How to Design for Everyday Creativity

Presentation
image The centralized, one-way model of cultural dissemination, predominant in previous century.
image A decentralized, networked model, made possible by the use of new technologies such as the internet and mobile phones.
image Mass participation occurs within the delimitations of a branded space specifically designed to facilitate the production of user generated content, which I call sourceories.
image Sourceories can be roughly lumped into one of two categories, Collectivist or Individualist.
image Individualist sourceories tend to have much stronger brands than their Collectivist counterparts.
image Despite the limitless bounds of cyberspace, It may be impossible to empower everyone as creative individuals unless they consciously accept a significant degree of collective authorship.
image In this new cultural landscape, it is not the creative classes who wield the cultural power, but the administrators, the curators, in essence, the shepherds of cultural production.

How to Design for Everyday Creativity

 

Approaching my last year at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, I decided that it would be a good idea to learn how to read and write. I enrolled in an open ended, two semester thesis course and ultimately produced a paper about the ethics of facilitating participatory culture entitled: How to Design for Everyday Creativity. These diagrams were created to accompany a lecture I gave on the subject.

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