 20s. He compiles old, sketched diagrams of spaceships and Imp World as well as typewritten specifics on the aliens' biology, ecology, government, and transportation system. Much of the material is gleefully inventive; all Imps are born female, and those whose eggs are fertilized eventually turn male. They are various colors, although "Color Changing Tanks" allow an Imp to choose a different one. The author's drawings are wonderfully and meticulously detailed, from the Imps' anatomy to the layout of the Surface Center, which rests between a subterranean city and Imp World's surface. But in other instances, this world mirrors familiar sights on Earth. Additional creatures on Imp World, for example, include the electric snake, the striped bird, and tyris, which are fish. Imps get around in floating trucks and buses and even simple boats and submarines. Baker cohesively ties together all of the alien facts and diagrams and earnestly discusses his decadeslong creation. But his retrospection comes with a bit of welcome humor, as when he notes the parts he ""never got around to doing,"" and some clear sources of inspiration (for instance, maglev trains and the author's fascination with caverns). In the end, Baker has the foundation of an SF saga that's waiting for a story and a hero.
An entertaining retrospective that explores a smart and innovative alien civilization."
Reality Is Relative - The practicalities of designing for anyone besides your...Lauren Serota
Fire engine red.
If you can picture this, you’ve been exposed, at some point in your life, to a fire engine. Now, imagine you hadn’t.
The shape of each person’s reality is determined by her individual experiences. This perspective determines what we do and don’t do, what is familiar or frightening, and how we engage with the world around us. Modern designers are expert in empathy; the danger of empathy alone is its dissolution of difference. Appropriately designed products, services, and policies come from acknowledging the unique and distinctive realities of others. Lauren will be sharing stories and frameworks on how she has reconciled these complexities of seeing in a variety of projects—from designing financial services for the rural poor in Myanmar to building strategies for corporate collaboration in Australia.
Writing The Science Fiction Film: Where do you get your ideas from?robgrant
The lazy way of coming up with science fiction film ideas is to take any an existing movie title and add ..in space! to it. Like High Noon ..in space! (Outland) or Jaws ..in space! (Alien). It’s become a tried and trusted method, but while it has led to the occasional classic - no-one is going to argue against Alien being a sci-fi classic - there are a lot more films in the mediocre pile.
So where do we find new ideas ripe for science fiction?
Well as you might expect they’re all around you, all you have to do is start looking, but it requires that you leave your SF prejudices at the door and open your eyes to the wider world of sci-fi storytelling.
This workshop looks at sources of new ideas, basic tools to gather and store them, explores exercises for taking an idea and turning it into a story and we’ll actually take an idea and break a story with the audience in the room.
Gallery of Student WritingShernel WoodmanPrinciples of Design.docxshericehewat
Gallery of Student Writing
Shernel Woodman
Principles of Design
“Train of Thought” by Leo Bridle
Simple Outline
“A Journey for Love”
I. Leo Bridle and Ben Thomas were the film makers.
a. I believe they are in their late 20s and early 30s, and they graduated from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.
b. From the United Kingdom.
II. The basic structure of the artwork is Film.
a. Material used was digital compositing software and all the animations were done by hand and not the compositing software.
b. The subject of the seemed to be the young artist and he seemed to have been in search of someone. Everything seemed to be between and a gray/sepia scale with a design using cut outs and wooden toys.
III. I think this whole film was based on love.
a. My 1st idea is that he is trying to find the woman he loved. He may have seen her before at the station and drawn her out of memory and may have come back to find her there. When he didn’t, he hopped on the train in search for her only to come up empty. I believe he used his drawing pad as some sort of map as to where she may have been. When he doesn’t find her, he returns to the station once again and this time, he finds her. He then realizes that she may be an artist as well and may have gone through the same processes to find each other.
b. My 2nd idea is that he may have drawn her as well as the other drawings in his book subconsciously and realized this was a woman he had to meet. He then returns to the train station, which is the setting of his drawing. When she doesn’t come, he hops on the train and then goes in search for the woman that he loves. When he doesn’t find her he returns back to the station and that is where he finally sees her. They go towards each other and hold hands, seeming like they both went through the same measures to find each other.
