Some people talk of an ’innovation butterfly’, of swarm intelligence, and the benefits of ‘flocking’. Basic models of flocking behaviour are controlled by three simple rules: Separation – avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion) Alignment – steer towards average heading of neighbours Cohesion – steer towards average position of neighbours (long range attraction) With these three simple rules, the flock moves…
The spin out from NESTA, 100%open have invented their ‘jam’ and ‘discover’ methods for co-creation of innovation. Some of their key concepts include: Give|Get Cultivate the edge Ideas are worthless – conversations, relationships, transactions Net-works Connect the dots – ‘if the answer isn’t surprising, you are asking the wrong question’ Start@the end In their 100% idiom, they are discussing forms of innovative…
Jake Chapman ‘System Failure’ DEMOS publication (2002), seminal paper in the UK which applied systems’ thinking to the messiness of public policy problems. Relevant to our thinking about context of use and the personal specifics of intimate experience of innovation. In discussing core systems concepts (pages 33-34), Chapman writes: The existence of significantly different perspectives on a problem is a…
In Brazil, when working with Mandalah, I learned about the prevalence of ‘improvisation’ in how Brazilians understand their capacity to innovate – from football, to the ingenuity of surviving life in a favella. There appears to be a national debate about the of improvisation, and the benefits of ‘straight lines’. A catalogue introduction for their Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo…
I was sent a TED talk no mistakes on the bandstand by Philip Boxer – we reminisced about jamming. I have forward the link to colleagues, collaborators, clients. Vibes’ player, Stefon Harris describes the bandstand as a special place, incredible and purifying, where…. there is no chance to think about the future or the past there are so many decisions being made…
Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger (quoted in ‘Evocative Objects: things we think with’ by Sherry Turkle): ‘Perceiving is not a matter of passively allowing an organ – say of sight or hearing – to receive a ready-made impression from without, like a palette receiving a spot of paint. Recognising and remembering are not matters of stirring up old images of…
Piaget, Genetic Epistemology (quoted in ‘Evocative Objects: things we think with‘ by Sherry Tuckle Page 38) ‘To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. To know is to assimilate reality into systems of transformations. To know is to transform reality in order to understand how a certain state is brought about. By…
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