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• active 
  • Altered states of con­scious­ness 

    Altered state: A state of mind where one is more relaxed and flex­i­ble and open to new and dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ences. any con­di­tion which is significantly…

  • Alter­na­tive media 

    Con­sult alter­na­tive media. Alter­na­tive media is that which is not cor­po­rately owned, usu­ally inde­pen­dent, often crowd-sourced, often pro­vided by reg­u­lar people…

  • Col­lage 

    A col­lage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a work of for­mal art, pri­mar­ily in the visual arts, made from an assem­blage of dif­fer­ent forms, thus…

  • Con­ver­sa­tion on a coun­try path 

    Invite three peo­ple on a walk in the vein of Heidegger’s Con­ver­sa­tions on a Coun­try Path essay with the philoso­pher, the sci­en­tist and the teacher. Pick…

  • Cul­tural Probes 

    A cul­tural probe is an object or strat­egy that enters into the every­day exis­tence of ‘the other’ and gen­er­ates con­tent and feed­back around a particular…

  • Defa­mil­iari­sa­tion 

    Shklovsky is per­haps best known for devel­op­ing the con­cept of otstra­ne­nie or defa­mil­iar­iza­tion (also trans­lated as “estrange­ment”) in lit­er­a­ture. He explained…

  • Direc­tion­ally extended mind map 

    Take the reg­u­lar mind map­ping con­cept and allow the mind map to grow whichever way it feels. For exam­ple, allow  a par­tic­u­lar con­cept to grow and keep adding…

  • Dis­cuss with ‘the other’ 

    A min­i­mum of two peo­ple are required in order to have a dia­logue over a par­tic­u­lar sub­ject, brief, topic, emo­tion, obser­va­tion. Two or more peo­ple sit…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Excur­sions 

    Fresh insights. Metaphors are used to pro­vide new think­ing about a prob­lem, and the ideas are then force-fitted back to the orig­i­nal prob­lem. Street…

  • Flow 

    Com­po­nents of flow Csík­szent­mi­há­lyi iden­ti­fies the fol­low­ing ten fac­tors as accom­pa­ny­ing an expe­ri­ence of flow. Clear goals (expec­ta­tions and rules are…

  • Going to the Zoo 

    Pre­tend all humans are ani­mals and the city is the zoo. Iden­tify ani­mal qual­i­ties in humans and human qual­i­ties in ani­mals. What is miss­ing from human…

  • Lefebvre’s Research Method 

    Descrip­tive (pri­mary research): Obser­va­tion Observe prac­tices through pho­tog­ra­phy, film, sketch­ing. For exam­ple what con­sti­tutes an open prod­uct, a game,…

  • Lin­guis­tic Play­ful­ness 

    This is some­thing which can be done either alone or in a group. It can be done as an ideation tool but also poten­tially to cre­ate a final prod­uct. There are…

  • Obser­va­tion Research Design 

    Con­sid­er­ing the Leve­b­vre model of  research take the descrip­tive obser­va­tion pri­mary research part and take that as the exer­cise. Struc­ture all the ways in…

  • Open Source Ecol­ogy 

    By weav­ing open source per­ma­cul­tural and tech­no­log­i­cal cycles together, we intend to pro­vide basic human needs while being good stew­ards of the land, using…

  • Phys­i­cal Geo­t­ag­ging 

    Cre­ate a map on paper, or model form. Con­duct a pho­to­graphic sur­vey like the exam­ple in ‘sys­tem­atic research’. Print out con­tact sheet style pages of the…

  • Psy­cho­geog­ra­phy 

    Psy­cho­geog­ra­phy is the process whereby an indi­vid­ual or a group of peo­ple go on a jour­ney through a space or envi­ron­ment. It is inspired by the Situationist…

  • Ran­dom Ele­ments 

    Dur­ing your every­day life, cap­ture things (objects or per­haps media using a smart­phone or brows­ing a web­site). Col­late all of these ele­ments where you…

  • Reject Tech­nol­ogy 

    Lyotard — Towards the Inhuman

  • Role Play / The­atre 

    An exper­i­men­tal space for behav­ing in a struc­tured way out­side of what is con­sid­ered socially nor­mal and proper but nor­mally within the semi­otic frame­work of…

  • Self-composed music 

    Com­pose some music by your­self or in a group. You can use free soft­ware, avail­able instru­ments, cre­ate your own instru­ments or any kind of objects which emit…

  • Story Cubes 

    This method can be done alone or in a group. Con­struct a sim­ple schematic for a cube, like so: Cre­ate a num­ber of these, say four, and choose a context…

  • Syn­tagm Shift 

    Using one object as another. In semi­otics, syn­tag­matic analy­sis is analy­sis of syn­tax or sur­face struc­ture (syn­tag­matic struc­ture) as opposed to paradigms…

  • Sys­tem­atic Research 

    Develop a log­i­cal sys­tem for con­duct­ing a par­tic­u­lar aspect of research. This can be done alone, but works well in a group because hav­ing a sys­tem­atic approach…

  • Think­ing Things 

    A group of peo­ple sit at a table. A large sheet of paper is laid out on the table. On it is drawn three large cir­cles and the whole thing is split into 6…

  • What do you have to do to get there from the here and now? 

    This is some­thing which involves envi­sion­ing a dif­fer­ent ‘state’ of being, place, event, object and then work­ing out what you have to do to get there. For…

• audio 
  • Audio Edit­ing & Rep­re­sen­ta­tion 

    Audio can be rep­re­sented as it was recorded for reflec­tive pur­poses, or it can be med­dled with, cut up, mashed together, unpicked and decon­structed (for…

  • Audio Record­ing 

    Sounds can be recorded, rec­om­mended with a decent recorder;  see the M-Audio Micro­track 2 or the Edirol N-09 — ebay list­ing. Sound is a fantastic…

  • Forms through Sound (Cymat­ics) 

    Audio could be approached from the point of view of it’s ben­e­fit as a trans­fer of energy and indeed form:

  • Self-composed music 

    Com­pose some music by your­self or in a group. You can use free soft­ware, avail­able instru­ments, cre­ate your own instru­ments or any kind of objects which emit…

  • Twelve-tone tech­nique 

    Twelve-tone tech­nique (also dode­caphony, twelve-tone seri­al­ism, and, in British usage, twelve-note com­po­si­tion) is a method of musi­cal com­po­si­tion devised by…

• aware­ness 
  • Close Read­ing 

    How to Do a Close Read­ing The process of writ­ing an essay usu­ally begins with the close read­ing of a text. Of course, the writer’s per­sonal expe­ri­ence may…

  • Cul­tural Probes 

    A cul­tural probe is an object or strat­egy that enters into the every­day exis­tence of ‘the other’ and gen­er­ates con­tent and feed­back around a particular…

  • Obser­va­tion Film­mak­ing 

    Obser­va­tion film­mak­ing gen­er­ally gives a reflec­tion of the men­tal state and vision of the film­maker. It is may be a chal­lenge for the viewer but the aim is to…

  • Open Source Ecol­ogy 

    By weav­ing open source per­ma­cul­tural and tech­no­log­i­cal cycles together, we intend to pro­vide basic human needs while being good stew­ards of the land, using…

  • Spec­u­la­tive Real­ism 

    This recent philo­soph­i­cal move­ment rejects ‘Cor­re­la­tion­ism’ which is a priv­i­leg­ing of a subject-object way of under­stand­ing the world. The ben­e­fit is to change…

  • Spir­i­tual Teach­ing 

    To begin with we see that Europe can only repro­duce what in India, under the peo­ple of thinkers, had already accom­plished sev­eral thou­sand years ago as a…

  • Think­ing Things — Revi­sion­ing 

    Our abil­ity is dic­tated by our will to prac­tice. “Think­ing Things” is an ever evolv­ing set of tools designed to allow users to “make space”; space to…

• cap­ture 
  • Ran­dom Ele­ments 

    Dur­ing your every­day life, cap­ture things (objects or per­haps media using a smart­phone or brows­ing a web­site). Col­late all of these ele­ments where you…