I think the way the film makers used photography and film made this a very interesting form of media. Everything looked cartooned and real at the same time. The train station and the train themselves looked like they were made out of wooden toys and the people all looked like cut outs that were animated to look like they were moving, inside of their cut out frames. This was a well done film and they filmmakers did a wonderful job. I must say it sure caught my attention.
Linda Hoffman-Ostroff
Techniques, Materials, and Form
Introduction to the Drinking Maiden Exhibition
Story Style
"A Maiden in Born"
My color is milky white and thus a maiden is born... I was created by the great sculptural artist Ernst Wenck in 1901. He created my soft white body by using his strong meticulous hands. He is indeed an artist. I was created in a time when conservatism was not very popular. Because of my intricate detail and the delicate image I carry I became a model for porcelain miniatures.
If you study my structure you see the qualities that may have lead to my continued popularity. I lean forward and you see the muscle tone of my leg by the light tha ...
Talk given at the Open Data Institute in London on various visions of Data in science fiction. The text based slides contain the text of the talk from the script. Some pictures are clickable to online links.
The opening day's slides and exercises to the two week summer course at IED in Barcelona I'm running. Our project topic this year is the future of food. More details on the course can be found here - http://iedbarcelona.es/en/cursos-info/summer-course-in-innovation-and-future-thinking/
Similar to Designing The Future - Metadesign For Murph (17)
Exploring Regenerative Ideas at The RSA - Questions About QuestionsJohn V Willshire
Slides from a conversation that started in summer 2023, with John V Willshire (Smithery), Andy Thornton (@rsaorg), Lizzie Shupak (Curve) and Dr Rob Phillips (@RoyalCollegeofArt) sharing four perspectives on their different, overlapping work, and the ways in which questions are a useful tool in open up ideas to cross between the different areas.
Followed by a conversation with the audience on where this could go next.
Hosted on The Steps at The RSA in London, 16th November 2023.
Regenerative Design Field Kit - https://artefactshop.com/products/regenerative-design-field-kit
Smithery - https://smithery.com
The RSA 10Cs - https://www.thersa.org/blog/2023/07/shifting-towards-a-life-centric-business
Curve - https://www.curve.cc
Ecological Citizens - http://ecologicalcitizens.co.uk
Design Council Systemic Design Framework - https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-resources/systemic-design-framework/
#regenerativedesign #regeneration #regenerativeagriculture #strategicdesign #systemic #systemicdesign #systemsthinking
A talk given at the Oceanographers of the Future symposium in October, about using card methodologies in helping people create a range of different scenarios in order to better develop their future thinking capabilities.
Working Out How The Internet Works - Metamechanics @ #IAMW16 - annotatedJohn V Willshire
My talk from day one of IAMW16 in Barcelona, exploring what the mechanics behind the internet are, why we look for them, and why we might be looking for the wrong thing.
UX London Workshop - Artefact Cards, Spatial Ranges & Flow EnginesJohn V Willshire
I ran a three hour workshop at UX London, doing various exercises and exploring various topics around how to set up good working environments around individuals and teams by thinking well about the space and time around them.
What does it mean to be 'a common brand'? An exploration of how the social nature of the internet fundamentally changes how, where and why meaning is created, and what people who work with brands can do as a result. Also, revealed for the first time, the answer to how much the internet weighs...
I was invited to run the third lab of the Stirling Crucible, a programme at the University of Stirling in Autumn 2014 aimed at increasing interdisciplinarity innovation between different academics at the University. These are the slides; I'll update later with a link to cover more context of the two days.
The slides from a 90 minute innovation session I gave in London for The Network One in London on 29.09.14. The participants were the heads and owners of various nimble, independent agencies, and the idea of the session was to work through new ways of working with their people and clients (the Flow Engines bit), and also to explore why we need to do that (the Fracking The Social Web bit)
Flow Engines - Hack The Way You Work, Not The Time You HaveJohn V Willshire
A version of the talk I gave at the Happy Startup Summercamp 2014, about the creation of Flow Engines, a way to help yourself work at a faster rate by getting more quickly into a flow state using Artefact Cards (http://artefactshop.com/). I've added additional commentary and explanation.
