What are the different types of innovation? The diagram below offers five, giving an illustrative example from art history and implications for a GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) institution: Incremental innovation is a common type of innovation. New technology seeps in and gradual change happens. Oil painting is an…

I tested the inspirational sparks with an informant. We stopped on video games: ‘Nintendo — now that is an innovative company. They distance themselves from the competition. Sony and Microsoft push for better graphics and higher performance. But Nintendo experiment!’ As I write, Nintendo have released a new Zelda game…

I have set up these innovation field notes as a research blog to support a series of Innovation Week’s. An Innovation Week is a week of activity that gravitates around a keyword and related practice. The first keyword we shall be exploring is ‘map’, and the practice is data visualization. …

Reality is a weird thing. There is an installation at the National Gallery entitled ‘My Reality is Different’. Check it out. It’s an Indian video artist shredding the masterpieces of the Gallery. Profaning the sacred images of the western imagination. Of course, they’re not the real thing. Malani has created…

Our program “Researching and Designing the Postdigital World’ advanced rapidly on Tuesday. This was thanks to a three-hour immersion session with collaborators at London College of Communication. A big thanks, in alphabetical order, to Amira, Ania, Atlana, Azy, Indigo, Jade, Lola and Phoebe for their meaningful contributions. Four workstream channels We have begun…

I’ll be updating this journal with reflections on a new research program into the ‘postdigital’. This project aims to spark discussion on our changing relationship with technology, and to experiment with new processes of collective and creative collaboration. As an approach, the postdigital is still forming. It offers a reflection…

InsightOS has been a hive of activity! In this newsletter we’ll share some of the cultural stuff that we’ve been noodling on in Salon #3 and #4, as well as some useful resources to mark IWD :) Originally posted on InsightOS #3 Portability Following our Refashioning Activism Insight Salon, we kicked off…

Originally published on InsightOS Over the past weeks we have been making strides. Thanks to our salons, and the beautiful collective members, the form of InsightOS is emerging. Here are some of the ‘cultural selections’ that we were gravitating around in our first two Insight Salons. Enjoy :) #1 Playful Chaos We used…

We organise our insight projects by allocating resource to the following three ‘departments’: The Department of Style, Brand and Design Breathing spirit into the project; creating mood boards; researching and designing visuals; mapping the concepts via infographics; and making the whole thing stand out from the crowd. Key roles: Mood maker: designing the atmosphere, vibrations and feeling…