CPH127

Back in September we had an intense coverage of the INDEX:Views Summit here in Copenhagen. It was a GREAT event with a lot of interesting people around the table. Some of the "findings" are great - check it out your self, and maybe you want to share your thoughts after the first read? We hope

During INDEX:Views – it happens in every meeting or gathering - I saw different patterns of position-taking.

Try to think back to the last time you introduced your self in a group. What did you tell about your self, why?

Why do almost all of us list up our work titles, where we have studied, and which exams we have?

Why don’t we tell about our last vacation, what we’ve planned for the weekend and what motivates us when working together with other people?

Another position-talking attitude is about using history as an argument. Is history a valid point in days where we don’t know the answers to tomorrows needs and problems? Has it ever been a valid argument when designing solutions for tomorrow?

Vocabulary – language – is the last position-talking attitude I will mention in this post. When working in multi-diverse team, with multi-disciplinary capabilities and different language it often appears to be difficult to agree on which level of conversation the group should choose.

Do you have any suggestions to how to deal with that? Leading diverse teams?

I’m sure you know of other examples – please share.

During the last week I’ve been heavily involved with INDEX:Views and experienced and learned a lot about creative processes, management, leadership, position-taking-attitudes, endurance, misleading artefacts, ignorance, “design-processes”, designed processes, and I’m sure a lot more….

I’ve just started to reflect about the last week, and as many times before many of the important learning points come to me retrospectively.

The one I would like to start out with is about brainstorming – or should I say ideation process?

The reason why I’m thinking about exactly that is of course related to what I experienced during the Summit, but also because of my general interest. The ideation process is important for mainly one reason - If you don’t have the right array of ideas to choose from, the end result of course will be “poor”.

So, ideation is IMPORTANT.

But how do you plan that? How do you execute? Are there constraints in time or economy that is decisive for methods chosen?

Any experiences you want to share?

Months ago I came by a website with a list of tools – INTERESTING. Maybe you’re familiar with one or more of the methods?

After asking a lot of people at INDEX: how they would define design, I’d know like to ask our readers. I find it highly interesting to hear all of these different definitions, they help me explain the purpose of CPH127 to others. To start of, let’s look at what Paul Rand says:

“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.”

CPH127 is heavily involved in covering the INDEX: Views Summit in Copenhagen underway right now. I am doing video interviews with the attendees and the two other founders, Hans Henrik and Magnus, is documenting all that’s happening over at the INDEX: Views blog.

When I have the time I take some photos too, and so do Hans Henrik and the official photographers for INDEX: - you can see these at a Flickr Group we have made for the purpose. Please add your comments to the photos, we’d love some feedback.

INDEX:2005 has presented the five winners of the 100.000 € design
awards in the categories BODY, HOME, COMMUNITY, PLAY and WORK.

Read more….

Join the conversation or tell us here at CPH127 what you think about the Jury’s different motivations.

During the past weeks and months the CPH127-cockpit have been trying to spot destinations worth visiting. In fact we have been helping the good friends from INDEX2005 creating a digital presence, a beautiful destination, not yet spoiled

–definitely worth visiting during the next weeks.

Magnus, Jacob and I have been busy creating their weblog, and copied a few posts from CPH127 just to getting the conversation started.

Between 25-28 of September you will see a lot happening there. There will be live coverage from the summit and we will bring interviews with some of the creative leaders and trying to catch the atmosphere during the days.

Please feel free to also join the conversation over there about “Design – how to improve life?”

UPDATE: You can subscribe to the feed - the URL is http://connecta.typepad.com/indexviews/index.rdf