co-creation

ChangeCamp: Toronto to London

by Brian on 02-18-2010

in civics,london

A few of us travelled from London to a ChangeCamp event in Toronto Tuesday night to help design a civic engagement toolkit: We see the municipal elections in 2010 as an excuse to gather people together to have real dialogues about the future of our communities. We believe that open source approaches can enable those conversations [...]

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Creative Relationships

by Brian on 11-28-2009

in art,creativity,education

Jotted this down just before falling asleep last night: As opposed to someone who thinks along conventional lines, someone who is genuinely creative constantly and actively looks for potential complementarity in everyone they meet — not just asking “who is this person and “what have they done,” but digging deeper to ask “what potential is there [...]

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Newspapers, Getting Old

by Brian on 12-17-2008

in business,civics,media

I like newspapers. I used to love newspapers, but we’re growing apart — farther apart every day. While I don’t make a conscious effort to pick up the paper anymore, I still read a lot online and I do my best to refer other people to important or interesting articles. And even when I’m advocating progress away [...]

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