Ideation for Resilience: Prepared presentation (Sample work)

Ideation for ResilienceNote: These slides were completed for a session to be presented at Imperial College as part of the 2015 London Environmental Challenge. !Though the session had to be postponed for a future event, it remains a key example of my approach to interdisciplinary ideation.

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Ideation for Resilience

Heath  Rezabek,  MLISCC BY whologwhy 201

Librarian  and  futurist  !

Lunar  Mission  One  liaison  to  the  Long  Now  Foundation  !

Connected  YouthTechnology  Centers  for  at-­‐risk  youth  in  East  Austin,  TX,  US

Heath Rezabek MLIS@heath_rezabek heath.rezabek@gmail.com linkedin.com/pub/heath-rezabek

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What connects Ideation toResilience ?

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The  future  resilience  of  our  cities  and  societiesrelies  on  our  ability  to  arrive  at  genuine  innovations

by  connecting  ideas  in  new  ways.  

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This  session  will  share  practical  means  of  doing  so,and  will  introduce  a  sample  project  designed

to  help  future  generations  do  the  same.

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Main  concerns:    the  role  of  technology  in  society,the  voices  of  young  people  in  determining  the  future,long  term  thinking,  and  very  long  term  preservation

of  the  biological,  scientific,  and  cultural  record.  

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Served  as  Intern  at  the  Long  Now  FoundationLiaison  with  Long  Now  for  Lunar  Mission  One

Some Background . . .

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Rosetta  Disk    •    Clock  of  the  Long  Now10,000  Year  Library    •    Manual  for  Civilization    •    much  more…

Long Now Foundation

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Rosetta Disk

1,500  languages  

One  sample  text  

Microetched  nickel  

Optical,  not  digitalOne  copy  on  ESA  Rosetta  CraftOther  copies  around  the  world

Photo by Rolfe Horn courtesy of The Long Now Foundation

Manual forCivilization

Representative  collection  (3,500  volumes)for  the  Interval,  Long  Now  HQ  !Core  collection,  starting  point  of10,000  Year  Library    !Intern,  2013-­‐2014

Assisted  and  advised  on  initial  stages

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Changing  the  tools  you  use  to  view  the  world  

can  expand  the  range  of  your  possibilities.

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Ideation

some Toolsand Methods

Concepts  and  themes  selected  from…   Toolkit for Resilient Cities (Arup, RPA, Siemens 2013) Glossary of Environmentally Sustainable Design (EDG 2011) SlimCity Knowledge Cards (World Economic Forum, Arup 2009) citylab.com/cityfixer/ !…fed  into  crowd-­‐curation  tool   allourideas.org/ !!www.allourideas.org/2015-lec-cities

Ideation

citylab.com/cityfixer

A/B  Sorting   Users  can  add  new  ideas  

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In  case  of  server  overload:  Notecards  and  pens.

allourideas.org

allourideas.org

Ideally,  we  want  collaboration;  unexpected  input  and  feedback  

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Random  drawings  mean  it  can  be  used  as  a  random  generator

Connetivity

The  unexpected can  be  regarded  as  good  news.

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Oblique Strategies

Many  online  versions  

google.com/search?q=oblique+strategies

Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt

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Oblique Strategies

Drawn  from  domain  of  music  -­‐  however…  !

For  our  purposes,  there’s  no  noise;  only  potential  signal.  

!If  all  you  have  is  a  hammer,everything  looks  like  a  nail.  

Training  to  see  connectivity  expands  the  toolkit.

CC BY-NC-SA Stephanie Asher

Ideation for Resilience

Idea  generation,  capture,  analysis,  synthesis.  !

Goal:  A  sustainable  way to  identify  and  develop  innovations.

1.  Build  your  idea  pool  

2.  Draw  a  sample  

3.  Connect  a  subset:    3  of  5  …  5  of  7  

4.  Note  key  connections  and  concepts

Connective Codex DIY idea pool

To  spark  solutions  in  the  future,we  want  to  sample  from the  most  comprehensive  pool  possible.  

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As  with  design  projects,so  with  long-­‐term  preservation.

Connective Codex DIY idea pool

is  an  idea  pool,  a  wellspring  of  future  possibilities.(Economic,  cultural,  technological…)  

We  want  to  carry  forward  as  many  vital  sparks  as  possible.

The Resilient City

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What  is  long-­‐term  resilience?  

What  sparks  it?  What  sustains  it?  

Identify  what  is  vital,  and  carry  it  forward.

What is Vital?

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Rebuilt  by  itscommunity every  20  years.  !

Always  rebuilt in  the  same  fashion.

Ise : Shinto Shrine

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Ise : Shinto Shrine

What  qualities of  Ise  are resilient  and  vital?      What  qualities of  Ise  are at  risk  over  time?

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What  qualities  of  Londonare  resilient  and  vital?  

   What  qualities  of  Londonare  at  risk  over  time?

