Here are three resources which have recently crossed my path that involve using fun and games for social change. Some of these work with groups and some work across social spaces – demographics, communities or organizations. What I like about these games is that they provide a built in set of measureables that can be used to gauge progress and evaluate behaviour change. Sesms like combining fun, visible change and simple yet powerful standards for noticing shift is the holy grail in this kind of work. Games for Change: Games for Change (G4C) is a non-profit which seeks to harness …
My mate Geoff Brown blogs his experience running a music festival using improvisation, trust and the gift economy as an operating system: Over the weekend, myself and Marty Maher and a bunch of other volunteers stage the 3rd annual Aireys Inlet Open Mic Music Festival. Apart from being an absolutely outrageous success, it was loads of fun and we designed and staged it all without a Steering Committee (yaaay) ” or a detailed strategic plan for that matter! Go read the results: The Fun & Improvisation of a Music Festival – the backstory | Yes and Space.
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There is an omlet in this weeks batch of feed food: Christopher Niemann repurposes Google Map aethetics to make cleaver pictures. Jordon Cooper points to a beautiful tilt-pan movie of my favourite city: New York. Laura McGrath’s blog. A new friend and colleague.
Forwarded to me by my colleague Ray Gordezky, with whom I am part of a team looking convening people around polar bears in Northern Labrador and Quebec. The Moon Speaks of Polar Bears Hailey Leithauser Some things are better defined by what they are not, as when snow heaping the world replaces the world, becoming no longer a rooftop, no longer a narrow gravel shoreline or road, even in times, in places, no longer the black breathing of the sea. In this way the polar bear stealing her difficult, beautiful life from the ridges and drifts, the colorless plateau around …