This document describes Prototype Camp Chicago, an event focused on prototyping and design. It includes quotes about design and its importance from Bill Moggridge and Christopher Alexander. The document outlines the format of the camp, which will include press releases, prototypes, and iterating based on monthly themes and audiences. It references lean startup methodology and notes the camp's goal is world-saving through design and prototyping.

1. Prototype Camp Chicago
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@ChicagoCamps #prototypecamp
Jason Kunesh
@jdkunesh

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5. publicgood.com @publicgood

6. "I don’t think that anyone has really
told (people) what design is. It
doesn’t occur to most people that
everything is designed–that every
building and everything they touch in
the world is designed. Even foods
are designed now. So in the process
of helping people understand this,
making them more aware of the fact
that the wor l d around us i s
something that somebody has
control of, perhaps they can feel
some sense of control, too. I think
that’s a nice ambition."
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–Bill Moggridge

11. If software is eating the world,
prototyping is the fork.

22. The form is the solution to the problem;
the context defines the problem.
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–Christopher Alexander

30. press release
landing page & email
content
sketches & prototypes/code
launch & iterate
theme = month = audience

38. “Too much and too long, we seem to
have surrendered community excellence
and community values in the mere
accumulation of material things. Our
gross national product...counts air
pollution and cigarette advertising.”
“Yet the gross national product does not
allow for the health of our children, the
quality of their education, or the joy of
their play. It does not include the beauty
of our poetry or the strength of our
marriages… it measures everything, in
short, except that which makes life
worthwhile.”
–Robert F. Kennedy

46. social enterprise
(benefit corporation)
lean startup
agile
holocractic-ish

48. "All that hype for an MP3 player? Break-thru
digital device? The Reality Distortion Field™ is
starting to warp Steve [Jobs]’s mind if he
thinks for one second that this thing is gonna
take off." - By NobodySpecial
"I for one am disappointed and think that
Apple is making a mistake by trying to get into
this market." - By Jaime
"Any way you spin this it is: Not revolutionary…
A bad fit…(and) without a future." - By FatTony

51. WORLD-SAVING

52. “Be so good
that they can’t
ignore you.”
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–Steve Martin

53. “How can you tell a good painting from a bad one?”...
“All you have to do my dear,” he said, “is look at a million
paintings, and then you can never be mistaken.”
It's true! It's true!
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–Kurt Vonnegut

54. Then my father sat down
beside him, put his arm
around my brother’s
shoulder and said, “Bird
by bird, buddy. Just take
it bird by bird.”

57. Thank you!
@jdkunesh
jdkunesh@gmail.com