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The presentation was given during the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ Certified facilitators' Annual Meeting in Billund (Denmark) on April 7th 2013.
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Link to video: http://www.ixda.org/resources/cindy-chastain-thinking-storyteller
Here is a talk from Mike Krieger of the Stanford HCI Group that he gave at an Adobe Plerk Workshop. HCI being Human Computer Interaction. It examines how people react when you task them with creativity for crowd solutions.
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY: Imagination & Creativity for the BusinessPatrizia Bertini
Lego Serious Play is a creative, imaginative and story-telling based approach that since 2002 has been successfully adopted by businesses ad organisations all around the world.
LSP has proved to be an effective solution for team building, strategy, co-creation, concept, conflict resolution…
And its efficacy can be tracked back to the key theories that have been included in the development and formalisation of LSP: from management, Psychology of play, Imagination, Embodied cognition, Metaphors, constructionism… They are all perfectly integrated in the Lego Serious Play experience and deliver unexpected results efficiently. This presentation tells who adopted this approach and the whys.
LegoViews: a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ based interviewing technique.Patrizia Bertini
LegoViews is an innovative journalistic interviewing technique developed by Patrizia Bertini, Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ facilitator. Starting from the theoretical framework of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™, the LegoView technique allows new ideas and new concepts to emerge, providing original and new insights about the topics at hand. The Lego-interviewing technique has been tested in highly sensitive contexts, including Palestine, Israel and the Occupy LSX movement, and it has also been used to provide new insights on specific concepts, like art, creativity, colour and architecture by involving artists, architects, professionals and thinkers.
The presentation was given during the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ Certified facilitators' Annual Meeting in Billund (Denmark) on April 7th 2013.
The presentations draws from LSP workshops' and Lego-interviews' experiences to present similarities and differences and to highlight the high potential of a creative and constructive approach both to elicit new meanings and perspectives and to create new meanings. A final comparison between LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ and LegoViews completes the presentation, summarising more than 3 years' work and research in the field.
This talk is about how language plays a pivotal role in creating meaningful experiences beyond interaction design. It was delivered by David Sherwin at Emily Carr University of Art and Design on March 30, 2011.
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As interaction designers we do well at facilitating the complex dialogue between people and the interactive products they use. But we often neglect to consider the story that evolves through the interactions people have with the things we make. Designing with a narrative in mind can make a difference between a product that merely functions well and a product that engages the minds, emotions and imaginations of users.
Drawing on personal experience, narrative theory and examples ranging from interactive products to film, this presentation is a call to action for designers to equip themselves with a deeper understanding of narrative techniques. We’ll focus on core aspects such as theme, scene-making, and sequencing to illustrate how thinking like a storyteller can make you a better designer. You’ll also learn how this approach can be a powerful basis for holistic design.
Link to video: http://www.ixda.org/resources/cindy-chastain-thinking-storyteller
Leveraging Social Media - to find each other in biz! Elizabeth Quintanilla gave this talk to Corporate Purchasers at Microsoft in Austin TX, on May 10th. Special Thanks to - John Moore and WOMMA for sharing their thoughts on the web and used some of their quotes as part of this prezo! ~Marketing Gunslingers at EQ Consultants Group, @equintanilla
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@nguyenduong
Serendipity happens at SXSW, even among the likeminded.
Put yourself into unfamiliar panels, discussions, situations.
participation planning director @SaatchiLA
Serendipity is about finding what you aren’t looking for.
With so many new technologies and behaviors, are we changing conditions for Serendipity?
Conversations around Serendipity: Beginner’s mind. Putting yourself out there. The networked mind. Be careful of over-focusing.
2. “As we gain wisdom, how do we retain
a beginner’s mind?”
@colinraney design and location
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“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the experts mind there are few.” - Shunryu Suzuk
Approach everything as if you were a grom. A beginner. Everything is new and exciting. Even wiping-out was fun as a kid. You’re having fun no matter the situation. Many
possibilities when you’re a beginner. When you’re an expert, you see few.
Serendipity loves enthusiasm, creativity and optimism. Like you were as a grom. A beginner.
“As you grow older, your memory goes down, but your pattern recognition goes up.” - @joi
3. “It’s important to commit to
something and go build it.
That will attract others.”
@kevinrose
founder of @digg
You create your own luck by committing to an idea and putting yourself out there.
Breakfast NY: saw the emerging popularity of Instagram and committed to an idea that allowed users to experience it in an analog way.
Made By Many: saw a gap in Instagram and created a new way to experience photos and for storytelling.
These agencies created their own serendipity when they committed to their idea and shared it w/the SXSW community.
4. “Teach your kids to ALWAYS talk to strangers.”
@jpbarlow
co-founder of eff.org
“Our acquaintances, not our friends are our greatest source of new ideas and information. The internet lets us
exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvelous efficiency.” - Malcolm Gladwell, The New
Yorker
Serendipity lives at the edges of the network. Expand, explore outside your comfort zone. Look for that person who
5. Opportunities are created through relationships. And often times we find new connections and inspiration through our weak ties. From people unlike us. Some really big thinking years ago on “The Strength of Weak
Ties” by a sociologist, Mark Granovetter.
How do we find new perspective through our weak ties?
Large organizations lose their creativity because they homogenize instead of hybridizing.
Agencies hiring people outside of adland. Publishers hiring from adland.
Google designing their work places to prepare for serendipity. No one in their 1.1MM sq ft complex will more than a 2.5min walkd from any other. “You can schedule innovation. We want to create opportunities for
people to have ideas and be able to turn to others right there and say, ‘What do you think of this?” - David Radcliff, civil engineer overseeing the development of the GooglePlex
There’s a lot of serendipity that happens at co-working spaces. Coworking spaces provides solopreneurs a place where collaboration and community are highly valued, where you bring in all different types of brains
and networks.
“Fortune prefers the networked mind.”
@jpbarlow
co-founder of eff.org
6. “You lose peripheral
vision when you focus.”
@joi
director MIT Media Lab
“and you lose creativity when you focus.” - @joi
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needed, bring in different skill-sets, experiences together for productive collaboration.
7. beginner’s mind.
put yourself out there.
network with weak ties.
don’t over-focus.
Beginner’s mind: to borrow from W+K, walk in stupid.
Put yourself out there: scratch that curiosity itch and commit to your ideas
Network w/weak ties: don’t be afraid to talk to strangers
Don’t over-focus: remember to smell the roses and look up and around you sometimes
8. thank you.
@nguyenduong
participation planning director @SaatchiLA