November 23, 2012
Concept
You can’t get creative insights sitting behind an office desk. Everything is more or less predictable and contradictory things can be left outside. Out in the world, it’s more chaotic. You have to deal with unexpected findings, with uncertainty, and with irrational people who say things you don’t want to hear. But that is where you find insights. That is why at the Convention Camp, we are not making a presentation of how we work, neither telling about our successful stories, nor our failures. We are venturing in the Convention Camp pursuing learning without any hypothesis or script, but to challenge our comfortable assumptions (and the ones o of its visitors)
We want to learn about the limits of openness, connectedness and sharing. And imagine scenarios which narrate our insights into a story. This story is a spontaneous reflection of what happened at the Convention Camp, and we will share it at the end of the day with all.
The session is facilitated by Pedro Pineda. It is designed to visualize an spontaneous reflection to the Convention Camp and what is happening at this very moment. The session is inspired by betahaus as you know which is a co-working space. Here things are not predictable, some things are very contradictory and irrational people try to change the world.
Process
This process should not be seen as a fix scientific structure but rather functions as the drum’s player in a jazz concert. It serves as a reference for participants and it might be spontaneously updated, changed or ignored depending on the flow.
Part 1: Gathering insights (Open to all)
Part 2: Understand insight and find out patterns (Open to all)
Part 3: Creating stories
Team
The session will be kickstarted by Anne, Alessandro, Rick, Maximilian, and Ricardo. All from different backgrounds, have never work together before, do not even have an action plan, but are all co-workers willing to get out of their comfort zone. (Full bios can be find online at www.betahaus.de)
Anne Kjær Riechert: The Dreamer (anne@kaospilot.dk): Anne is a 2006 graduate from the KaosPilots in Denmark.. Since 2006, Anne organizes -We Have a Dream- global workshops to empower youth through drawings and discussions about their dreams for the future.
Alessandro Contini: The Realist (www.alessandrocontini.it): Alessandro is a designer and a tech savvy. He works with sounds, images and coding. Currently he's a freelance creative technologist, interactive artist and regular hackathon-goer!
Maximilian Doerner: The Futurist (@maximiliandoe): Max is a Future managment researcher and Business Anthropologist engaged in a multitude of fields including future analysis and foresight, design thinking as well as business culture and innovation management
Pedro Pineda: The Connector (@pedropiba): Pedro is an experiences and process designer. He develops ways to apply collective & creative problem solving to challenges that affect us as individuals or as society. And the application of design and art to inspire activism.
Ricardo Ferrer:The generalist (@ricferrer): Ric uses his extensive experience in management, design and programming to advise and help in the conceptual design on all projects he is involved with. His multi-cultural background serves him well in order to predict the needs of an emerging digital generation of nomadic professionals.
RicK Scavetta: The Optimist (rick.scavetta@science-craft.com): Rick, as a co-founder of Science Craft, he is dedicated to offering outstanding transferable skills training to graduate students in the life sciences. Rick combines his infectious enthusiasm for science and its communication with a unique ability to inspire life scientists in their career development
More upcoming events and announcements you can find in our beta calendar!