A presentation I hacked together in half an hour for the second Laptops and Looms at Arkwright's Mill in Cromford, in August 2014. It was on starting and growing the Artefact Cards business (http://artefactshop.com), and covers some of the things I found out on that journey.
Innovation on the Fringes - The Key To LeadershipJohn V Willshire
A talk by John V Willshire of Smithery and Tracey Camilleri of the Saïd Business School (University of Oxford) at Innovation stories 2014 in London, on a project called "The Key To Leadership" which was created as part of the Oxford Strategis Leadership Programme.
The slides from the talk I gave on "Does Making Things People Want Beat Making People Want Things" at the IAPI breakfast event on 19th June 2014 in Dublin, Ireland
A presentation first given to third year students of the London College of Communication's Graphic & Media Course, about using Artefact Cards (http://artefactshop.com) in project development work.
Fracking The Social Web - Squared, November 2013John V Willshire
The fourth version of "Fracking The Social Web", a talk I give on the Squared programme led by Google in partnership withthe IPA and Impact International
There is a companion article here on Medium - https://medium.com/p/fba6ce3d1ed6
My Talk from Playful 2013, held at the Conway Hall in London, put on by Mudlurk. The theme for the day was Playing With Form, so I talked about putting things in things, and thinking about the boxes rather than the things we try and squeeze into them. More than ever, these slides make less sense without the narration, so I shall endeavour to record and add that when I can...
Superheroes, Origin Stories & Artefact Cards - Best Of Britannia 2013John V Willshire
A talk from 3rd October 2013 at Best of Britannia, a show of the best in contemporary British Deisgn and Manufacture, Held in Clerkenwell at the Familoe Building.
Why Making Things People Want beats Making People Want Things - Ad:tech 2013John V Willshire
"Why Making Things People Want beats Making People Want Things" is a talk I gave at Ad:tech 2013 in London at the Kensington Olympia.
It's nearly two years since I stumbled across the phrase as a galvanising idea for the work I do with clients and agencies here at Smithery, so it's been great to reinterrogate the notion slighty in the context of some other things. As always, a smattering of economics and maker culture infuses it all.
A talk I gave at Silicon Beach 2013 in Bournemouth, about how the way in which brands, agencies and makers all might think about how they create the marketing for what it is they do.
White wonder, Work developed by Eva TschoppMansi Shah
White Wonder by Eva Tschopp
A tale about our culture around the use of fertilizers and pesticides visiting small farms around Ahmedabad in Matar and Shilaj.
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Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for DesignersConfidence Ago
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It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.
So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.
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6. Most of my childhood
superhero knowledge
comes from here,
Hamilton Library
7. 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2
Worldwide admissions
1978 20101990 20021982 1986 1994 1998 2006 2014
Spiderman
The Schumacher-Clooney
near-extinction event
Iron Man
Kenneth Branagh’s Thor
BatmanSuperman
Avengers: Age Of Ultron
Man of Steel
Superhero films
since I was born…
13. Metaphorical Parenting:
You’re a parent not just to children
But also to people you work with
Friends have have
Peers you know
Clients you create for
49. “In Earth's future,
a global crop
blight and second
Dust Bowl are
slowly rendering
the planet
uninhabitable.”
Source: Google Description
50. “Professor Brand, a
brilliant NASA
physicist, is working on
plans to save mankind
by transporting Earth's
population to a new
home via a
wormhole.”
Source: Google Description
51. “But first, Brand must send former NASA pilot Cooper and a
team of researchers through the wormhole and across the
galaxy to find out which of three planets could be mankind's
new home.”
Source: Google Description
73. Write two cards
with ‘popular
things’
These are
services you
ove, and why
you love them.
74. Then write two
cards with ‘broken
things’
These are issues
you, or others, have
with a particular
thing
75. Then in teams of four,
line up your eight
popular things, and
eight broken things.