  • Sys­tem­atic Research 

    Develop a log­i­cal sys­tem for con­duct­ing a par­tic­u­lar aspect of research. This can be done alone, but works well in a group because hav­ing a sys­tem­atic approach…

• con­struc­tive 
  • A Brief Explo­sion 

    Note: you might want to med­i­tate on this You receive a brief or have an idea which you think is worth­while tak­ing for­ward. Here are some meth­ods to…

  • Cul­tural Probes 

    A cul­tural probe is an object or strat­egy that enters into the every­day exis­tence of ‘the other’ and gen­er­ates con­tent and feed­back around a particular…

  • Direc­tion­ally extended mind map 

    Take the reg­u­lar mind map­ping con­cept and allow the mind map to grow whichever way it feels. For exam­ple, allow  a par­tic­u­lar con­cept to grow and keep adding…

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

  • Lefebvre’s Research Method 

    Descrip­tive (pri­mary research): Obser­va­tion Observe prac­tices through pho­tog­ra­phy, film, sketch­ing. For exam­ple what con­sti­tutes an open prod­uct, a game,…

  • Open Source Ecol­ogy 

    By weav­ing open source per­ma­cul­tural and tech­no­log­i­cal cycles together, we intend to pro­vide basic human needs while being good stew­ards of the land, using…

  • Phys­i­cal Geo­t­ag­ging 

    Cre­ate a map on paper, or model form. Con­duct a pho­to­graphic sur­vey like the exam­ple in ‘sys­tem­atic research’. Print out con­tact sheet style pages of the…

  • Ran­dom Ele­ments 

    Dur­ing your every­day life, cap­ture things (objects or per­haps media using a smart­phone or brows­ing a web­site). Col­late all of these ele­ments where you…

  • Self-composed music 

    Com­pose some music by your­self or in a group. You can use free soft­ware, avail­able instru­ments, cre­ate your own instru­ments or any kind of objects which emit…

  • Story Cubes 

    This method can be done alone or in a group. Con­struct a sim­ple schematic for a cube, like so: Cre­ate a num­ber of these, say four, and choose a context…

  • Syn­tagm Shift 

    Using one object as another. In semi­otics, syn­tag­matic analy­sis is analy­sis of syn­tax or sur­face struc­ture (syn­tag­matic struc­ture) as opposed to paradigms…

  • Sys­tem­atic Research 

    Develop a log­i­cal sys­tem for con­duct­ing a par­tic­u­lar aspect of research. This can be done alone, but works well in a group because hav­ing a sys­tem­atic approach…

  • Think­ing Things 

    A group of peo­ple sit at a table. A large sheet of paper is laid out on the table. On it is drawn three large cir­cles and the whole thing is split into 6…

• crit­i­cal 
  • Con­cept Maps 

    A con­cept map is made by link­ing ideas together by lines. Con­cepts can be links by mul­ti­ple lines to other con­cepts. A piece of soft­ware for this pur­pose is…

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

  • Hang­ing out with the ‘I’ thought 

    This is a sec­tion from my first book from my Ride Earth bicy­cle trav­els: We arrive in Budapest and stay with a curi­ous fel­low who lives in a Yurt called…

  • How do you want to live? 

    As your­self the ques­tion. Dis­cuss the ques­tion in a group. Com­bine this with storycubes.

  • Lin­guis­tic Play­ful­ness 

    This is some­thing which can be done either alone or in a group. It can be done as an ideation tool but also poten­tially to cre­ate a final prod­uct. There are…

  • Maps 

    A map is a visual rep­re­sen­ta­tion of an area—a sym­bolic depic­tion high­light­ing rela­tion­ships between ele­ments of that space such as objects, regions, and…

  • Obser­va­tion Research Design 

    Con­sid­er­ing the Leve­b­vre model of  research take the descrip­tive obser­va­tion pri­mary research part and take that as the exer­cise. Struc­ture all the ways in…

  • Self-composed music 

    Com­pose some music by your­self or in a group. You can use free soft­ware, avail­able instru­ments, cre­ate your own instru­ments or any kind of objects which emit…

  • Spec­tac­u­lar Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion 

    Look for all, in the Debor­dian sense, Spec­tac­u­lar ele­ments. What things rein­force the instinct to be entranced and awed by spec­ta­cles. What are the…

  • Spec­u­la­tive Real­ism 

    This recent philo­soph­i­cal move­ment rejects ‘Cor­re­la­tion­ism’ which is a priv­i­leg­ing of a subject-object way of under­stand­ing the world. The ben­e­fit is to change…

  • Sys­tem­atic Research 

    Develop a log­i­cal sys­tem for con­duct­ing a par­tic­u­lar aspect of research. This can be done alone, but works well in a group because hav­ing a sys­tem­atic approach…

  • Think­ing Things — Revi­sion­ing 

    Our abil­ity is dic­tated by our will to prac­tice. “Think­ing Things” is an ever evolv­ing set of tools designed to allow users to “make space”; space to…

  • Toulmin’s argu­ment model 

    Claim | Rebut­tal | Grounds | War­rant | Back­ing | Modal qual­i­fier Stephen Toul­min, an Eng­lish philoso­pher and logi­cian, iden­ti­fied ele­ments of a…

• decon­struc­tion 
  • A Brief Explo­sion 

    Note: you might want to med­i­tate on this You receive a brief or have an idea which you think is worth­while tak­ing for­ward. Here are some meth­ods to…

  • Close Read­ing 

    How to Do a Close Read­ing The process of writ­ing an essay usu­ally begins with the close read­ing of a text. Of course, the writer’s per­sonal expe­ri­ence may…

  • Col­lage 

    A col­lage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a work of for­mal art, pri­mar­ily in the visual arts, made from an assem­blage of dif­fer­ent forms, thus…

  • Con­cept Maps 

    A con­cept map is made by link­ing ideas together by lines. Con­cepts can be links by mul­ti­ple lines to other con­cepts. A piece of soft­ware for this pur­pose is…

  • Decap­su­late 

    Inspi­ra­tion came from a trip to the Impe­r­ial War museum, look­ing at the ‘Devil’ tank. Inside the engine is open for the dri­ver to have easy access to it to…

  • Defa­mil­iari­sa­tion 

    Shklovsky is per­haps best known for devel­op­ing the con­cept of otstra­ne­nie or defa­mil­iar­iza­tion (also trans­lated as “estrange­ment”) in lit­er­a­ture. He explained…

  • Flow Charts 

    A flow­chart is a type of dia­gram that rep­re­sents an algo­rithm or process, show­ing the steps as boxes of var­i­ous kinds, and their order by con­nect­ing these with…

  • Spec­u­la­tive Real­ism 

    This recent philo­soph­i­cal move­ment rejects ‘Cor­re­la­tion­ism’ which is a priv­i­leg­ing of a subject-object way of under­stand­ing the world. The ben­e­fit is to change…

• dia­logic 
  • Cul­tural Probes 

    A cul­tural probe is an object or strat­egy that enters into the every­day exis­tence of ‘the other’ and gen­er­ates con­tent and feed­back around a particular…

  • Dis­cuss with ‘the other’ 

    A min­i­mum of two peo­ple are required in order to have a dia­logue over a par­tic­u­lar sub­ject, brief, topic, emo­tion, obser­va­tion. Two or more peo­ple sit…

  • Spec­u­la­tive Real­ism 

    This recent philo­soph­i­cal move­ment rejects ‘Cor­re­la­tion­ism’ which is a priv­i­leg­ing of a subject-object way of under­stand­ing the world. The ben­e­fit is to change…

• draw­ing 
  • A Brief Explo­sion 

    Note: you might want to med­i­tate on this You receive a brief or have an idea which you think is worth­while tak­ing for­ward. Here are some meth­ods to…

  • Direc­tion­ally extended mind map 

    Take the reg­u­lar mind map­ping con­cept and allow the mind map to grow whichever way it feels. For exam­ple, allow  a par­tic­u­lar con­cept to grow and keep adding…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Exquis­ite corpse 