London

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How  do  we  capture  what  a  city  is?  What  is  London’s  vital  heritage?  

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How  would  we  carrythose  vital  sparks  forward?

London

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Pale Blue Dotthe

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Consider again that dot. !!That's here. That's home. That's us.

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On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997 reprint, pp. xv–xvi

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A  thought-­‐experiment:    Resilient,  adaptive,  very  long-­‐term community  knowledge  centers,  to  carry  forward  vital  sparks.

Vessel Archivesvessel : container, conduit, medium, conveyance

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Like  the  Pale  Blue  Dot,  each  locality  on  Earth  is  unique.    Unique  strengths,  strategies,  challenges,  opportunities.  

!We  enjoy  a  moment  of  tremendous  capability

to  design  and  build  resilient  systems,  institutions,  cities,  habitats.  !

Solutions  must  reflect  local  needs  and  qualities,while  remaining  adaptable  around  the  world.

Vessel Archives

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Vessel ArchivesVessel  Open  Framework

Design  challenge  to  create  an  adaptable  modelfor  resilient,  long  term  reflections  of  Earth’s  heritage.  !Draws  inspiration  from  both  forward-­‐looking  and  traditional  approaches  to  museums,  libraries,  archives,  universities,  innovation  centers,  and  so  on…  !

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Vessel Archives3-­‐entry  layout  in  concept  model to  accommodate  collections,exhibitions,  and  labs  reflectingnature,  science,  and  culture.  !Other  typologies  are  possible(circular,  clustered,  and  so  on).

Holdings  would  include endangered  biodiversity (from  data  to  DNA)and  cultural  heritage(from  traditional  to  advanced media  types  and  formats).

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Vessel ArchivesLow-­‐profile  structures  could  scale  to  any  size  or  setting,  including  remote  or  sequestered  backup  instances.  !Alternate  form  factorssuch  as  a  tower  suggest degrees  of  visibility  and  prominence  as  a  landmark.  !Assets  and  IP  (symbol,  SketchUp  models,  and  so  on)  are  Open  Source.  !CC BY-SA Vessel Archives / Heath Rezabek

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Virtual  collection  accessible  online  

Crowd-­‐curated Biodiversity  database Cultural  heritage  database

Lunar Mission OnePublicArchives

Lunar Mission One 2014

Lunar Mission One will make fresh scientific discoveries on the Moon, but we also want the project to help us learn more about our own planet and its history. Bringing together schools, academics and the general public from across the world, Lunar Mission One will provide the funds to create a publically assembled, free to access digital record of Life on Earth – of human history and civilisation, and a scientific description of the biosphere with a database of species. Publically owned and accessible to all, our Public Archive is a hugely ambitious plan that could only be resourced by a project of this scale. !About the Public Archive The public archive is one of the most exciting and ambitious academic undertakings in history. It will contain a publicly assembled and owned digital record of life on Earth: a record of human history and civilisation worldwide to date, alongside a species database showing the biodiversity of animals and plants.

LM1 Public Archives

Lunar Mission One 2014

When the drilling experiments are complete, Lunar Mission One will bury the first edition of this public archive deep below the Moon’s surface in the 21st Century equivalent of a time capsule. This unprecedented educational resource will also be available online, free and accessible to all, for ongoing contributions and development after the Mission. For the first time in history, all this information will be in one place, free for everybody to access. !This will be the first time that academics from across science and the humanities have collaborated to create a peer reviewed public archive on this scale. To ensure that it is a true representation of human history and world biodiversity, academics and the general public from across the world will play a role in deciding its contents. There will also be an editorial board which will ensure that all information included in the archive is accurate. The public archive project will run alongside the Lunar Mission Trust’s education programme, meaning that schools, colleges and universities can all contribute to decisions and discussions about the content. !http://launch.lunarmissionone.com/index.php/lunar-mission-one/people-and-planet

LM1 Public Archives

Lunar Mission One 2014

If  LM1  Public  Archives  

were  physical  innovation  centers…  

What  would  they  be  like?What  qualities  would  they  have?

What if:Public Points of Presence

Lunar Mission One 2014

If  a  comprehensive,  resilient  archive  were  built  in  London…What  would  it  be  like?  What  qualities  would  it  have?

Vessel ArchiveLM1 Public Archive

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Vessel ArchiveLM1 Public Archive

Ideation  &  Brainstorming:  !Build  a  Connective  Codex  for  comprehensive archival  facilities  which  carry  forth a  vital  spark  of  adaptabilitythrough  time.  !Or:  Build  a  codex  foryour  own  chosen  design  challenge.

www.allourideas.org/2015-vessel-lm1

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Vessel ArchiveLM1 Public Archive

Themes    •    Challenges  !Resources    •    Stakeholders  !Requirements (Design  goals  /  constraints)  !Obliquities (wildcard  inspirations)

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Continuing Ideation

London  Environmental  

Challenge  continues  with  

ideation  towards  the  

second  week  of  sessions…  

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