Ideas on Creative Collaboration
At FITC this year I attended a presentation by Patrick Keenan and Alan Smith from The Movement. The presentation was titled “Think Globally, Design Locally” and it was for people who care about design, beauty and functionality but who are also globally aware and want to make a difference.
The presentation as a whole really resonated with me but I wanted to mention one part in particular because Ann has been talking about creative collaboration tools.
The Movement threw a work party. They had a few problems they wanted to solve so they invited people to come have fun and actually do some work. The guests were asked to sign a contract, work in different departments and earn some fake cash to buy beer.
Read more about the work party over at Prototype, The Movement blog.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
I like it! Part of the interesting thing for me about the new freelance life is how everytime I enter a new company, it feels like camp. I don’t feel as though there is a little box that I am trying to work my way out of — instead, my ignorance is bliss and I find that much of the stuff that I do in some of my very first projects comes to be the most inspired.
I also think there is a certain framework of thinking when you get into the rubric of “work” vs. “fun”. The latter concept easily allows for exploratory thinking (it is fun after all!) and tangential approaches, while the former carries the stigma of efficiency, budgets, tasks etc. Although the hope is to find the happy medium, I think the very approach can be the liberating factor!