    Exquis­ite corpse, also known as exquis­ite cadaver (from the orig­i­nal French term cadavre exquis) or rotat­ing corpse, is a method by which a col­lec­tion of…

  • Mind Map­ping 

    A mind map is usu­ally done by one per­son although it could be used to col­lect ideas from  a group brain­storm­ing ses­sion. A mind map is a dia­gram of ideas…

  • Obser­va­tion Research Design 

    Con­sid­er­ing the Leve­b­vre model of  research take the descrip­tive obser­va­tion pri­mary research part and take that as the exer­cise. Struc­ture all the ways in…

  • Story Cubes 

    This method can be done alone or in a group. Con­struct a sim­ple schematic for a cube, like so: Cre­ate a num­ber of these, say four, and choose a context…

  • Think­ing Things 

    A group of peo­ple sit at a table. A large sheet of paper is laid out on the table. On it is drawn three large cir­cles and the whole thing is split into 6…

• eco­log­i­cal 
  • Con­cept Maps 

    A con­cept map is made by link­ing ideas together by lines. Con­cepts can be links by mul­ti­ple lines to other con­cepts. A piece of soft­ware for this pur­pose is…

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

  • Spec­u­la­tive Real­ism 

    This recent philo­soph­i­cal move­ment rejects ‘Cor­re­la­tion­ism’ which is a priv­i­leg­ing of a subject-object way of under­stand­ing the world. The ben­e­fit is to change…

  • TED Talks 

    TED (Tech­nol­ogy Enter­tain­ment and Design) is a global set of con­fer­ences owned by the pri­vate non-profit Sapling Foun­da­tion, formed to disseminate…

• energy 
  • Col­lage 

    A col­lage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a work of for­mal art, pri­mar­ily in the visual arts, made from an assem­blage of dif­fer­ent forms, thus…

  • Direc­tion­ally extended mind map 

    Take the reg­u­lar mind map­ping con­cept and allow the mind map to grow whichever way it feels. For exam­ple, allow  a par­tic­u­lar con­cept to grow and keep adding…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Ran­dom Ele­ments 

    Dur­ing your every­day life, cap­ture things (objects or per­haps media using a smart­phone or brows­ing a web­site). Col­late all of these ele­ments where you…

  • Role Play / The­atre 

    An exper­i­men­tal space for behav­ing in a struc­tured way out­side of what is con­sid­ered socially nor­mal and proper but nor­mally within the semi­otic frame­work of…

  • Self-composed music 

    Com­pose some music by your­self or in a group. You can use free soft­ware, avail­able instru­ments, cre­ate your own instru­ments or any kind of objects which emit…

  • Sys­tem­atic Research 

    Develop a log­i­cal sys­tem for con­duct­ing a par­tic­u­lar aspect of research. This can be done alone, but works well in a group because hav­ing a sys­tem­atic approach…

• ethnog­ra­phy 
  • Ethno­graphic Research Method­ol­ogy 

    A bicy­cle  is a great mode of trans­port. You can visit strange areas oth­er­wise inac­ces­si­ble. A moun­tain bike allows ever fur­ther off road possibilities. …

• film 
  • Dogme 95 

    The goal of the Dogme col­lec­tive is to purify film­mak­ing by refus­ing expen­sive and spec­tac­u­lar spe­cial effects, post­pro­duc­tion mod­i­fi­ca­tions and other…

  • Obser­va­tion Film­mak­ing 

    Obser­va­tion film­mak­ing gen­er­ally gives a reflec­tion of the men­tal state and vision of the film­maker. It is may be a chal­lenge for the viewer but the aim is to…

  • Prod­uct by Process Videos 

    Videos of things being made are as inter­est­ing if not more to watch than the fin­ished items them­selves. http://bencollette.com/productbyprocess/

• futur­ol­ogy 
  • Jacque Fresco 

    A designer, engi­neer and futur­ol­o­gist who is the founder of ‘The Venus Project’

• geo­graph­i­cal 
  • Lefebvre’s Research Method 

    Descrip­tive (pri­mary research): Obser­va­tion Observe prac­tices through pho­tog­ra­phy, film, sketch­ing. For exam­ple what con­sti­tutes an open prod­uct, a game,…

  • Maps 

    A map is a visual rep­re­sen­ta­tion of an area—a sym­bolic depic­tion high­light­ing rela­tion­ships between ele­ments of that space such as objects, regions, and…

  • Psy­cho­geog­ra­phy 

    Psy­cho­geog­ra­phy is the process whereby an indi­vid­ual or a group of peo­ple go on a jour­ney through a space or envi­ron­ment. It is inspired by the Situationist…

  • Ran­dom Ele­ments 

    Dur­ing your every­day life, cap­ture things (objects or per­haps media using a smart­phone or brows­ing a web­site). Col­late all of these ele­ments where you…

• graph­ics 
  • Flow Charts 

    A flow­chart is a type of dia­gram that rep­re­sents an algo­rithm or process, show­ing the steps as boxes of var­i­ous kinds, and their order by con­nect­ing these with…

  • Mod­ernist / Min­i­mal­ist 

    Mod­ern, grid based graphic design. Process: Def­i­nite logic com­bined with exper­i­men­ta­tion whilst main­tain­ing this cen­tral logic. Dis­till a subject…

• group 
  • 6–5-3 method 

    This method is suited to groups of around six peo­ple. Each group mem­ber receives three cards and writes one idea on each. The three cards are then…

  • Brain­storm­ing with post-it notes 

    This is a ‘nom­i­nal group tech­nique’ ver­sion of brain­storm­ing. (“Nom­i­nal group” means that peo­ple are nom­i­nally in a group but mostly work on their own) Each…

  • Dis­cuss with ‘the other’ 

    A min­i­mum of two peo­ple are required in order to have a dia­logue over a par­tic­u­lar sub­ject, brief, topic, emo­tion, obser­va­tion. Two or more peo­ple sit…

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

  • Role Play / The­atre 

    An exper­i­men­tal space for behav­ing in a struc­tured way out­side of what is con­sid­ered socially nor­mal and proper but nor­mally within the semi­otic frame­work of…

  • Story Cubes 

    This method can be done alone or in a group. Con­struct a sim­ple schematic for a cube, like so: Cre­ate a num­ber of these, say four, and choose a context…

  • Sys­tem­atic Research 

    Develop a log­i­cal sys­tem for con­duct­ing a par­tic­u­lar aspect of research. This can be done alone, but works well in a group because hav­ing a sys­tem­atic approach…

  • Think­ing Things 

    A group of peo­ple sit at a table. A large sheet of paper is laid out on the table. On it is drawn three large cir­cles and the whole thing is split into 6…

• hack­tivism 
  • Decap­su­late 

    Inspi­ra­tion came from a trip to the Impe­r­ial War museum, look­ing at the ‘Devil’ tank. Inside the engine is open for the dri­ver to have easy access to it to…

  • Fash­ion Hack­tivism 

    Fash­ion Hack­tivism, the brain­child of Otto Von Busch, is when, usu­ally  a fash­ion­able item of cloth­ing from an expen­sive known brand, is then changed by the…

• ideation 
  • 6–5-3 method 

    This method is suited to groups of around six peo­ple. Each group mem­ber receives three cards and writes one idea on each. The three cards are then…

  • Brain­storm­ing with post-it notes 

    This is a ‘nom­i­nal group tech­nique’ ver­sion of brain­storm­ing. (“Nom­i­nal group” means that peo­ple are nom­i­nally in a group but mostly work on their own) Each…

  • Con­cept Maps 

    A con­cept map is made by link­ing ideas together by lines. Con­cepts can be links by mul­ti­ple lines to other con­cepts. A piece of soft­ware for this pur­pose is…

  • Cul­tural Probes 

    A cul­tural probe is an object or strat­egy that enters into the every­day exis­tence of ‘the other’ and gen­er­ates con­tent and feed­back around a particular…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Exer­cises in Style 

    Exer­cises in Style was a book writ­ten by Ray­mond Que­neau. In it he writes a sit­u­a­tion that he observed in over 100 dif­fer­ent writ­ten styles. Notation…

