building the future (1)
Two weeks ago we held an event to bring together a brilliant group of creative and inspiring people to think about the future. But more than just *think* about the future, the group was tasked with looking for ways to help represent the future – to create ideas and representations that would help other people to think about the future more critically.
The event was held in the wonderful MAGIC PLAYroom at SMARTlab – which enabled the group to make use of an open creative space as well as a range of computers, non-digital resources, floor and wall projectors, fabrication devices… The tools were available for all to use and the inspiration was provided by a range of experts. Jessica Charlesworth and Michael Burton showed some work around futures and obesity. Alex Hall provided insight into how artefacts of today can be changed in both form and function by a range of future trends (more of this in the New Year).
During the course of the day we used ‘creative note-taking’ – finding ways to capture converstations and ideas beyond text and mindmaps. The aim of this is to help ‘reframe’ conversations (changing speech to images, images to stories etc) and also provides a point of reference to further expore issues as they are raised. Having such a wide range of methods for capturing rich conversations also helps in providing those who weren’t there with an insight into different aspects of the day (and in particular the conversations held and ideas developed).
Three very talented creators helped with this, Dave Clark captured the group’s conversations in images and ’scribles’, Toby Borland captured conversations and scribbles as 3D models and Martin Maudsley brought together conversations, images and models into a story. Video outputs, designs and images will be shared soon, as will Martin’s summative story.
This Link goes to some of the images captured during the day – be great to see/hear what you make of them without any contextual explanation. Be even more interested in what they make you think about.
