I posted a blog on this this sometime ago, but wordpress failed me and deleted the whole thing. But since the idea is now already growing and evolving, breeding and having babies. I’ll be interested to see what happens now when it’s memes are more readily adopted. Idea Midwifery is designing without ego, it places […]
Author Archives: Jay Cousins
Living in Beta: The living pod
Initially proposed as a treehouse, I couldn’t yet find any trees ready cut. So for the time being I’ll call it a living pod, to avoid being pilloried by the social equivalent of the trades descriptions act – “but you said…”. Anyway, the underlying principles of this are to explore whether I can improve […]
Waste Based Innovation Project
Last year Christophe Valliant and I, had the pleasure of working with students from HFG Karlsruhe developing concepts building on our research project with Fraunhofer ISI, the initial trend outcomes of which can be found here. For this project students were invited to consider the opportunities presented by so called waste materials, and in doing […]
How would you like to go viral?
Little brother is watching you, the whole world can know you as a nasty piece of shit. Consider your actions unless you want to go viral. In a world of smart phones, and social media, maybe all it takes nowadays is a small appeal to self reflection, amplified by the threat of many eyes. How […]
Guidelines for building Resilient Futures – thoughts in beta
The below is a brain dump and provocation – as always in Beta. Resilient Futures Note: originally this post referenced to Parallel Economies, but I feel resilient futures is more pertinent. By Resilient Futures I refer to potential shared ecosystems that can and will evolve from the primordial pool of emerging memes and movements. Whether […]
Why take part in Iron Blogger Berlin?
In response to @thornet. For context on Iron Blogger see here. Distilled Premise: Live in Berlin. Blog once a week. Every week you don’t blog donate 5 euros. Once a month go out with other bloggers. Drink the fund. My motivations: 1. Beer-sip-lin (apologies for awful pun), I need to write more posts or share […]
Autolinking
Just an idea and maybe it exists, in which case lets consider this a request to the “lazyweb”. I would like my mail to have autotext and auto linking. Like Zemanta for google, but more importantly one that learns from me. ie. every time I add a link to a word or name, my email […]
People in Beta @ CeBit
I’m really excited to announce that we’re bringing the Culture of Coworking, Making and Start Ups into the CeBit Global Conference. That’s right – Bang in the heart of an international business event, will be a Co-working and Co-creation Space. Our objective is to bring the spirit of Beta (Making, Coworking, Social Business, Start ups, […]
Future of Waste Innovation
Last year we ran a workshop called the Future of Waste Innovation at Open Design City. This year I continue to observe further behaviors and trends supporting some of our predictions and exhibiting the behaviors of some of the Architypes mentioned. Long overdue I’m now putting the PDF of the Workshop outcomes online […]
Makerplatz
There is a place in Berlin, where Moritzplatz used to be. Makerplatz. A hub for makers. Here there are resources, marketplaces, and infrastructures for people who make things. At Makerplatz you can find materials, both for sale, and for free (“waste”), you can find Laser Cutters, printers for any material including 3D models, you can find giant cameras, gardens, desks with […]
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