{"id":319,"date":"2011-10-24T19:49:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T19:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balance-unbalance2011.hexagram.ca\/?page_id=319"},"modified":"2011-10-25T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T20:41:14","slug":"6-10","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/balance-unbalance2011.hexagram.ca\/?page_id=319","title":{"rendered":"#6 – #10"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Transdisciplinary Activity #6<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Using Improv to Save the World – How deep play can drive innovation<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Belina Raffy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract<\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong>How do we work together when we don\u2019t know what the ultimate solution is? Or\u00a0when we know what we want, but we have no idea how to get there? How can we\u00a0allow ourselves to change and to be generous with others when we are afraid? How\u00a0can we train ourselves to be masterful at adapting to and including new information\u00a0in to the story as it arises?<\/p>\n

In this experiential session, we will work with either a) the boldest transformation\u00a0challenge that we\u2019re working with leading organizations in the UK on to solve or b)\u00a0the most radical vision of the future from the conference \u2013 whichever is most\u00a0inspiring to the group. We will introduce and use improvisational mindsets,\u00a0principles, and techniques as a powerful technology to support people tackling\u00a0these issues in doing what improvisers do best: to co-create solutions under\u00a0pressure, in real-time, with the client watching \u2013 joyfully.<\/p>\n

Our context is the most important one around – working with business people to\u00a0fundamentally change how business is done. We support them in shifting the global\u00a0crisis from something to fear and be mentally shut down by \u2013 to something we can\u00a0work with collaboratively, creatively, quickly and nimbly to create changes now. We\u00a0develop mindsets and skills so that no matter what emerges, we can respond well,\u00a0together.<\/p>\n

In this session, we will be exploring what improvisation is and how it might be useful\u00a0in working collaboratively to save the world. Everyone is welcome. No experience\u00a0necessary.<\/p>\n

Bio<\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong>Belina is half French, half American and\u00a0lives in England. She was made in\u00a0Paris, born in the US, and raised in the\u00a0US, Mexico and Canada. She grew up\u00a0playing in the forests of North America\u00a0She spent the first part of her\u00a0professional life as a cross-functional\u00a0project manager for Citigroup, using her\u00a0ability to intuitively work with complex\u00a0systems, connect with people and ask\u00a0good questions. During this time, she\u00a0started taking improvisation classes and\u00a0noticed that her complex, dynamic role\u00a0felt easier. In 1999, she got an MBA\u00a0from Cranfield in England and has\u00a0worked ever since with people around\u00a0the world to build skills in business\u00a0transformation, change, improvisational\u00a0leadership, collaboration, creativity, and\u00a0communication.<\/p>\n

She uses improvisation mindsets,\u00a0principles and techniques originating in\u00a0theatre and adapted to business as both\u00a0technology and content. Her passion\u00a0and next book topic is to \u2018use improv to\u00a0save the world\u2019 \u2013 and for her, this can\u00a0range from improving the interaction\u00a0between two people to world work.\u00a0Belina is the Empress of Maffick Ltd, and\u00a0has worked with organizations including\u00a0Charities Financial Directors\u2019 Group,\u00a0Kew Royal Botantical Gardens, Bristol\u00a0Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson,\u00a0Novo Nordisk, General Motors, the\u00a0Cranfield School of Management,\u00a0London Business School, Exeter\u00a0Business School, London School of\u00a0Economics, and Moscow Higher School\u00a0of Economics.<\/p>\n

To keep her improv skills\u00a0sharp, she also works with young\u00a0offenders at the Reading HM Prison.\u00a0She has also chaired two Applied\u00a0Improvisation Network world\u00a0conferences (Portland and Baltimore).<\/p>\n


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Transdisciplinary Activity #7<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Soundwalking Interactions<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Andra McCartney and Don Sinclair<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract<\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>The Soundwalking Interactions project investigates how people listen during soundwalk activities and artworks. We will present a public soundwalk, invite members of the public to listen to a recording of the walk during a workshop, and then participate in the creation of a sound work out of that recording that will document the event. Participants are invited to bring audio recording equipment if they wish.<\/p>\n

The session will include a 30 minute soundwalk, discussion of listening practices, and demonstration by collaborators Andra McCartney (Concordia University) and Don Sinclair (York University) of ways to work with soundwalk materials to make meaningful environmental narratives. All participants will be given access to a sound recording of the walk online and invited to take part in an internet forum of soundwalk recording and listening exchanges.<\/p>\n