  • Exhaus­tive list 

    An exhaus­tive list is a way to get down on paper a list of things which oth­er­wise would be kept in the short term mem­ory and would risk being for­got­ten. Make…

  • Exquis­ite corpse 

    Exquis­ite corpse, also known as exquis­ite cadaver (from the orig­i­nal French term cadavre exquis) or rotat­ing corpse, is a method by which a col­lec­tion of…

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

  • Mind Map­ping 

    A mind map is usu­ally done by one per­son although it could be used to col­lect ideas from  a group brain­storm­ing ses­sion. A mind map is a dia­gram of ideas…

  • Oblique Strate­gies 

    In 1975 the late British artist Peter Schmidt and musician/composer Brian Eno cre­ated the orig­i­nal pack of Oblique Strate­gies cards based on their working…

  • Spec­u­la­tive Real­ism 

    This recent philo­soph­i­cal move­ment rejects ‘Cor­re­la­tion­ism’ which is a priv­i­leg­ing of a subject-object way of under­stand­ing the world. The ben­e­fit is to change…

  • TED Talks 

    TED (Tech­nol­ogy Enter­tain­ment and Design) is a global set of con­fer­ences owned by the pri­vate non-profit Sapling Foun­da­tion, formed to disseminate…

• Imag­i­na­tion 
  • Brain­storm­ing with post-it notes 

    This is a ‘nom­i­nal group tech­nique’ ver­sion of brain­storm­ing. (“Nom­i­nal group” means that peo­ple are nom­i­nally in a group but mostly work on their own) Each…

  • Con­cept Maps 

    A con­cept map is made by link­ing ideas together by lines. Con­cepts can be links by mul­ti­ple lines to other con­cepts. A piece of soft­ware for this pur­pose is…

  • Dis­ney 

    Dis­ney is one of the most suc­cess­ful media empires ever and Walt Dis­ney is known for hav­ing a cer­tain phi­los­o­phy and approach. He is also known for being…

• infor­ma­tion 
  • Alter­na­tive media 

    Con­sult alter­na­tive media. Alter­na­tive media is that which is not cor­po­rately owned, usu­ally inde­pen­dent, often crowd-sourced, often pro­vided by reg­u­lar people…

  • Brain­storm­ing with post-it notes 

    This is a ‘nom­i­nal group tech­nique’ ver­sion of brain­storm­ing. (“Nom­i­nal group” means that peo­ple are nom­i­nally in a group but mostly work on their own) Each…

  • Con­cept Maps 

    A con­cept map is made by link­ing ideas together by lines. Con­cepts can be links by mul­ti­ple lines to other con­cepts. A piece of soft­ware for this pur­pose is…

  • Cul­tural Probes 

    A cul­tural probe is an object or strat­egy that enters into the every­day exis­tence of ‘the other’ and gen­er­ates con­tent and feed­back around a particular…

  • Deli­cious Tags 

    Deli­cious (for­merly del.icio.us, pro­nounced “deli­cious”) is a social book­mark­ing web ser­vice for stor­ing, shar­ing, and dis­cov­er­ing web bookmarks.1 I started…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • f(x) func­tion 

    Con­struct a func­tion. A func­tion returns a value.  In design some object, or space, may have a func­tion. A func­tion has a set of rules which deter­mine it’s…

  • Flow Charts 

    A flow­chart is a type of dia­gram that rep­re­sents an algo­rithm or process, show­ing the steps as boxes of var­i­ous kinds, and their order by con­nect­ing these with…

  • How do you want to live? 

    As your­self the ques­tion. Dis­cuss the ques­tion in a group. Com­bine this with storycubes.

  • Maps 

    A map is a visual rep­re­sen­ta­tion of an area—a sym­bolic depic­tion high­light­ing rela­tion­ships between ele­ments of that space such as objects, regions, and…

  • Spec­u­la­tive research 

    You can do this before start­ing research. It is a way to find a point of fix­ity before delv­ing into the research and open­ing the can of worms. Con­sider the…

  • Think­ing Things 

    A group of peo­ple sit at a table. A large sheet of paper is laid out on the table. On it is drawn three large cir­cles and the whole thing is split into 6…

• life­cy­cle 
  • Back Cast­ing 

    You imag­ine that the future has arrived and the prob­lem has been solved or the out­come has been achieved.Then you look back at the sig­nif­i­cant steps you…

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

  • Think­ing Things — Revi­sion­ing 

    Our abil­ity is dic­tated by our will to prac­tice. “Think­ing Things” is an ever evolv­ing set of tools designed to allow users to “make space”; space to…

• lin­guis­tic 
  • Lin­guis­tic Play­ful­ness 

    This is some­thing which can be done either alone or in a group. It can be done as an ideation tool but also poten­tially to cre­ate a final prod­uct. There are…

  • NLP 

    What is NLP? NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Pro­gram­ming, a name that encom­passes the three most influ­en­tial com­po­nents involved in pro­duc­ing human…

  • Sto­ries, Nov­els and Leg­ends 

    A novel is a book of long nar­ra­tive in lit­er­ary prose. (Wikipedia) A novel can be used to envi­sion pos­si­ble future sce­nar­ios. To think com­plexly and…

• lit­er­a­ture 
  • Exer­cises in Style 

    Exer­cises in Style was a book writ­ten by Ray­mond Que­neau. In it he writes a sit­u­a­tion that he observed in over 100 dif­fer­ent writ­ten styles. Notation…

• log­i­cal 
  • Flow Charts 

    A flow­chart is a type of dia­gram that rep­re­sents an algo­rithm or process, show­ing the steps as boxes of var­i­ous kinds, and their order by con­nect­ing these with…

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

  • What do you have to do to get there from the here and now? 

    This is some­thing which involves envi­sion­ing a dif­fer­ent ‘state’ of being, place, event, object and then work­ing out what you have to do to get there. For…

• mak­ing 
  • Cul­tural Probes 

    A cul­tural probe is an object or strat­egy that enters into the every­day exis­tence of ‘the other’ and gen­er­ates con­tent and feed­back around a particular…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Infi­nite ideas 

    Keep on gen­er­at­ing ideas through­out the process, quickly mock up pro­to­types and do tests along the way. This idea is aims to move the focus away from…

  • Open Source Ecol­ogy 

    By weav­ing open source per­ma­cul­tural and tech­no­log­i­cal cycles together, we intend to pro­vide basic human needs while being good stew­ards of the land, using…

• man­i­festo 
  • Dogme 95 

    The goal of the Dogme col­lec­tive is to purify film­mak­ing by refus­ing expen­sive and spec­tac­u­lar spe­cial effects, post­pro­duc­tion mod­i­fi­ca­tions and other…

  • Dunne & Raby Man­i­festo 

    Ref­er­ences: Dunne & Raby Man­i­festo,  Avail­able at <http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk/content/projects/476/0>. .

