Comments on: Essay: What is an Open Creative Community?

By: Unconferencing collaboration (and public policy) « commonspace

Unconferencing collaboration (and public policy) « commonspace — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:23:54 +0000

[...] community stakeholders. That organization was the Toronto Transit Commission and the event and the open creative community that emerged from it was called Toronto [...]

By: Creative Class » Blog Archive » Understanding the Creative Community - Creative Class

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:05:55 +0000

[...] FloridaMon Feb 26th 2007 at 10:32am ESTUnderstanding the Creative Community Mark Kuznicki writes:I dream of a future where every individual has the power and ability todiscover his or her creative [...]

By: Remarkk! » Accelerating the TransitCamp community!

Remarkk! » Accelerating the TransitCamp community! — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:01:22 +0000

[...] TransitCamp is a solutions playground, not a complaints department. TransitCamp is an open creative community. [...]

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[...] Official Wikipedia description of what is a BarCamp – What is an Open Creative Community [...]

By: Remarkk! » Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea: Toronto TransitCamp

Remarkk! » Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea: Toronto TransitCamp — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:14:32 +0000

[...] community stakeholders. That organization was the Toronto Transit Commission and the event and the open creative community that emerged from it was called Toronto TransitCamp. You can read the article in Harvard Business [...]

By: Remarkk! » Richard Florida on “Every Single Human Being is Creative”

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:43:34 +0000

[...] I believe further insight into what is emerging can be seen by combining Florida’s economic lens with Ray and Anderson’s values lens. It is the combination of these two ideas plus the impact of enabling web technologies that I’m interested in exploring in what I call open creative communities. [...]

By: Remarkk! » CODE: Building the New Agora

Remarkk! » CODE: Building the New Agora — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:02:28 +0000

[...] I will be bringing a political economic and policy perspective to the conversation. I am interested in how open source software development communities provide a rich source of data for social scientists to understand commons-based peer production and its application to other forms of creative knowledge work. I am interested in the places of intersection between online communities or networks and physical place and space, something I’m calling open creative communities. [...]

By: Naked NYC » Open Creative Communities and the Death of Zero Sum

Naked NYC » Open Creative Communities and the Death of Zero Sum — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:02:29 +0000

[...] a lot about why we’ve gotten such an amazing response. I have a few theories, but reading “what is an Open Creative Community?” by Mark Kuznicki opened my eyes in some new ways. He defines these communities by “interest, [...]

By: VS Rambihar

VS Rambihar — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:53:31 +0000

Intriguing.

Please search femmefractal.com or
http://www.femmefractal.com/tsunami.htm

or Google Tsunami, Chaos, Global Heart for free full text book subtitled “using complexity science to rethink and make a better world”, also describing the global support after the Tsunami as global collaboration, and an invitation to use a similar thinking to solve other complex world problems. Update 2007 (not yet uploaded) describes global collaboration as described in Wikonomics, etc, as complexity.

This site also mentions a complexity approach to women’s health that may be useful and P 163 of the Tsuanmi book describes a fractal complexity model for identy and diversity.

We have used also this complexity approach for health promotion in Toronto over the past decade, with features similar to the open, selforganizing, creative, etc., mentioned in book.

Note: Stephen Hawking said that this is the century for complexity and another physicist, Heinz Pagels said in 1988 that “I am convinced that the nations and the people who master the new sciences of complexity will become the economic, cultural and political superpowers of the next century.”

The open selforganizing, emergent type things you mention happening now prove these two physicists right.

VS Rambihar
http://www.femmefractal.com

By: Scott Belsky

Scott Belsky — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:39:40 +0000

As you talk about the “power of self-organizing open creative communities…in order to solve the most difficult problems of our time,” it becomes clear that collaborations (and sharing best practices) are a major output of open creative communities.

We think a lot about the benefits of collaboration between creative professionals at Behance. In our work to foster productivity in the creative community, we have learned that creatives across realms face common challenges and frustrations around implementing ideas. A community promotes a sense of ACCOUNTABILITY and a source of FEEDBACK…two invaluable forces when it comes to making ideas happen.

We’re documenting examples from our research on productive creativity at http://www.behance.com.