Bios<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span> Andra McCartney. Since the mid 1990s, I have been developing an approach to the creation of electroacoustic soundwalk art which integrates audience responses into the creative development of walks and installations. Through my background in ethnomusicology, communication, and cultural studies, I think and write about electroacoustic, sound art and sound recording fields as cultures, considering what kinds of interpretive routines are acceptable within these disciplines, and how aesthetic and professional discourses are established. I transform soundwalk recordings into interactive installations, produced collaboratively in recent years with Don Sinclair, interactive artist and professor at York University in Toronto. I am especially interested in questions of gender in relation to sound technologies. I have written most extensively about Vancouver soundscape composer, Hildegard Westerkamp. The In and Out of the Sound Studio research project investigates the working practices of soundmakers from a range of different professions, focusing particularly on the work of prominent women soundmakers. My present project, Soundwalking Interactions, focuses on the experiences of audiences with different kinds of soundwalk activities.<\/p>\n

Don Sinclair is an Associate Professor in the Digital Media program in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University in Toronto, Canada. His creative research revolves around physical computing, interactive sound art, laptop performance, web art, database art, interactive dance, video projection, cycling art, sustainability, green architecture and choral singing. In addition to his internationally exhibited web art and video projects, he collaborates with dance artists, theatre practitioners and sound artists to create works that explore movement-based manipulation of sound and image. See his research creation web site http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dws\/research-creative.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Transdisciplinary Activity #8<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Aesthetic Practice on Environmental Crisis<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Vera Ivanaj and Paul Shrivastava<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract<\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong>We propose to explore an original method for organizational development called \u201cAesthetic Practice\u201d which engages participants in reflection and action on environmental crises. This method uses the artistic medium of painting, to help group members to create a vision and develop a strategy for the future. Participants will gain an embodied understanding of environmental crisis by thinking, acting and feeling collectively. They will use metaphors to gain deeper knowledge of the problem, through active interaction and engagement process.\u00a0Aesthetic practice methodology is designed to help participants relate to the problem of environmental crisis in a integrated way: 1) through their emotions (how environmental crisis makes them feel); 2) through their senses (how they experience the environmental crisis sensorily); 3) through their rational and logical mind (how the different elements of the environmental crisis are related); and 4) through their intuition (what makes sense to them).\u00a0We will animate the session by following 6 steps of aesthetic methodology, engaging participants to work in small and the large groups:<\/p>\n

Step 1: Define the<\/strong> problem and the desired outcome<\/strong>. We will begin with a brief group conceptual discussion of problem of environmental crisis and the role of aesthetic practices in addressing it. The goal is here to collectively better understand the situation and work on the desired outcomes formulated like a new mission statement.<\/p>\n

Step 2: Conceive a \u201cMetaphor\u201d.<\/strong> Attendees, assigned to groups of 5, will apply a metaphor to the environmental crisis situation which addresses their desired outcomes.<\/p>\n

Step 3: Paint the metaphor. <\/strong>Each group of 5 will paint their metaphor in large paper pads, by using multi-colored markers and other painting supplies.<\/p>\n

Step 4: Extend and refine the metaphor with input from other groups\u201d<\/strong>. Paintings are passed from one table to another, and each group will interpret and explicate the painting of another group, to fully appreciate the meaning. Then the comments are recorded and presented to the full group in order to help groups refine and complete their vision.<\/p>\n

Step 5: Add refinements and extensions and apply the metaphor to the reality. <\/strong>Refinements and extensions coming from the others groups are first added into the original group drawing. Then each group applies the metaphor to the \u201creality\u201d by formulating future actions to be undertaken in order to resolve the problem. Each group presents these actions to the full group and discuss about what these actions mean for change.<\/p>\n