• mate­ri­al­ity 
  • Shapes 

    Plato’s The­ory of Forms stated that the abstract ideas of shapes was more impor­tant for knowl­edge than the mate­r­ial world of sen­sa­tion. It could be said that…

• math 
  • f(x) func­tion 

    Con­struct a func­tion. A func­tion returns a value.  In design some object, or space, may have a func­tion. A func­tion has a set of rules which deter­mine it’s…

• med­i­ta­tion 
  • Con­scious­ness Tools 

    A set of see­ing, act­ing and being tools, which allow the user to be able to become more con­scious of their sur­round­ings, make their lives more adven­tur­ous, get…

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

  • Hang­ing out with the ‘I’ thought 

    This is a sec­tion from my first book from my Ride Earth bicy­cle trav­els: We arrive in Budapest and stay with a curi­ous fel­low who lives in a Yurt called…

  • Med­i­ta­tion 

    Osho was an Indian guru and teacher. http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=Meditation&Language=English

  • Obser­va­tion Research Design 

    Con­sid­er­ing the Leve­b­vre model of  research take the descrip­tive obser­va­tion pri­mary research part and take that as the exer­cise. Struc­ture all the ways in…

  • Self-composed music 

    Com­pose some music by your­self or in a group. You can use free soft­ware, avail­able instru­ments, cre­ate your own instru­ments or any kind of objects which emit…

  • Spec­u­la­tive research 

    You can do this before start­ing research. It is a way to find a point of fix­ity before delv­ing into the research and open­ing the can of worms. Con­sider the…

  • Sto­ries, Nov­els and Leg­ends 

    A novel is a book of long nar­ra­tive in lit­er­ary prose. (Wikipedia) A novel can be used to envi­sion pos­si­ble future sce­nar­ios. To think com­plexly and…

  • The Jump 

    This is a tech­nique which can be done prob­a­bly in a group some­how, but mainly I would think it would be a men­tal or visual exer­cise. Ini­tially it would be…

• mem­ory 
  • Cicero’s “Loci” mnemonic sys­tem in con­sec­u­tive inter­pret­ing  

    To use the method of loci, asso­ciate items you wish to remem­ber later with loca­tions of a famil­iar room, build­ing, or street, then to retrieve the…

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

• nar­ra­tive 
  • A Brief Explo­sion 

    Note: you might want to med­i­tate on this You receive a brief or have an idea which you think is worth­while tak­ing for­ward. Here are some meth­ods to…

  • Anno­tated pho­tos 

    Take a bunch of pho­tos and make a point of nam­ing and describ­ing each one.

  • Direc­tion­ally extended mind map 

    Take the reg­u­lar mind map­ping con­cept and allow the mind map to grow whichever way it feels. For exam­ple, allow  a par­tic­u­lar con­cept to grow and keep adding…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

  • Spec­u­la­tive Real­ism 

    This recent philo­soph­i­cal move­ment rejects ‘Cor­re­la­tion­ism’ which is a priv­i­leg­ing of a subject-object way of under­stand­ing the world. The ben­e­fit is to change…

  • Story Cubes 

    This method can be done alone or in a group. Con­struct a sim­ple schematic for a cube, like so: Cre­ate a num­ber of these, say four, and choose a context…

  • What do you have to do to get there from the here and now? 

    This is some­thing which involves envi­sion­ing a dif­fer­ent ‘state’ of being, place, event, object and then work­ing out what you have to do to get there. For…

• net­work 
  • Six Degrees of Sep­a­ra­tion 

    Six degrees of sep­a­ra­tion (also referred to as the “Human Web”) refers to the idea that every­one is on aver­age approx­i­mately six steps away from any other…

• obser­va­tion 
  • A Brief Explo­sion 

    Note: you might want to med­i­tate on this You receive a brief or have an idea which you think is worth­while tak­ing for­ward. Here are some meth­ods to…

  • Close Read­ing 

    How to Do a Close Read­ing The process of writ­ing an essay usu­ally begins with the close read­ing of a text. Of course, the writer’s per­sonal expe­ri­ence may…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

  • Going to the Zoo 

    Pre­tend all humans are ani­mals and the city is the zoo. Iden­tify ani­mal qual­i­ties in humans and human qual­i­ties in ani­mals. What is miss­ing from human…

  • Hang­ing out with the ‘I’ thought 

    This is a sec­tion from my first book from my Ride Earth bicy­cle trav­els: We arrive in Budapest and stay with a curi­ous fel­low who lives in a Yurt called…

  • Lefebvre’s Research Method 

    Descrip­tive (pri­mary research): Obser­va­tion Observe prac­tices through pho­tog­ra­phy, film, sketch­ing. For exam­ple what con­sti­tutes an open prod­uct, a game,…

  • Obser­va­tion Film­mak­ing 

    Obser­va­tion film­mak­ing gen­er­ally gives a reflec­tion of the men­tal state and vision of the film­maker. It is may be a chal­lenge for the viewer but the aim is to…

  • Obser­va­tion Research Design 

    Con­sid­er­ing the Leve­b­vre model of  research take the descrip­tive obser­va­tion pri­mary research part and take that as the exer­cise. Struc­ture all the ways in…

  • Psy­cho­geog­ra­phy 

    Psy­cho­geog­ra­phy is the process whereby an indi­vid­ual or a group of peo­ple go on a jour­ney through a space or envi­ron­ment. It is inspired by the Situationist…

  • Ran­dom Ele­ments 

    Dur­ing your every­day life, cap­ture things (objects or per­haps media using a smart­phone or brows­ing a web­site). Col­late all of these ele­ments where you…

  • Spec­tac­u­lar Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion 

    Look for all, in the Debor­dian sense, Spec­tac­u­lar ele­ments. What things rein­force the instinct to be entranced and awed by spec­ta­cles. What are the…

  • Story Cubes 

    This method can be done alone or in a group. Con­struct a sim­ple schematic for a cube, like so: Cre­ate a num­ber of these, say four, and choose a context…

  • Sys­tem­atic Research 

    Develop a log­i­cal sys­tem for con­duct­ing a par­tic­u­lar aspect of research. This can be done alone, but works well in a group because hav­ing a sys­tem­atic approach…

  • Think­ing Things 

    A group of peo­ple sit at a table. A large sheet of paper is laid out on the table. On it is drawn three large cir­cles and the whole thing is split into 6…

• open source 
  • Decap­su­late 

    Inspi­ra­tion came from a trip to the Impe­r­ial War museum, look­ing at the ‘Devil’ tank. Inside the engine is open for the dri­ver to have easy access to it to…

  • Fash­ion Hack­tivism 

    Fash­ion Hack­tivism, the brain­child of Otto Von Busch, is when, usu­ally  a fash­ion­able item of cloth­ing from an expen­sive known brand, is then changed by the…

  • Write the instruc­tions on the out­side 

    Inspi­ra­tion came from a trip to the Impe­r­ial war museum. Some guns had the instruc­tions embossed on plaques on the side of them. Pre­sum­ably their oper­a­tion was…

• Play­ful 
  • Exquis­ite corpse 

    Exquis­ite corpse, also known as exquis­ite cadaver (from the orig­i­nal French term cadavre exquis) or rotat­ing corpse, is a method by which a col­lec­tion of…

• prac­ti­cal 
  • A Brief Explo­sion 

    Note: you might want to med­i­tate on this You receive a brief or have an idea which you think is worth­while tak­ing for­ward. Here are some meth­ods to…

  • Brain­storm­ing with post-it notes 

    This is a ‘nom­i­nal group tech­nique’ ver­sion of brain­storm­ing. (“Nom­i­nal group” means that peo­ple are nom­i­nally in a group but mostly work on their own) Each…

  • Col­lage 

    A col­lage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a work of for­mal art, pri­mar­ily in the visual arts, made from an assem­blage of dif­fer­ent forms, thus…

  • Cul­tural Probes 

    A cul­tural probe is an object or strat­egy that enters into the every­day exis­tence of ‘the other’ and gen­er­ates con­tent and feed­back around a particular…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Exhaus­tive list 

    An exhaus­tive list is a way to get down on paper a list of things which oth­er­wise would be kept in the short term mem­ory and would risk being for­got­ten. Make…

  • Forms through Sound (Cymat­ics) 

    Audio could be approached from the point of view of it’s ben­e­fit as a trans­fer of energy and indeed form:

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

  • How do you want to live? 

    As your­self the ques­tion. Dis­cuss the ques­tion in a group. Com­bine this with storycubes.

