how to create shared experience
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
- Vincent van Gogh
coordinate
similar to cartography, coordination can be seen as a mapmaking for shared understanding in complex systems
Managing tight bonds across large groups can get hard fast. Dynamic projects and growing communities are created by way of fine tuned systems for coordinating all stakeholders. Team capacities, operational speed, and basic economics all increase when everyone sees the same map and how they can interact with it.
Design thinking is a beautiful process for solving complex problems fast. It allows us to future cast and back cast together, while realigning systems, decreasing redundancies, and finding new strategies. It helps reverse engineer the futures we see. There is no way of participatory thinking I trust more to get groups out of a pinch and back on track together.
design
alongside coordination, design creates and constructs coherent objects and systems for shared understanding
produce
the support and management of rapid work cycles, lists of line items, and handoffs between teams of people
The speed of a complex production is not for everyone. More people burn out in the live events, media, and technology industries than nearly any other. However, it’s within these often impossible timelines that rabbits also fly from hats. What emerges on a production cannot be said ahead of time, and in the end, it all comes down to the team & leadership.
Organizing anything effectively requires discipline and commitment. We organize in order to offer consistency to ourselves and others around us. What is without is within and what we design designs us back. From communities to properties, strong organization begins with being aware of what does not work for us and then changing that experience.
organize
finding process between seemingly disparate objects, often partnered with modularity, efficiency, and saving time.
techne
a making or doing, known better today as practical knowledge - the root of technology
Applying scientific knowledge for practical purpose changes the ways in which things work together. In modern times we use the term technology to speak to hardware and software tools developed for applying science to our lives. It is at the intersection point of two or more seemingly disparate technologies where it becomes indistinguishable from magic.