Trials in design

There cannot be one person that owns the process. There must be an upfront commitment to collaborate.

The inclusion of a diversity of interests, opinions and professional backgrounds, provides a rich resource for more creative and comprehensive results. The challenge is how to imagine the most preposterous context where the diversity and coalescence cross fertilize and combine in a shared direction – perhaps not a “single” direction – which may be not only unrealistic but less useful than the little more messy but more inclusive initiative.

Interestingly it’s also face-to-face, rubbing shoulders, close proximity … the ol’ schmooze! And not only that, much of the stuff is about somehow making the world a better place (not just for little old moi), but for other folks, most of whom we don’t know.

So what’s the problem? This proclivity quite naturally tends to distract us from the small stuff. And in the small stuff there’s a treasure of potential.

A Place for Community is a message of collaboration and confluence spoken in the otherworldly language of stop-motion animation.

It enables us to trust better. To listen better. It’s calming.

How to practice something we think we already do?

Behind it is the great inhibitor, FEAR. The acceptance of failure as a crucial stepping stone accelerates any collaborative effort. It unites people in a core experience of shared sympathy and ultimate transcendence: a corollary benefit.

We are all inextricably connected by our humanity through the repeated patterns of everyday life, in our relationships (adult to child) friend to friend. How is it that in common efforts we often don’t feel that commonality?