  • Lefebvre’s Research Method 

    Descrip­tive (pri­mary research): Obser­va­tion Observe prac­tices through pho­tog­ra­phy, film, sketch­ing. For exam­ple what con­sti­tutes an open prod­uct, a game,…

  • Obser­va­tion Research Design 

    Con­sid­er­ing the Leve­b­vre model of  research take the descrip­tive obser­va­tion pri­mary research part and take that as the exer­cise. Struc­ture all the ways in…

  • Open Source Ecol­ogy 

    By weav­ing open source per­ma­cul­tural and tech­no­log­i­cal cycles together, we intend to pro­vide basic human needs while being good stew­ards of the land, using…

  • Phys­i­cal Geo­t­ag­ging 

    Cre­ate a map on paper, or model form. Con­duct a pho­to­graphic sur­vey like the exam­ple in ‘sys­tem­atic research’. Print out con­tact sheet style pages of the…

  • Ran­dom Ele­ments 

    Dur­ing your every­day life, cap­ture things (objects or per­haps media using a smart­phone or brows­ing a web­site). Col­late all of these ele­ments where you…

  • Sym­bols 

    Con­sider the sym­bols that gov­ern mean­ing. Look for sym­bols in every­day life. How is mean­ing coded? A sym­bol library of an envi­ron­ment can be recorded using…

  • Sys­tem­atic Research 

    Develop a log­i­cal sys­tem for con­duct­ing a par­tic­u­lar aspect of research. This can be done alone, but works well in a group because hav­ing a sys­tem­atic approach…

• process 
  • A Brief Explo­sion 

    Note: you might want to med­i­tate on this You receive a brief or have an idea which you think is worth­while tak­ing for­ward. Here are some meth­ods to…

  • Art Gallery 

    Each group mem­ber makes a draw­ing or pic­ture of some sort. (Each pic­ture could be a group effort, if required.) Put the pic­tures on the wall to create…

  • Auto­mate 

    Automa­tion is the use of con­trol sys­tems and infor­ma­tion tech­nolo­gies to reduce the need for human work in the pro­duc­tion of goods and ser­vices. In the scope…

  • Brain­storm­ing with post-it notes 

    This is a ‘nom­i­nal group tech­nique’ ver­sion of brain­storm­ing. (“Nom­i­nal group” means that peo­ple are nom­i­nally in a group but mostly work on their own) Each…

  • Col­lage 

    A col­lage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a work of for­mal art, pri­mar­ily in the visual arts, made from an assem­blage of dif­fer­ent forms, thus…

  • Col­lage of book con­tent 

    A col­lage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a work of for­mal art, pri­mar­ily in the visual arts, made from an assem­blage of dif­fer­ent forms, thus cre­at­ing a…

  • Cul­tural Probes 

    A cul­tural probe is an object or strat­egy that enters into the every­day exis­tence of ‘the other’ and gen­er­ates con­tent and feed­back around a particular…

  • Decap­su­late 

    Inspi­ra­tion came from a trip to the Impe­r­ial War museum, look­ing at the ‘Devil’ tank. Inside the engine is open for the dri­ver to have easy access to it to…

  • Direc­tion­ally extended mind map 

    Take the reg­u­lar mind map­ping con­cept and allow the mind map to grow whichever way it feels. For exam­ple, allow  a par­tic­u­lar con­cept to grow and keep adding…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Exhaus­tive list 

    An exhaus­tive list is a way to get down on paper a list of things which oth­er­wise would be kept in the short term mem­ory and would risk being for­got­ten. Make…

  • f(x) func­tion 

    Con­struct a func­tion. A func­tion returns a value.  In design some object, or space, may have a func­tion. A func­tion has a set of rules which deter­mine it’s…

  • Flow Charts 

    A flow­chart is a type of dia­gram that rep­re­sents an algo­rithm or process, show­ing the steps as boxes of var­i­ous kinds, and their order by con­nect­ing these with…

  • Forms through Sound (Cymat­ics) 

    Audio could be approached from the point of view of it’s ben­e­fit as a trans­fer of energy and indeed form:

  • Going to the Zoo 

    Pre­tend all humans are ani­mals and the city is the zoo. Iden­tify ani­mal qual­i­ties in humans and human qual­i­ties in ani­mals. What is miss­ing from human…

  • Hang­ing out with the ‘I’ thought 

    This is a sec­tion from my first book from my Ride Earth bicy­cle trav­els: We arrive in Budapest and stay with a curi­ous fel­low who lives in a Yurt called…

  • How do you want to live? 

    As your­self the ques­tion. Dis­cuss the ques­tion in a group. Com­bine this with storycubes.

  • Infi­nite ideas 

    Keep on gen­er­at­ing ideas through­out the process, quickly mock up pro­to­types and do tests along the way. This idea is aims to move the focus away from…

  • Lefebvre’s Research Method 

    Descrip­tive (pri­mary research): Obser­va­tion Observe prac­tices through pho­tog­ra­phy, film, sketch­ing. For exam­ple what con­sti­tutes an open prod­uct, a game,…

  • Mind Map­ping 

    A mind map is usu­ally done by one per­son although it could be used to col­lect ideas from  a group brain­storm­ing ses­sion. A mind map is a dia­gram of ideas…

  • Oblique Strate­gies 

    In 1975 the late British artist Peter Schmidt and musician/composer Brian Eno cre­ated the orig­i­nal pack of Oblique Strate­gies cards based on their working…

  • Obser­va­tion Research Design 

    Con­sid­er­ing the Leve­b­vre model of  research take the descrip­tive obser­va­tion pri­mary research part and take that as the exer­cise. Struc­ture all the ways in…

  • Phys­i­cal Geo­t­ag­ging 

    Cre­ate a map on paper, or model form. Con­duct a pho­to­graphic sur­vey like the exam­ple in ‘sys­tem­atic research’. Print out con­tact sheet style pages of the…

  • Prod­uct by Process Videos 

    Videos of things being made are as inter­est­ing if not more to watch than the fin­ished items them­selves. http://bencollette.com/productbyprocess/

  • Ran­dom Ele­ments 

    Dur­ing your every­day life, cap­ture things (objects or per­haps media using a smart­phone or brows­ing a web­site). Col­late all of these ele­ments where you…

  • Spec­u­la­tive research 

    You can do this before start­ing research. It is a way to find a point of fix­ity before delv­ing into the research and open­ing the can of worms. Con­sider the…

  • Sys­tem­atic Research 

    Develop a log­i­cal sys­tem for con­duct­ing a par­tic­u­lar aspect of research. This can be done alone, but works well in a group because hav­ing a sys­tem­atic approach…

  • What do you have to do to get there from the here and now? 

    This is some­thing which involves envi­sion­ing a dif­fer­ent ‘state’ of being, place, event, object and then work­ing out what you have to do to get there. For…

• prod­uct 
  • Cul­tural Probes 

    A cul­tural probe is an object or strat­egy that enters into the every­day exis­tence of ‘the other’ and gen­er­ates con­tent and feed­back around a particular…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Think­ing Things — Revi­sion­ing 

    Our abil­ity is dic­tated by our will to prac­tice. “Think­ing Things” is an ever evolv­ing set of tools designed to allow users to “make space”; space to…

• Pro­duc­tiv­ity 
  • Min­i­mal Zen Things Done 

    In order to organ­ise your thoughts and your time try the fol­low­ing approach adapted from Zen Habits. Cap­ture. Get a note­book and carry it every­where. Write…

• pro­gram­ming 
  • f(x) func­tion 

    Con­struct a func­tion. A func­tion returns a value.  In design some object, or space, may have a func­tion. A func­tion has a set of rules which deter­mine it’s…

• psy­cho­log­i­cal 
  • Iden­tify fan­tasy 

    A fan­tasy is a sit­u­a­tion imag­ined by an indi­vid­ual or group that has no basis in real­ity but expresses cer­tain desires or aims on the part of its creator.…

  • NLP 

    What is NLP? NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Pro­gram­ming, a name that encom­passes the three most influ­en­tial com­po­nents involved in pro­duc­ing human…

  • Psy­cho­geog­ra­phy 

    Psy­cho­geog­ra­phy is the process whereby an indi­vid­ual or a group of peo­ple go on a jour­ney through a space or envi­ron­ment. It is inspired by the Situationist…

  • Think­ing Things 

    A group of peo­ple sit at a table. A large sheet of paper is laid out on the table. On it is drawn three large cir­cles and the whole thing is split into 6…

  • You are the prob­lem 

    Imag­ine you are the prob­lem or issue under con­sid­er­a­tion. How do you feel? How would you rather feel? Broadly, what would it take to cre­ate this new…