You now have TEN
minutes to make EIGHT
startups - ‘popular
thing for broken thing’
76. Each person then takes ONE idea, finds a
partner from a different team, and pitches
them their idea for a minute. Then the
other person pitches back for a minute.
You have a minute to think about your
pitch again, then you find a new partner,
and repeat three or four times.
What happens is each idea either gets
better, or gets worse. They just don’t
remain UNKNOWN….
82. This guy is Dmitri
Mendeleev. He
invented (well,
discovered) the
periodic table.
83. In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev published
a periodic table. Mendeleev also
arranged the elements known at the
time in order of relative atomic mass,
but he did some other things that
made his table much more successful.
84. To get to this, Mendeleev had created a card
deck with all the elements, their properties, and
the atomic weights on them.
On long train journeys, he played what he called
‘element solitaire’ - sorting through the cards,
exploring orders and connections… just finding
patterns in the individual elements.
85.
86.
87. What’s fascinating about Mendeleev’s table is not just
the correct order he found for KNOWN elements, but
the spaces his table had created.
These spaces allowed him to deduce that there were
other elements we had not yet discovered and should
look for. He correctly predicted five elements we would
discover, three of which were found before his death.
88. Dan Dennett
I thought about this in the
context of something else
Dennett brought out in his
book ‘Intuition Pumps’…
96. Scott Smith - @changeist
John V Willshire -@willsh
Laura Clèries - @lcleries
Andrew Colmenares - @colmenares
Christina Bifano
We did it in various ways
when we taught this
course in the summer
105. When we started working
together, Fraser asked “what do
you actually do…?”
(it’s a good question)
106. I’d just started exploring it more,
thanks to two books that two different
friends had recommended to me in
the same week, by the same author.
I like coincidences like this.
118. The slow
drift east
Cronuts
for lunch
S5 S4 S3 S2 S1
P5
P4
P3
P2
P1
In London, over
the last ten
years creative
company have
moved to new
buildings around
Old Street
You look on the
desks of these
companies, and
you can tell from
the foodstuffs
what is currently
fashionable
119. Look away from the line, and you see other more
interesting uses, often powered by technology
120. S5 S4 S3 S2 S1
P5
P4
P3
P2
P1
Lighting displays
based on actions
You can use fast
people actions
(sales,productivity,
noise) to chance the
look and feel inside
and outside of the
building through
lighting
121. S5 S4 S3 S2 S1
P5
P4
P3
P2
P1
The cultural judo
of iPads for all
Changing the way that
everyone accesses the
company in their
personal space could
created a massive
cultural shift nearly
overnight
122. S5 S4 S3 S2 S1
P5
P4
P3
P2
P1
This system view
allows us to think
well about the
sorts of problems,
and first initial
solutions, might
pop out from
thinking about
people and space
as a whole
123. We have a simple version we can quickly
sketch out as a tool for thinking…
124.
125. But we also needed a way to access the depth
of possibility contained in the system view
126. S5 S4 S3 S2 S1
P5
P4
P3
P2
P1
What could
we use to
populate each
of these cells?
127. “I just don’t think
your bookshelves
are trying to talk
to you, Murph”
Coop
128.
129. I spent a weekend dancing
around stacks of books, making
a physical representation of the
system of our practice
132. “The acquisition of books is by no means a matter of
money or expert knowledge alone.
Not even both factors together suffice for the
establishment of a real library.”
- Walter Benjamin
133. It’s not having the ability to buy
books, nor the knowledge of which
books to buy, that makes a library
161. A manifesto for leastmodernism
How can we do less? How can we have one client instead of
ten? Work with five colleagues indeed of five hundred. Find
customers who only want to buy once?
How can we have one car instead of two? Three bedrooms
instead of five? Buy two, leave the third where it is?
How can we do this in a day and not a week? Write one
sentence, say ten words, make one thing once?
How do we create the most value from doing the least we can?
More is less, more or less.
162. If you want to find out more
about Metadesign, please visit:
metadesigners.org