Circle of Blue, in short, is a resilient, evolving template, purposefully constructed as the 21st century news and communications center that is capable of both understanding and leading the global responses to immense challenges, tracking them and elevating the solutions. Circle of Blue does this by producing dramatic, compelling evidence of the results and the solutions. Circle of Blue is the only communications organization that integrates front-line journalism, design, science, ideation and connected leadership.
Our challenge is to develop a website or portal that makes the Encyclopedia of Life content and related educational activities and resources accessible to a variety of audiences.
We love the long-term vision of EOL. Definitely a worthy project!
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Todd joined with more than a dozen of his professional colleagues in The Value Web to support the World Economic Forum's WorkSpace collaborative sessions at the 3rd Annual Meeting of New Champions. The WorkSpace hosted 11 sessions this year, ranging from "Groundbreaking Ideas for Social Change" to "How Good is your Judgement."
]]>With The Value Web, Tomorrow Makers led a 2-day workshop that brought together designers, thought leaders and change makers to explore, design and collaborate in bringing forth the new paradigm. This invitational event included participants from throughout The Value Web's business ecosystem. An assortment of content has been shared via Facebook, Twitter, and various blogs, including here on the Tomorrow Makers site.
]]>The International Design Alliance (IDA) is a strategic alliance between three international bodies for design, respectively representing communication design (Icograda), industrial design (Icsid) and the interior designers/architects (IFI). The three organizations represent different facets of a shared profession, and thus bring very different cultures into the the long term vision and strategy.
The opportunity at the meeting in September was to find a common vision for the future of the IDA and agreement on structure and operational model.
A joint effort between Matt (MG Taylor) and Gail (Tomorrow Makers) created a one and one half day experience to help the IDA induce a phase transition, getting them beyond cultural differences to discover the essential part each body brings to the table and how to combine these in a synergistic way.
Matt facilitated the Montreal meeting with the assistance of Ryan Romsey, independent videographer and MGT network member. By all accounts, it was successful. Gail was able to remain at home, having taken a central role in the design, and recover from her surgery.
The opportunity to work with this design alliance came through The Value Web, who recommended the Taylors. Ongoing work with INDEX: and The World Economic Forum brought The Value Web to IDA's attention.
"The Innovation 100 meeting, part of the World Economic Forum's Geography of Innovation program, convened a global set of business and academic stakeholders to share perspectives and develop greater understanding around three focus areas: innovation clusters, innovation talent, and collaborative innovation."
Through his affiliation with The Value Web, Todd was brought into this project as Design Lead and Venture Manager. With the Forum and its partners, Todd developed the program and breakout sessions, partnered with Jeff Shults to bring in a world-class design environment, and assembled the knowledge worker team that supported the event.
"For the first time in history, our tools are becoming as powerful as our problems. Unfortunately, a frustrating gap remains between our urgent problems and their potential solutions. The solutions are not just technical; they live across disciplinary boundaries, fragmented efforts, ideologies, and entrenched interest groups."
"Stanford can play a leadership role in marshalling our considerable resources to imagine, model, prototype, test, and help implement bipartisan solutions that work. The proposed Stanford Solutions Network would provide a continuously improving and immersive problem solving environment."
I will be attending Neil's presentation with much anticipation. As I interpret his ideas, I see fundamentally sound systems thinking: analysis, synthesis, unity, diversity and an appreciation of the entanglement. I wonder though, to what extent he's connected the virtual to the physical, and how he envisions keeping this from being just another academic think/do tank. (more info)
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This one day interactive collaborative exploration of what it means to lead sustainability efforts is a co-creation of Syntony Quest, an organization doing phenomenal work in the areas of evolutionary learning communities, leadership, and social change. (link to complete event info)
This is the "next" in a ongoing stream of partnerships / collaborations between Syntony Quest and Tomorrow Makers that began at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS). Todd will be participating in the event as a "special guest" as well as taking part in follow-up sessions to design subsequent Championing Sustainability workshops.
]]>With the Livability Project, Tomorrow Makers' will be facilitating a 3-hour DesignSession with 15 Sonoma county residents - each championing organizations, projects or ideas around "sustainability" - to begin a conversation around new ways of working and collaborating that can help these individual entities while simultaneously quickening the transformation of the county as a whole. The event will take place in Tomorrow Makers' Collaboratory in the Business Cluster at Sonoma Mountain Village.
]]>10 AM - 3 PM • The Tomorrow Makers Collaboratory, Sonoma Mountain Village
Both Gail and Todd are among the founding members who will be present as the newly formed tribe sets forth on conversations around necessary impossibilities, exploring ways in which systems sciences can open up new frontiers of thought and frame new questions that will incubate and accelerate thoughtful evolution.
For more info, contact Todd.
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