• qual­i­ta­tive 
  • Lefebvre’s Research Method 

    Descrip­tive (pri­mary research): Obser­va­tion Observe prac­tices through pho­tog­ra­phy, film, sketch­ing. For exam­ple what con­sti­tutes an open prod­uct, a game,…

  • Psy­cho­geog­ra­phy 

    Psy­cho­geog­ra­phy is the process whereby an indi­vid­ual or a group of peo­ple go on a jour­ney through a space or envi­ron­ment. It is inspired by the Situationist…

  • Story Cubes 

    This method can be done alone or in a group. Con­struct a sim­ple schematic for a cube, like so: Cre­ate a num­ber of these, say four, and choose a context…

  • Think­ing Things 

    A group of peo­ple sit at a table. A large sheet of paper is laid out on the table. On it is drawn three large cir­cles and the whole thing is split into 6…

• re-appropriation 
  • Dou­ble Cod­ing 

    Dou­ble cod­ing is using ele­ment from the past mixed with ele­ments from the present but appro­pri­at­ing the ele­ments from the past build­ing in a recog­ni­tion of the…

• re-present 
  • Con­cept Maps 

    A con­cept map is made by link­ing ideas together by lines. Con­cepts can be links by mul­ti­ple lines to other con­cepts. A piece of soft­ware for this pur­pose is…

  • Detourne­ment 

    A détourne­ment is a vari­a­tion on a pre­vi­ous media work, in which the newly cre­ated one has a mean­ing that is antag­o­nis­tic or anti­thet­i­cal to the original.

  • Dou­ble Cod­ing 

    Dou­ble cod­ing is using ele­ment from the past mixed with ele­ments from the present but appro­pri­at­ing the ele­ments from the past build­ing in a recog­ni­tion of the…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

• reflec­tive 
  • Close Read­ing 

    How to Do a Close Read­ing The process of writ­ing an essay usu­ally begins with the close read­ing of a text. Of course, the writer’s per­sonal expe­ri­ence may…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Hang­ing out with the ‘I’ thought 

    This is a sec­tion from my first book from my Ride Earth bicy­cle trav­els: We arrive in Budapest and stay with a curi­ous fel­low who lives in a Yurt called…

  • How do you want to live? 

    As your­self the ques­tion. Dis­cuss the ques­tion in a group. Com­bine this with storycubes.

  • How does the prob­lem relate to your prac­tice? 

    Before you know how any­thing relates to you, it’s good to under­stand your prac­tice. What is your prac­tice? Doing my own work and being able to eat Jour…

  • Lin­guis­tic Play­ful­ness 

    This is some­thing which can be done either alone or in a group. It can be done as an ideation tool but also poten­tially to cre­ate a final prod­uct. There are…

  • NLP 

    What is NLP? NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Pro­gram­ming, a name that encom­passes the three most influ­en­tial com­po­nents involved in pro­duc­ing human…

  • Phys­i­cal Geo­t­ag­ging 

    Cre­ate a map on paper, or model form. Con­duct a pho­to­graphic sur­vey like the exam­ple in ‘sys­tem­atic research’. Print out con­tact sheet style pages of the…

  • Self-composed music 

    Com­pose some music by your­self or in a group. You can use free soft­ware, avail­able instru­ments, cre­ate your own instru­ments or any kind of objects which emit…

  • Sys­tem­atic Research 

    Develop a log­i­cal sys­tem for con­duct­ing a par­tic­u­lar aspect of research. This can be done alone, but works well in a group because hav­ing a sys­tem­atic approach…

  • Where are we at now? 

    Do an eval­u­a­tion of the cur­rent stage of the project, tak­ing into account all avail­able infor­ma­tion. The aim of this should be to ‘reign in’ and reeval­u­ate the…

  • You are the prob­lem 

    Imag­ine you are the prob­lem or issue under con­sid­er­a­tion. How do you feel? How would you rather feel? Broadly, what would it take to cre­ate this new…

• research 
  • Bench­mark­ing 

    Bench­mark­ing is an improve­ment process in which a com­pany mea­sures its per­for­mance against that of best in class com­pa­nies, deter­mines how those companies…

  • Going to the Zoo 

    Pre­tend all humans are ani­mals and the city is the zoo. Iden­tify ani­mal qual­i­ties in humans and human qual­i­ties in ani­mals. What is miss­ing from human…

  • Iden­tify fan­tasy 

    A fan­tasy is a sit­u­a­tion imag­ined by an indi­vid­ual or group that has no basis in real­ity but expresses cer­tain desires or aims on the part of its creator.…

  • Lefebvre’s Research Method 

    Descrip­tive (pri­mary research): Obser­va­tion Observe prac­tices through pho­tog­ra­phy, film, sketch­ing. For exam­ple what con­sti­tutes an open prod­uct, a game,…

  • Sys­tem­atic Research 

    Develop a log­i­cal sys­tem for con­duct­ing a par­tic­u­lar aspect of research. This can be done alone, but works well in a group because hav­ing a sys­tem­atic approach…

• rules 
  • Con­straint 

    “In mod­ern record­ing one of the biggest prob­lems is that you’re in a world of end­less pos­si­bil­i­ties. So I try to close down pos­si­bil­i­ties early on. I limit…

  • Dieter Rams — Design Prin­ci­ples 

    1. Good Design is inno­v­a­tive It does not copy exist­ing prod­uct forms, nor does it pro­duce any kind of nov­elty for the sake of it. The essence of innovation…

  • Logo Design Process 

    A logo is a graph­i­cal ele­ment (ideogram, sym­bol, emblem, icon, sign) that, together with its logo­type (a uniquely set and arranged type­face) form a trademark…

  • Pat Burt’s Web Design Tips 

    Con­trast If you observe any design prin­ci­ple and com­pletely for­get about the oth­ers, observe con­trast. Con­trast is the dif­fer­ence between two ele­ments; the…

  • Sym­bols 

    Con­sider the sym­bols that gov­ern mean­ing. Look for sym­bols in every­day life. How is mean­ing coded? A sym­bol library of an envi­ron­ment can be recorded using…

  • Sys­tem­atic Research 

    Develop a log­i­cal sys­tem for con­duct­ing a par­tic­u­lar aspect of research. This can be done alone, but works well in a group because hav­ing a sys­tem­atic approach…

• seman­tic 
  • Con­cept Maps 

    A con­cept map is made by link­ing ideas together by lines. Con­cepts can be links by mul­ti­ple lines to other con­cepts. A piece of soft­ware for this pur­pose is…

  • Deli­cious Tags 

    Deli­cious (for­merly del.icio.us, pro­nounced “deli­cious”) is a social book­mark­ing web ser­vice for stor­ing, shar­ing, and dis­cov­er­ing web bookmarks.1 I started…

  • Lefebvre’s Research Method 

    Descrip­tive (pri­mary research): Obser­va­tion Observe prac­tices through pho­tog­ra­phy, film, sketch­ing. For exam­ple what con­sti­tutes an open prod­uct, a game,…

  • Think­ing Things 

    A group of peo­ple sit at a table. A large sheet of paper is laid out on the table. On it is drawn three large cir­cles and the whole thing is split into 6…

• spa­tial 
  • Col­lage 

    A col­lage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a work of for­mal art, pri­mar­ily in the visual arts, made from an assem­blage of dif­fer­ent forms, thus…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Maps 

    A map is a visual rep­re­sen­ta­tion of an area—a sym­bolic depic­tion high­light­ing rela­tion­ships between ele­ments of that space such as objects, regions, and…

  • Sys­tem­atic Research 

    Develop a log­i­cal sys­tem for con­duct­ing a par­tic­u­lar aspect of research. This can be done alone, but works well in a group because hav­ing a sys­tem­atic approach…

• Strate­gic 
  • Con­straint 

    “In mod­ern record­ing one of the biggest prob­lems is that you’re in a world of end­less pos­si­bil­i­ties. So I try to close down pos­si­bil­i­ties early on. I limit…

  • Dis­ney 

    Dis­ney is one of the most suc­cess­ful media empires ever and Walt Dis­ney is known for hav­ing a cer­tain phi­los­o­phy and approach. He is also known for being…

