http://monkblogs.blogspot.com/2012/01/seths-blog-when-world-changes.html
{top of rialto bridge..?}
perhaps a headquarters/homebase,
perhaps bif-ish,
for the innovation lab - that is currently a mindset....
[the be you house as a wellness center of sorts, detox, safe place, where we find out the physical/psych spaces that free you up for your potential in cognitive discomfort, for alluring you to be you.]
the lab as a mindset for now, because we believe it shouldn't be a mecca, but in everyone. but perhaps an innovation factory/lab, to house the following...
a talkspace for community - where we learn to listen without an agenda. where we learn it's ok to talk, to not talk, to listen, to lurk... {suede and feed and grain as other options}
people can
- physically come, and speak up or not,
- catch a recording after, so they keep up on the convo
- skype/hangout to participate from their home or office or?
- follow a livestream.
- offering the opportunity to lurk and/or to participate as they wish.
ie: i can hangout or skype in people from all over (this ability has given me voice, made me feel i'm not crazy, not alone, lurking was/is huge to me), perhaps we can hangout or skype in people down the street, that aren't quite sure about what we're doing.. they just want to listen in, or maybe they'll can't make it to the physical space...perhaps the web, global connections, can teach us how to better communicate in our community. it's not borders or distance keeping us from each other, but something is..
so imagine 50, or 25, or 100 people (different or the same) gathering every week in this space, but over 90% of loveland participating in the convo, which means participating in creating us, because of what tech allows, via hangout, skype, livestream, archive....
it's also a good neutral collab space for arts ace, city, district, homeless, charities, etc
and good space to share out what we are doing.. to scale across... via google hangout(edtechtalk), internet tv(icosa), etc,
a conduit to communities of practice - jumpstarted via hOURschool
{for now - but that would move to pi lab of future, old music store}
a business for resources
house for angel investors... micro loan... presumed abundance
p. 333 of innov uni...
our quiet revolution started by wondering what would happen if we turned the city over to kids.. took away their compulsory curriculum, 7 hours a day, and let them find their own problems...
christensen writes of biy utah's success - matching up with mit - even though it had no where near the resources, because they used their greatest resource, the students.
what if this space becomes the office of the city, as turned over to the kids.. not running the city, but facilitating the city through the time they have in the day, the govern funding, and their brilliant minds being set free to do that which they can't not do.
we'll find, we have enough, more than enough, abundance.
we're currently just missing it.
how to do more with less... giving it to the people (this isn't just about kids.. there are just a lot of people that happen to be held up in school buildings getting ready for tests, brilliant people, that could change a town)
game on -1.18.12 - today i am alive.