Archive / 2013

August 14, 2013

learn do share book #4

LEARN DO SHARE is a book series that captures storytelling experiments at diy days. It’s a narrative exploration into ethos, socio-economic context and open collaboration. The result are a rather unusual look-do-and-think-books that explore the methods we used, pitfalls we encountered and lessons we learned when we try all kinds of games and methods to …

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August 13, 2013

Phenomenal Work

Special thanks to our media partner THNKR who captured all the diy days NYC keynote talks. Phenomenal Work & Object Addiction The Internet era has spent two decades talking about the Web as if it were a series of virtual objects. Frequently we let that tie us all up into definitional knots that end up …

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August 11, 2013

The Misfit Economy

Special thanks to our media partner THNKR who captured all the diy days NYC keynote talks. The Power of Misfits The Power of Misfits: misfits are the gangsters on the corners of Cape Town townships, Mumbai slums, and rough New York City neighborhoods. Misfits are the young hackers on the digital frontlines of the virtual …

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July 29, 2013

My Sky is Falling

My Sky is Falling was one of the most buzzed about experiences at diy days NYC this past fall. Over the course of diy days history a number of exciting projects have been incubated. In 2011, Caine’s Arcade launched at diy days LA and has since gone on to massive levels of awesomeness. More and …

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July 28, 2013

to design a purposeful story by many

Researching Reboot Stories’ experiments with open design and story I came to think of it as Purposeful Storytelling. Stories have long been used for the purpose to inform, sell or persuade, but we’re onto something that involves story to ignite action and THEN do all of the above. I mean using storytelling to solve problems, …

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