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

The 24-hour book project

It looks like there’s been a hub of collaborative creative writing activity happening on the web this weekend! A group of writers have set themselves up with the task to write and publish a book in just 24 hours using online tools to work together.  The group has been using Google Docs to write and edit the document, as well as using Skype and face-to-face conversation to communicate,... Read More

Mixing it Up: adding new intellectual property models to your creative practice (part 3)

(Okay, so this post has been a long time coming!) A while back, ‘Mixing it up: adding new intellectual property models to your creative practice – part 1’ and ‘part 2’ looked at some of the reasons why a creative practitioner may or may not share intellectual property (IP) , and the Creative Commons framework that can be used to manage this. The use of Creative Commons... Read More

Mixing it up: adding new intellectual property models to your creative practice (part 2)

What are the reasons for sharing/not sharing IP?  A recent Disruptive Social Innovators event covered this brilliantly.  As already identified in ‘part 1′, a primary reason is financial – the need to make money from one’s ideas.  But others might be: to protect the integrity of a creative idea – preventing someone else from modifying or altering... Read More

Mixing it up: adding new intellectual property models to your creative practice (part 1)

Quite naturally, creative practitioners are concerned with protecting their intellectual property (IP) – developing and delivering new and original ideas is how they make their living.  In the UK, traditional law focusses on prevention of copying, e.g. a piece of originally-produced work is automatically protected by copyright – no registration needed.   However,... Read More

A toolkit for collaborative working

Bracket has been working on a toolkit that can be used by those hoping to work collaboratively on a project with others. The initial framework is here. It is intended to be a work in progress, inviting contributions and developed as the model is tested.  There are also some suggestions from facilitators/providers of social media, gathered from Social Media Camp London 08. The... Read More