Cultivating Resilient Culture

This blog has moved!!

yodelheck — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:07:40 +0000

Hi folks-

I decided it was time to get a self-hosted wordpress site, so Cultivating Resilient Culture has moved to:

www.worldbridgerdesign.com/blog

I hope you like the new design!

-Jay

A Pattern Language for Social Innovation– looking for an ontology

yodelheck — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:13:23 +0000

I’ll be touring Europe this summer with the intention of learning the secrets of success in social innovation from experienced practitioners.

I’ve decided to harvest the stories, wisdom and insight that I learn along the way into an attractive deck of cards, such that the key concepts are easily digestible and can be assembled into mind maps.

I’m wondering how these cards could be incorporated into art of hosting/harvesting so that as new wisdom emerges, it can be crystallized into card form and added to the body of knowledge.

Key to the success of such a deck would be the template design into which the content would be placed. There needs to be enough flexibility to allow for a wide diversity of ideas, solutions, stories, etc but also enough order such that the cards can be organized into comprehensible mind-maps.

So I’m looking for the right categorization structure. Perhaps the Chaordic Stepping Stones would work well? What other ontologies have you found to be useful for organizing thinking about social innovation?

MetaCurrency Explained

yodelheck — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:43:07 +0000

Over the last few days, I’ve been working with Alan Rosenblith to explain the MetaCurrency project in simple terms. Here is the presentation that we created to that end:

http://prezi.com/ijiokjbrolwo/metacurrency-mind-map/

Co-Working spaces and Social Innovation in Portland

yodelheck — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:13:56 +0000

Yesterday I toured around Portland looking at collaborative work spaces and programs that support social innovation with my friend Renata.

First, we met with Mark Grimes, co-founder of Ned Space, Ned.com and Ned Water. He graciously spent a few hours with us, offering his advice about starting co-working spaces, his experiences putting on Maker Faire Africa, and general musings on startup social enterprise.

Ned has two spaces in Portland and is open to creating locations worldwide. A few shots of their spaces:

Next, we had lunch at a hip art gallery/coffeeshop/event venue called Backspace. Some shot of the awesome art that was on the walls:

After downing a BBQ tempeh wrap and a bottle of kombucha, we stopped by a chic co-working space called Souk.

After Souk, we had to patronize the locally famous Voodoo Doughnuts. And yes, that is real bacon on top of a maple bar.

Then we hopped across the river and drank some hard cider with Sara and my friend Alan Rosenblith. Sara is putting together an Innovation Incubation Lab called Hatch! After a few drinks, we went to an event on social enterprise put on by Springboard Innovation, one of Hatch’s partners.

As usual, Portland is inspiring, fun and feels like home.

More art in progress

yodelheck — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:47:39 +0000

Next Stop: Sweden

yodelheck — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:29:03 +0000

Here’s an update on what’s new in my life:

Links to projects, places, and events mentioned in the video:

http://www.reworktheworld.org/

Oasis Training in Amsterdam

Learning Journey Berlin

Vipassana: 10 days of silent insight meditation

Portland Social Innovation Incubator: Springboard Innovation

Portland Co-Working: NedSpace

The MetaCurrency Project

More Art

yodelheck — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:38:21 +0000

This is probably going to get more love, but here’s the start:

Satellite Art

yodelheck — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:29:54 +0000

And the upgraded version:

New Art

yodelheck — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:10:58 +0000

Featured Ally: Geoff Jensen

yodelheck — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:47:52 +0000

Today I spent the afternoon with my friend Geoff, who I lived with last year. Geoff, also known as ioTus, is a digital visionary, yogi, and Gnostic Jedi. We had a great chat about learning to live outside of the conventional financial treadmill, and supporting each other to offer our gifts to the world. He wrote a great post about our conversation here.