Open Networked Cooperation
How do we act on complex systems to induce positive changes ? Inspired by systems thinker Donella Meadows, this article discusses the importance of changing the vision/story as a prerequisite for any systemic change to occur.
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A case study presenting the organization of #MousTIC, a co-creative event about open cooperation and social innovation.
mousTIC is an event about open and collaborative models for social innovation. In 2013 the event took place in Montpellier, a city in the south of France, and gathered over 200 participants for 3 days to discuss, share, exchange about collaborative tools and practices, but also to co-create tools and methods. The participants came from very different backgrounds: non-profit organizations, urbanism, ICT for development, free/open source software, social &solidarity economy, journalist, students, artists, …
The following presentation details the various co-creative formats that were used during the event and the organizational model behind it.
This is part of my open research on co-creative events patterns
Continue reading “Case study: how to co-create a co-creative event”
Jason Fried is one of the brain who built Basecamp the minimalist and powerfull collaborative online project management system. the author of Getting Real, an extremely inspiring book on design, simplicity, minimalism and effectiveness.
I already posted a video of him discussing Why work doesn’t happen at work.
Here’s another inspiring article on simplicity and innovation :
“while it’s hard to cut back, it’s good to remember that subtraction can lead to addition. New shoots, new sprouts, and new ideas often need new room to grow. They’re waiting, but you need to clear the way.”
Read the full article: Pruning: Making room for something new
New research from Harvard Business School shows that to make people feel like they have more time, you’ve got to add tasks to their schedule — so long as those tasks involve helping other people.
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How can we design spaces in the city which encourage strangers to cooperate? In this lecture, sociologist Richard Sennett explores how physical structures influence social structures, and more specifically how they influence our ability to cooperate.
In Sennett’s view, cooperation grow from informal interactions between people and requires willingness and trust. In our current world based on materialistic value, these informal interactions and the trust capital that they enable are usually forgotten because they can’t be quantified easily. Worse our values and architecture actively encourage the loss of the skills of cooperation. Continue reading “Build the architecture of cooperation”
This thoughtful article explore traditional design methods (usually rigid frameworks) and why people usually don’t follow them. The author’s analysis, inspired by Christopher Alexander Patterns and Bill Mollison’s permaculture ideas, lead them to a new framework that describes a dynamic process of immergence, crisis and emergence: Continue reading “Understand the patterns and qualities of generative design processes”
Ryan Singer is one of the amazing designers from 37signals. Here’s a talk on how he uses Christopher Alexander’s work for webdesign but also how it can be applied for any design. Great talk !
The work of the architect Christopher Alexander has spawned a remarkable revolution in technology, producing a set of innovations ranging from Wikipedia to The Sims. Notably he influenced people like Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki concept or some people behind the innovative webdesign company that produced Basecamp: 37signals.
Alexander didn’t only influence the world of software but many other fields, including biology, ecology, organization theory, business management, and manufacturing.
Here are some notes and links on his remarkable work. Continue reading “Design with patterns: the work of Christopher Alexander”
An interesting discussion about the new ecosystemic innovation models and the best practices to design collaborative environnements for open innovation.
Continue reading “How to design a platform for co-creation and grow an innovation ecosystem”
A slideshow discussing where creativity comes from and how to design environments that enhances creativity. Worth reading.