Sharing our Vision: the role of visual facilitation in the collaborative process

Over a tea in the Wellcome Collection cafe, we had a chat with Emily Wilkinson from Mindful Maps (who we’ve worked with before on our BracketLab project) about visual facilitation and creative collaboration.  We realised that our disciplines had a lot to contribute to the other and decided to pull our thoughts together. Read More  Read More

The first meeting: getting your creative project off to a good start

Your first meeting with your new team is significant in setting up the direction of the project, building relationships and sparking motivation.  Here are some tips we use to keep the ideas flowing, and also ensure the session is practical and useful: Read More  Read More

The co-working meeting

In our last post we showed the presentation we did for Rewire High 5. The focus of this quick-fire talk was the juggling entrepreneur: “The juggling entrepreneur has their own business and brand, which is the core of what they do, but they also develop ‘micro-ventures’ with others…  These are ventures that are built from scratch, collaboratively with others,... 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

Tips and tools for running online meetings

The tips. Online meetings need managing and organisation just like face-to-face meetings: Have an agenda, with timings, which should be forwarded to all participants beforehand, and outlined again at the beginning of the meeting Allocate someone in charge of chairing to keep the meeting focussed and running to time Adhere to the same protocols that you would in offline meetings... Read More

A meeting of creative minds

When working on a project with others, a mixture of both online and offline communication methods work well together. It’s likely that at least one face-to-face meeting will take place, and meetings are not always easy to facilitate. So, stock up on big paper, markers, coloured pens and post-its – here are a few tips and methods you can use to keep the creative juices... Read More