Knowledge Games (#kgames)
On Tuesday October 13th, 2009 we had the opportunity to host Dave Gray, chairman of XPLANE, founder of the VizThink conference, and mind behind the Unbook. An eclectic mix of entrepreneurs, visual thinkers and activists play-tested ideas around Dave’s current research for a new publication around Knowledge Games.
Parts of a successful game design.
The basic premise was to reinterpret any part of your daily business activity as a game. The group asked questions around health care, service design, gifting, education, comedy and collaboration. Dave listed out community, energy, space, modulation and method as required components of a successful game interaction. We had some interesting discussion around the use of “community”, after which Dave opened some interesting debate on Twitter surrounding #community.
Alternate Strategy Game Cube
Chris Fahey proposed a strategic Rubik’s cube that could augment existing brainstorming props like the Oblique Strategy cards from Brian Eno/Peter Schmidt or the IDEO Method Cards (@mikepeng made us all jealous when he waved around a beta version of said Method Card App on his iPhone). “The cube is a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment that a design process almost always needs to be reconfigured as you go along, and that the problem itself — in this model, the problem might be to solve for colors, to create a meaningful flow, to match shapes, or something else entirely — might need to be redefined, too.”
Stacey Massignan packs out ER Flash Cards
Stacey Massignan framed out an Emergency Room Flashcard game in a do-this-or-the-patient-dies setup where all the primary review and consulting steps are broken into separate cards. This could easily be adapted as method cards or a phone app. We are excited to see where she takes this.
Collaborative Brief Development
Shaun, Andrea and I looked at framing collaborative brief development a multi-turn exchange between the community organizer and the community. While the exchange process has the natural propensity to seem fluid, there are three distinct exchanges that occur: Open Question and Response, Selection and Voting, Curation and Request for Participation.
Attendees: @marcelbotha, @shaunabe, @thenhuch, @davegray, @chrisfahey, @mjbroadbent, @lksriv, @tobyd, @mikepeng, @beakermaster, @smilegeneration, @heathr, @massignan
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