ideation for resilience: prepared presentation (sample work)
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Ideation for ResilienceNote: These slides were completed for a session to be presented at Imperial College as part of the 2015 London Environmental Challenge. !Though the session had to be postponed for a future event, it remains a key example of my approach to interdisciplinary ideation.
CC BY-SA Joshua Davis 2015
Ideation for Resilience
Heath Rezabek, MLISCC BY whologwhy 201
Librarian and futurist !
Lunar Mission One liaison to the Long Now Foundation !
Connected YouthTechnology Centers for at-‐risk youth in East Austin, TX, US
Heath Rezabek MLIS@heath_rezabek [email protected] linkedin.com/pub/heath-rezabek
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What connects Ideation toResilience ?
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The future resilience of our cities and societiesrelies on our ability to arrive at genuine innovations
by connecting ideas in new ways.
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This session will share practical means of doing so,and will introduce a sample project designed
to help future generations do the same.
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Main concerns: the role of technology in society,the voices of young people in determining the future,long term thinking, and very long term preservation
of the biological, scientific, and cultural record.
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Served as Intern at the Long Now FoundationLiaison with Long Now for Lunar Mission One
Some Background . . .
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Rosetta Disk • Clock of the Long Now10,000 Year Library • Manual for Civilization • much more…
Long Now Foundation
CC BY Christopher Michael 2014
Rosetta Disk
1,500 languages
One sample text
Microetched nickel
Optical, not digitalOne copy on ESA Rosetta CraftOther copies around the world
Photo by Rolfe Horn courtesy of The Long Now Foundation
Manual forCivilization
Representative collection (3,500 volumes)for the Interval, Long Now HQ !Core collection, starting point of10,000 Year Library !Intern, 2013-‐2014
Assisted and advised on initial stages
Used by Permission © Long Now Foundation 201
Changing the tools you use to view the world
can expand the range of your possibilities.
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CC BY Christopher Michael 2014
Ideation
some Toolsand Methods
Concepts and themes selected from… Toolkit for Resilient Cities (Arup, RPA, Siemens 2013) Glossary of Environmentally Sustainable Design (EDG 2011) SlimCity Knowledge Cards (World Economic Forum, Arup 2009) citylab.com/cityfixer/ !…fed into crowd-‐curation tool allourideas.org/ !!www.allourideas.org/2015-lec-cities
Ideation
citylab.com/cityfixer
A/B Sorting Users can add new ideas
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In case of server overload: Notecards and pens.
allourideas.org
allourideas.org
Ideally, we want collaboration; unexpected input and feedback
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Random drawings mean it can be used as a random generator
Connetivity
The unexpected can be regarded as good news.
CC BY-SA Aviva West 2012
Oblique Strategies
Many online versions
google.com/search?q=oblique+strategies
Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt
CC BY-SA Cory Doctorow 2013
Oblique Strategies
Drawn from domain of music -‐ however… !
For our purposes, there’s no noise; only potential signal.
!If all you have is a hammer,everything looks like a nail.
Training to see connectivity expands the toolkit.
CC BY-NC-SA Stephanie Asher
Ideation for Resilience
Idea generation, capture, analysis, synthesis. !
Goal: A sustainable way to identify and develop innovations.
1. Build your idea pool
2. Draw a sample
3. Connect a subset: 3 of 5 … 5 of 7
4. Note key connections and concepts
Connective Codex DIY idea pool
To spark solutions in the future,we want to sample from the most comprehensive pool possible.
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As with design projects,so with long-‐term preservation.
Connective Codex DIY idea pool
is an idea pool, a wellspring of future possibilities.(Economic, cultural, technological…)
We want to carry forward as many vital sparks as possible.
The Resilient City
CC BY Stamen Design 2015
What is long-‐term resilience?
What sparks it? What sustains it?
Identify what is vital, and carry it forward.
What is Vital?
CC BY-SA Petras Gagilas 2010
Rebuilt by itscommunity every 20 years. !
Always rebuilt in the same fashion.
Ise : Shinto Shrine
CC BY Ajari 2008
Ise : Shinto Shrine
What qualities of Ise are resilient and vital? What qualities of Ise are at risk over time?
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What qualities of Londonare resilient and vital?
What qualities of Londonare at risk over time?
London
CC BY-SA kloniwotski 2013
How do we capture what a city is? What is London’s vital heritage?
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How would we carrythose vital sparks forward?
London
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CC BY-SA Eric Fischer 2010
CC0 NASA JPL 1990
Pale Blue Dotthe
CC0 NASA JPL 1990
Consider again that dot. !!That's here. That's home. That's us.