Step 6: Realize a full group painting: <\/strong>Participants will paint a full group \u201cart piece\u201d, a painting representing their future vision of the environmental crisis. <\/strong>Each participant will make his personal contribution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Vera Ivanaj is an Associate Professor of Management Sciences in the Chemical Engineering School (ENSIC) of the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), Loraine University, France. She received her M.S. in Economic Sciences, from the University of Tirana and her PhD in Management Sciences, from the University of Nancy II. Prior to joining ENSIC, she was a faculty member of the ICN Business School and the Business Administration Institute at the University of Metz. She developed curriculum and activities increasing students’ attentiveness to cultural, economical, environmental and social issues they will face in their future professions. She teaches courses in Strategic Decision Making, Change Management, Human Resource Management, Project management, Conflict Resolution, Corporate Culture and Leadership for managers and engineers. She is also actively involved in the executive education courses, conducting sessions on such topics as strategy formation, individual and team performance, empowerment, compensation and benefits and other organisational performance issues. Her current research interests include strategic decision making, art and sustainable development, management education and diversity. She has published several articles and chapters on enhancing capabilities of organizations to take decisions and to perform more effectively. Recently, she worked on a major international research project on \u201cMultinationals and Sustainable Development\u201d, leading to two major publications: \u201cMultinational Enterprises and the Challenge of Sustainable Development\u201d, Northampton: Edward. Elgar Publishing, 2009; \u201cSustainable Development and the \u201cMultinational Corporation as a Tool of Competitiveness\u201d, Special issue, Multinational Business Review, 2007. Vera Ivanaj is also a contemporary painter and works for public and private organizations with aesthetic practices and creativity methods to resolve management problems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Transdisciplinary Activity #9<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Strategies for Product and Service Design<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>Dr. Carmela Cucuzzella<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Abstract<\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong>This workshop explores and discusses the differences in output and applicability between design approaches that focus on (1) the redesign of the sample product more efficiently by understanding and identifying problem areas (based on an eco-efficiency strategy); (2) the redesign of the functionality of the product more efficiently, so rethinking how else the function can be provided and designed (based on strategies such as closed loop approaches etc.); and (3) exploring the way in which the needs addressed by the given product can be provided differently (based on a sufficiency strategy).<\/p>\n

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Bio<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0Carmela Cucuzzella is a professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia University. She received her PhD in Environmental Design in 2011 from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. She is a researcher at the Laboratory LEAP and leads the research focus on sustainable development. She is an expert in sustainable design (design for sustainability) as well as on assessment methodologies for analyzing the impacts of designed entities (Life Cycle Assessment – LCA, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design – LEED) and has developed several comparative analyses on the repercussions of the introduction of environmental standards in the public space design competitions. Her research interests lie predominantly in integrating concerns and questions related to sustainability with the exploratory nature of design thinking by adopting ethical approaches to the environment (built as well as natural).<\/p>\n


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Transdisciplinary Activity #10<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

From genomes to the environment: Can we create a sustainable future? A sticky wiki installation<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

David Secko, Anne Goldenberg, Anne Gorry, Lisa Gualtieri and David Mason<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract<\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>The Genozymes-GE3LS project is a Concordia based science and society group which, among other activities, attempts to trigger public discussion and knowledge building about the environmental and societal dimensions of genomic science, with a special focus on environmental footprints, sustainability, communications and public engagement.<\/p>\n

For Balance \u2013 Unbalance 2011, this multidisciplinary team will present an installation that plays the role of catalyst for a public discussion on the potential outcomes of genomic research as related to our degrading environment. It will include a three dimensional participatory mind-map that includes diverse material for participants to consider and include in the structure, as well as an innovative synchronized structured wiki interpretation, as a continuous way to openly develop knowledge in this field.<\/p>\n

The participatory installation will invite the public and experts to discuss the relationship between science and society, with a focus on the role of genomics. We will use participant-generated content from a previous public engagement event as a starting point and encourage participants to contribute and link ideas, projects and themes. Ultimately, the installation will work to integrate all contributions into a structured wiki to add both permanence and impact to deliberative outcomes on the event. This will make the generated content, which will address our collective future in the face of a global environmental crisis, available for successive projects focusing on linked ideation and the generation of meaningful environmental solutions that respect multiple value systems.<\/p>\n

Bios<\/span>: \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Anne Goldenberg has a Ph.D. in communication and sociology. She is a facilitator and a socio-cognitive sculpture that has produced several participatory installations around the word. In particular, the installation ourcollnnectiveminds (http:\/\/ourcollnnectiveminds.blogspot.com\/<\/a> ) is the partial inspiration for this project. She will lead the physical installation.<\/p>\n

Anne Gorry is an epistemologist, and specialist in the relationship between sciences and society. She is finishing an MD about scientific mediation and the sciences and society discourse. She will provide analytic resources for the installation.<\/p>\n

Lisa Gualtieri is a Research Assistant with the Genozymes-GE3LS project, where she studies environmental sustainability issues related to genomics-based biofuel development. She will provide research support and issue documentation.<\/p>\n

David Mason is a long term innovator and technologist, supporting knowledge development, public engagement and digital literacy in fields including the formative Internet, government, health, science and non profits. He will lead the structured wiki.<\/p>\n

David Secko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism at Concordia University. His research links across journalism, public engagement, science and ethical issues to clarify and experiment with the roles of the public, experts and journalists in the democratic governance of biotechnology. He is the team leader and will add expertise in communications, public engagement methodologies and event facilitation.<\/p>\n


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