 My business partner and I are hosting the Portland Sustainability Jam as a part of the Global Sustainability Jam because it creates a beautiful example of collective intelligence and collaborative innovation at work with a very real global sustainability problem. Many people think that innovation for solutions is a lightbulb eureka moment, but actually it is a process of building on other ideas and having existing conditions in other field develop in a way that can support a new synthesis. That's why systems thinking and process development is so important because thoughtful development of programs and products allow you to see where leverage points for innovation reside - where tweaks can be made that leave big impacts and allow you as an organization or business to build and shift gracefully. The jam is a way to facilitate design strategies and see innovation in practice. This jam is happening for groups around the world to work on a challenge during the same 48 hours, prototype ideas, and share them. I love bringing people together from different disciplines and especially finding the tinkerers and down to earth mechanically inclined doers and go through the design thinking process. Typically, ideas come out for all types of possibilities and visions for the future about how is truly inspiring. You can host a Jam in your city too! Go here if you are interested. http://planet.globalsustainabilityjam.org If you are in Portland over Halloween weekend and want to join the event check out this page: http://www.ecocreativestrategies.com/jam.html  |
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