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How can the open innovation process be made more transparent? How can information be more shareable and useable for others? How easy can we make it to modify, reshape, and build upon experimental frameworks and prototypes?
We’ve been asking ourselves these questions as we create the videoblogs documenting the Future of Money project. The episode above shows us reflecting a bit about the interviews we conducted, answering a few questions that were posed on Twitter, and enjoying the free time we were able to squeeze in here and there.
We plan to get into more specifics in upcoming episodes, but would love your feedback in the meantime. How could this collaborative storytelling project be improved? What parts of the process do you want to know more about? Let us know!
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what part of the process i would love to learn more about is how you structured the interviews – did you have a set of questions that you asked everyone?
no, we didn’t have preset questions…. we had some general themes we wanted to touch upon, and then gabe improvised the questions as we went through the interviews. the questions also evolved over the course of the interview process… some of the points that were raised by some interviewees were then brought up to later interviewees to get their perspective or to have them expand upon them. what was interesting to me was that despite the age of the person or their specific career focus, we had several recurring themes come up across the board. definitely an “emergent” process, where the patterns revealed themselves over time. đ
i see! wow, that’s a powerful phenomena itself and might hold a big voice in this whole thing… i hope you can bring some of this meta-reflections/observations into the video? or maybe an extra meta-video later? đ
i will definitely do a meta-reflection post when it’s over…. maybe even a videoblog if we have time from amsterdam….
brilliant! looking forward! love the work you are doing AND also the way of working you guys are pioneering… this Open Innovation Process will surely ripple out and impact the ways projects of this kind will be done in the future!
When I do interviews I like to think of it as a polylogue going on inside my head between all the various interviewees. This helps my editing process, which is very synthetic and attempts to collide the various perspectives into a mosaic of meaning. I especially enjoy it in the editing when one person can complete another person’s sentence, even though they’ve never spoken to one another.
this is brilliant Gabriel! this kind of sharing of working styles will be extremely valuable for many people! hah, the other person completing someone else’s sentence đ
i like “polylogue” and “colliding perspectives into a mosaic of meaning”! this goes beyond linear Q&A and teaching-mode, this is offering a vibrant field of leading-edge perspectives that invites contribution and co-evolution…
Venessa/Gabriel,
One thing I feel that will help viewers put things in perspective is if there was a “tree” of the vision you are trying to explore and accomplish. The different themes you are then exploring could be the branches. And as you do these videoblogs, it would I think help to know which branches are affected (you can do that without divulging the content of the interviews per se).
I also think this can help in colliding the perspectives as Gabriel put it and making the mosaic more cohesive & coherent.
Anyway, just wanted to share some random thoughts. This is definitely an interesting project in both scope and execution and am sure you guys are having a ball doing it. To me the fun part is the fact that the process is unstructured – sometimes the best things in life happens as spontaneous events.
And go easy on the Asian food :-).
Regards,
Ned
hey ned!
thanks for your thoughts, as always. i don’t know if you noticed, but we reached (and exceeded!) our $5,000 fundraising goal, and so will be producing an infographic/visualization that gives an overview of all the different areas we looking into during our research. the main theme is peer to peer exchange, and covers areas like social lending, microfinance, micropayments, barter, gift exchange, and digital/complimentary currencies. the big world premiere of the video will be tomorrow morning during my keynote, and then we’ll post the video online for anyone to view.
because of the time constraint for the presentation, the video is more big picture and thought provoking, verse informative about specific platforms or companies that are working on initiatives in this space. so hopefully the infographic will be good for that more granular information.
i’ve never tried doing something like this before, and it’s been such a rewarding process… now i keep wondering how i could continue. we did our best to be transparent about our process, while being extremely busy with actually *doing* the process…. (it’s hard to be autodocumenting and concentrating on the work itself!), but i would love to keep doing projects, and have it really feel like a “co-production” between me, as a kind of curator of content, and the public, for whoever was passionate about the particular topic area of that project.
if there was a way to set it up so that we earned money as we went (“funding the process”), and then redistributed those funds to everyone who was contributing along the way, i think it would be incredibly fun and satisfying for everyone.
– v
Venessa,
I did notice – and congratulations. I am sincerely proud of where you (&the team) have gone with this. And luck with the presentation – though knowing you, I am not worried about how it will go.
I agree with you that financial sponsorship is the challenge. I am thinking we should have a ‘advertising type’ business model where in the brunt of the funds come from a few sponsors leaving the public to participate freely. When we ask for ‘general’ contributions, for various reasons someone might not be able to contribute and this can sometimes cascade into a lack of participation (the guilt syndrome). Anyway, need to think through & explore this avenue further.
On ‘autodocumenting’, yes doing and documenting in parallel is not easy. Again, I don’t have a solution but I was thinking (don’t laugh now) maybe we can learn something from techniques used by folks like Thom Beers on reality shows like Deadliest Catch and Ice Road Truckers. I think it will come down to ‘recording’ the events as they happen and then processing it for a continuous feed on progression of the project.
Have fun.
Regards,
Ned
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