• sur­pris­ing 
  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Syn­tagm Shift 

    Using one object as another. In semi­otics, syn­tag­matic analy­sis is analy­sis of syn­tax or sur­face struc­ture (syn­tag­matic struc­ture) as opposed to paradigms…

• Sur­re­al­ism 
  • Exquis­ite corpse 

    Exquis­ite corpse, also known as exquis­ite cadaver (from the orig­i­nal French term cadavre exquis) or rotat­ing corpse, is a method by which a col­lec­tion of…

• Tech­no­log­i­cal 
  • Bench­mark­ing 

    Bench­mark­ing is an improve­ment process in which a com­pany mea­sures its per­for­mance against that of best in class com­pa­nies, deter­mines how those companies…

  • Con­cept Maps 

    A con­cept map is made by link­ing ideas together by lines. Con­cepts can be links by mul­ti­ple lines to other con­cepts. A piece of soft­ware for this pur­pose is…

  • Open Source Ecol­ogy 

    By weav­ing open source per­ma­cul­tural and tech­no­log­i­cal cycles together, we intend to pro­vide basic human needs while being good stew­ards of the land, using…

  • Reject Tech­nol­ogy 

    Lyotard — Towards the Inhuman

• the­ory 
  • Con­cept Maps 

    A con­cept map is made by link­ing ideas together by lines. Con­cepts can be links by mul­ti­ple lines to other con­cepts. A piece of soft­ware for this pur­pose is…

  • Dunne & Raby Man­i­festo 

    Ref­er­ences: Dunne & Raby Man­i­festo,  Avail­able at <http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk/content/projects/476/0>. .

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

• think­ing 
  • Brain­storm­ing with post-it notes 

    This is a ‘nom­i­nal group tech­nique’ ver­sion of brain­storm­ing. (“Nom­i­nal group” means that peo­ple are nom­i­nally in a group but mostly work on their own) Each…

  • Close Read­ing 

    How to Do a Close Read­ing The process of writ­ing an essay usu­ally begins with the close read­ing of a text. Of course, the writer’s per­sonal expe­ri­ence may…

  • Con­cept Maps 

    A con­cept map is made by link­ing ideas together by lines. Con­cepts can be links by mul­ti­ple lines to other con­cepts. A piece of soft­ware for this pur­pose is…

  • Exhaus­tive list 

    An exhaus­tive list is a way to get down on paper a list of things which oth­er­wise would be kept in the short term mem­ory and would risk being for­got­ten. Make…

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

  • Hyper­ob­jects 

    No descrip­tion found for this item.

  • Object Ori­ented Ontol­ogy 

    Ontol­ogy is the philo­soph­i­cal study of exis­tence. Object-oriented ontol­ogy (“OOO” for short) puts things at the cen­ter of this study. Its pro­po­nents contend…

  • Ques­tion­ing 

    Like Hei­deg­ger said, ques­tion­ing  builds a way. Ques­tion­ing is a major form of human thought and inter­per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tion. The thinker employs a series…

  • Six Think­ing Hats 

    Six think­ing hats are six imag­i­nary hats that you put on in order to con­sider a prob­lem or sit­u­a­tion from a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent angles in order to get a range…

  • The Essence of Tech­nol­ogy 

    Hei­deg­ger talks about the com­mon under­stand­ing of tech­nol­ogy of being some­thing that a human does in order to achieve some end. How­ever, the essence…

  • The Jump 

    This is a tech­nique which can be done prob­a­bly in a group some­how, but mainly I would think it would be a men­tal or visual exer­cise. Ini­tially it would be…

  • Think­ing Poem 

    Write a poem using the fol­low­ing thought exer­cises:- 5 Ws Facts-neutral,emotions-feelings,critic-analyst,sunshine-optimist, creative-growth,…

  • Think­ing Things 

    A group of peo­ple sit at a table. A large sheet of paper is laid out on the table. On it is drawn three large cir­cles and the whole thing is split into 6…

  • Ways of Think­ing 

    There are many dif­fer­ent styles of think­ing. Some are more pro­found, use­ful and effec­tive than oth­ers. Some are self-aware and some are a mat­ter of a lack…

• travel 
  • Psy­cho­geog­ra­phy 

    Psy­cho­geog­ra­phy is the process whereby an indi­vid­ual or a group of peo­ple go on a jour­ney through a space or envi­ron­ment. It is inspired by the Situationist…

• vision­ing 
  • Back Cast­ing 

    You imag­ine that the future has arrived and the prob­lem has been solved or the out­come has been achieved.Then you look back at the sig­nif­i­cant steps you…

  • Dis­ney 

    Dis­ney is one of the most suc­cess­ful media empires ever and Walt Dis­ney is known for hav­ing a cer­tain phi­los­o­phy and approach. He is also known for being…

  • Game for the future 

    This post is a stub and needs expand­ing. It is miss­ing the link to the site. Do we fol­low the rules of the past cen­tury and com­pete to grow, or do we…

  • Open Source Ecol­ogy 

    By weav­ing open source per­ma­cul­tural and tech­no­log­i­cal cycles together, we intend to pro­vide basic human needs while being good stew­ards of the land, using…

  • Sto­ries, Nov­els and Leg­ends 

    A novel is a book of long nar­ra­tive in lit­er­ary prose. (Wikipedia) A novel can be used to envi­sion pos­si­ble future sce­nar­ios. To think com­plexly and…

  • What do you have to do to get there from the here and now? 

    This is some­thing which involves envi­sion­ing a dif­fer­ent ‘state’ of being, place, event, object and then work­ing out what you have to do to get there. For…

• visual 
  • Anno­tated pho­tos 

    Take a bunch of pho­tos and make a point of nam­ing and describ­ing each one.

  • Art Gallery 

    Each group mem­ber makes a draw­ing or pic­ture of some sort. (Each pic­ture could be a group effort, if required.) Put the pic­tures on the wall to create…

  • Brain­storm­ing with post-it notes 

    This is a ‘nom­i­nal group tech­nique’ ver­sion of brain­storm­ing. (“Nom­i­nal group” means that peo­ple are nom­i­nally in a group but mostly work on their own) Each…

  • Con­cept Maps 

    A con­cept map is made by link­ing ideas together by lines. Con­cepts can be links by mul­ti­ple lines to other con­cepts. A piece of soft­ware for this pur­pose is…

  • Draw­ing 

    Draw­ing is a tool which can be used in a mul­ti­tude of con­texts. The act of draw­ing is usu­ally done alone although peo­ple in a group can draw each other or…

  • Going to the Zoo 

    Pre­tend all humans are ani­mals and the city is the zoo. Iden­tify ani­mal qual­i­ties in humans and human qual­i­ties in ani­mals. What is miss­ing from human…

  • Sym­bols 

    Con­sider the sym­bols that gov­ern mean­ing. Look for sym­bols in every­day life. How is mean­ing coded? A sym­bol library of an envi­ron­ment can be recorded using…

• web 
  • Deli­cious Tags 

    Deli­cious (for­merly del.icio.us, pro­nounced “deli­cious”) is a social book­mark­ing web ser­vice for stor­ing, shar­ing, and dis­cov­er­ing web bookmarks.1 I started…

  • Keep a blog 

    A blog is a web­site run­ning on a web­host that dis­plays posts in chrono­log­i­cal order. A pop­u­lar piece of blog soft­ware is Word­Press. A blog is usu­ally about…

  • Pat Burt’s Web Design Tips 

    Con­trast If you observe any design prin­ci­ple and com­pletely for­get about the oth­ers, observe con­trast. Con­trast is the dif­fer­ence between two ele­ments; the…

• Writ­ing 
  • Botai 

    Talk around the prob­lem rather than going into it in order to cre­ate a fer­tile space. Mar­tin Leith’s idea gen­er­a­tion meth­ods. Avail­able at <Website…

  • Think­ing Poem 

    Write a poem using the fol­low­ing thought exer­cises:- 5 Ws Facts-neutral,emotions-feelings,critic-analyst,sunshine-optimist, creative-growth,…

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