Developing entrepreneurs for the 21st century
We recently sat on the Education and Talent Development panel at the Barbados Entrepreneurship Summit 2011. The conference is organised by the Barbados Entrepreneurship Foundation (BEF), a charity set up to make the island the world’s #1 entrepreneurial hub by 2020. The BEF has also initiated the drive towards free Wi-Fi across the island which is now at around 60% coverage. ... Read More
Practice (and play) makes participation
This is the second post inspired by the OK Do talk that took place during the London Design Festival on ‘Strategies for Participation’. The talk brought up lots of questions on how we decide who to collaborate with. We really liked the point that Celine Condorelli and Ulla-Maaria Engeström were making – that we choose who to work with based on our values, but... Read More
Partnerships for the future – social enterprise and collaboration
A couple of weeks back, we attended Red Ochre’s one-day event “Social Enterprise and Commissioners – a partnership for the future?”. Red Ochre is a business support organisation for social enterprises, and the event was a response to the potential opportunities arising for its clients to respond to public sector tenders. One of the breakout sessions was Developing Successful... Read More
Dealing with conflict
When choosing collaborators, we tend to gravitate towards those that are like us and who agree with us. Naturally, we’d rather spend time with people we agree with rather than those we don’t. But sometimes it’s those that have opposite views that we can be likely to learn from most. Maybe the reason we avoid collaborating with those with different views is because of... Read More
Bracket’s CUBELUNCH
Bracket’s lunchtime workshop at THE CUBE was a great success, with lots of interesting discussion about effective creative collaboration using online tools. Questions were raised around approaching intellectual property and attribution, managing egos and how to encourage people to use online tools (when all they want to use is e-mail!). Creative Boom London kindly wrote a... Read More
Open Design: Delivered in Beta
This inspiring video shows a collaborative approach to developing products. The workshop “How is social media changing design?” took place during Social Media Week 2010 in Berlin, encouraging designers to share ideas and create together. Thanks to Andrew for the link! Delivered in Beta from KS12 on Vimeo. Read More
Can you?
We spent the weekend in the fab offices of Wieden+Kennedy for the equally excellent Culture Hack Day 2011. The question “Can you play nicely with other creative minds?” was painted in huge letters across one of the walls. It’s a good one to ask ourselves from time to time. It’s not always as easy as we think. Photo from Culture Hack Day on Flickr. Read More
If You Could: Collaborate
A visit to the If You Could: Collaborate exhibition leaves visitors buzzing with ideas and excitement about what happens when creative minds get together. Alex Bec and Will Hudson of If You Could invited 33 creatives to collaborate with someone of their choice, giving them 12 months to develop a final piece. The brief was completely open so the curators had no idea what the... Read More
Using social networks for creative business
Naturally, because Bracket works in the area of social media, we often get asked questions on how creative businesses should be using online networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn etc. Although this is not entirely our focus, (e.g. these tools aren’t used to manage collaborative projects) we do see their value in helping to develop and build teams. They can play a... Read More
Trust and risk in creative collaboration
Healthy and effective collaborations require trust to encourage free-flow of ideas, contributions and actual delivery of the work. But trust is abstract – you’re relying on the actions of others to get things done. When you’re working on your own you can maintain control over everything you create, so essentially when you collaborate you’re taking a risk. Read More Read More