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Rapid prototyping a social lab at the Open Source Open Society Conference on 17 April.

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We have a 45 minute session to play in at the Open Source Open Society Conference.

The conference is on 16 and 17 April, and we're in one of the open space sessions on Friday afternoon.

Alanna says:

You've got 45 mins to do whatever you like :) It will be in some sort of breakout space, and we're not able to guarantee any AV equipment, but will be providing pens, stickies, etc. So I'd go with a short presentation followed by workshop/discussion.

I've opened a google doc here to outline a session.

JP

Jason Paul Wed 8 Apr 2015 7:02AM

I think you should do a big facilitated brainstorm on what the hacklab community of Wellington could be (ie as a collaborative collective of groups), what it could do/achieve/attack. How it could be coordinated.... essentially group sourcing the discussions we started last week

RS

Rhian Salmon Wed 15 Apr 2015 11:17PM

still navigating the programme and loomio pages - do you have a time & room for this?

NT

Nigel Taptiklis Thu 16 Apr 2015 8:43AM

hi @rhiansalmon, not allocated yet.

NT

Nigel Taptiklis Fri 17 Apr 2015 11:00PM

Open Source Open Society social lab RapidHack

We had a 45 minute 'open space' session to play in at the [Open Source Open Society Conference] on 17 April (http://opensourceopensociety.com/).

The conference was on 16 and 17 April in Wellington.

We rapid-prototyped a 45 minute social lab. I merged Mike Riversdale's condensed hackathon with Theory U and a good dash of Enspiral social-tech practice. Mike ran a condensed hackathon for his 1 hour session on GovHack in the morning, and had given me his overview the day before.

My notes are here.

@samrye please post or email your pics (twitter doesn't seem to want to let me save them)

@katebeecroft, @lisamclaren1 and @nina please give a quick para on the ideas your teams prototyped.

I'll write up a quick blog post.

Great work team - thanks a bunch for your awesomeness!

NT

Nigel Taptiklis Fri 17 Apr 2015 11:10PM

I think it was quite remarkable that it worked, despite a late start, sharing a less-than ideal space with another group, and 1/3 of the participants coming late.

I liked @theodoretaptiklis's excited concluding remark "This stuff really works!".

CT

Caroline Taylor Sun 19 Apr 2015 6:53AM

@nigeltaptiklis great to hear it went well I'm keen to hear more about what happened and your thoughts for next steps

NT

Nigel Taptiklis Mon 20 Apr 2015 9:29PM

The three teams all created rapid prototypes. The ideas were:

'Team Mclaren' - Interactive/digital art installation on ideas for a sustainable city, linked to an online platform.

Angel Advocate - a support network for the 'Angels' that get things done.

The Hub - see following summary.

KB

Kate Beecroft Tue 21 Apr 2015 2:04AM

Our team prototyped a solution to the problem of dislocation in communities across generations and networks due to the lack of common spaces. We envisioned the school as a last bastion of the commons and hub for communities. Our school openly shares its resources (pool, library, hall, classrooms) with the community, is open till 8pm and has a huge veggie garden that community members and kids help out on. There is a community lunch at school once a week for anyone who wants to attend.