CC0 NASA JPL 1990
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997 reprint, pp. xv–xvi
CC0 NASA JPL 1990
A thought-‐experiment: Resilient, adaptive, very long-‐term community knowledge centers, to carry forward vital sparks.
Vessel Archivesvessel : container, conduit, medium, conveyance
CC BY-SA Joshua Davis 2013
Like the Pale Blue Dot, each locality on Earth is unique. Unique strengths, strategies, challenges, opportunities.
!We enjoy a moment of tremendous capability
to design and build resilient systems, institutions, cities, habitats. !
Solutions must reflect local needs and qualities,while remaining adaptable around the world.
Vessel Archives
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Vessel ArchivesVessel Open Framework
Design challenge to create an adaptable modelfor resilient, long term reflections of Earth’s heritage. !Draws inspiration from both forward-‐looking and traditional approaches to museums, libraries, archives, universities, innovation centers, and so on… !
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Vessel Archives3-‐entry layout in concept model to accommodate collections,exhibitions, and labs reflectingnature, science, and culture. !Other typologies are possible(circular, clustered, and so on).
Holdings would include endangered biodiversity (from data to DNA)and cultural heritage(from traditional to advanced media types and formats).
CC BY-SA Joshua Davis 2013
Vessel ArchivesLow-‐profile structures could scale to any size or setting, including remote or sequestered backup instances. !Alternate form factorssuch as a tower suggest degrees of visibility and prominence as a landmark. !Assets and IP (symbol, SketchUp models, and so on) are Open Source. !CC BY-SA Vessel Archives / Heath Rezabek
CC BY-SA Joshua Davis 2013
Virtual collection accessible online
Crowd-‐curated Biodiversity database Cultural heritage database
Lunar Mission OnePublicArchives
Lunar Mission One 2014
Lunar Mission One will make fresh scientific discoveries on the Moon, but we also want the project to help us learn more about our own planet and its history. Bringing together schools, academics and the general public from across the world, Lunar Mission One will provide the funds to create a publically assembled, free to access digital record of Life on Earth – of human history and civilisation, and a scientific description of the biosphere with a database of species. Publically owned and accessible to all, our Public Archive is a hugely ambitious plan that could only be resourced by a project of this scale. !About the Public Archive The public archive is one of the most exciting and ambitious academic undertakings in history. It will contain a publicly assembled and owned digital record of life on Earth: a record of human history and civilisation worldwide to date, alongside a species database showing the biodiversity of animals and plants.
LM1 Public Archives
Lunar Mission One 2014
When the drilling experiments are complete, Lunar Mission One will bury the first edition of this public archive deep below the Moon’s surface in the 21st Century equivalent of a time capsule. This unprecedented educational resource will also be available online, free and accessible to all, for ongoing contributions and development after the Mission. For the first time in history, all this information will be in one place, free for everybody to access. !This will be the first time that academics from across science and the humanities have collaborated to create a peer reviewed public archive on this scale. To ensure that it is a true representation of human history and world biodiversity, academics and the general public from across the world will play a role in deciding its contents. There will also be an editorial board which will ensure that all information included in the archive is accurate. The public archive project will run alongside the Lunar Mission Trust’s education programme, meaning that schools, colleges and universities can all contribute to decisions and discussions about the content. !http://launch.lunarmissionone.com/index.php/lunar-mission-one/people-and-planet
LM1 Public Archives
Lunar Mission One 2014
If LM1 Public Archives
were physical innovation centers…
What would they be like?What qualities would they have?
What if:Public Points of Presence
Lunar Mission One 2014
If a comprehensive, resilient archive were built in London…What would it be like? What qualities would it have?
Vessel ArchiveLM1 Public Archive
CC BY Rory MacLeod 2011
Vessel ArchiveLM1 Public Archive
Ideation & Brainstorming: !Build a Connective Codex for comprehensive archival facilities which carry forth a vital spark of adaptabilitythrough time. !Or: Build a codex foryour own chosen design challenge.
www.allourideas.org/2015-vessel-lm1
CC BY-SA See Ming Lee 2009
Vessel ArchiveLM1 Public Archive
Themes • Challenges !Resources • Stakeholders !Requirements (Design goals / constraints) !Obliquities (wildcard inspirations)
CC BY-SA See Ming Lee 2009
Continuing Ideation
London Environmental
Challenge continues with
ideation towards the
second week of sessions…
CC BY-SA See Ming Lee 2009