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𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱-𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀: 𝗨𝗻𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝟰𝟱 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝟭𝟭, 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗘𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗻, Mosaic-HEC Montréal, HEC Montréal, Canada Helene Delacour, IAE Nancy School of Management - Universite de Lorraine, France 🔗https://lnkd.in/ejYTnn_s "Events have increasingly attracted the attention of organization researchers and practitioners, not least events that are so important that they help to configure or reconfigure an exchange field. The paper by Etienne Capron and Hélène Delacour, accepted for publication in Organization Studies, points to the importance of those events that are bound to particular place, thereby taking physical space seriously. For developing their understanding of field-configuring places (FCP), the two authors specifically highlight the role of a building in Montreal in the evolution of the field of projection mapping in this creative city." 𝗝ö𝗿𝗴 𝗦𝘆𝗱𝗼𝘄, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany -𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿- How does a place shape a field? Our latest study explores how places can drive innovation and community in the arts. Specifically, we dive into the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), a cultural venue in Montreal, dedicated to projection mapping. Our research introduces the concept of the Field-Configuring Place (FCP), setting it apart from the well-known Field-Configuring Event (FCE). We also shed light on how physical places can provide stability while supporting the growth and configuration of new fields through community support, fostering interorganizational relationships, and being an innovation catalyst. By examining the SAT building's location, material form, and evolving meanings, we uncover how these factors shape the field of projection mapping through various stages of its evolution. This study bridges the gap between field configuration and place-based studies, highlighting the synergy between these areas. #Place #FieldConfiguringPlace #FieldConfiguringEvent #ExchangeField #ProjectionMapping ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paolo Quattrone, Tammar B. Zilber

Over the past week, the World Urban Forum hosted their twelfth session, with the theme "It All Starts at Home". As cities face the challenges of climate change, they are also uniquely positioned to lead the change in creating sustainable, resilient, and environmentally minded communities. Unfortunately, the impacts of the climate crisis weigh most heavily on marginalized communities, who are often at the highest risk of facing climate disasters, health risks, food insecurity, and water scarcity. This leads us to talk about the second dialogue, "Cities and the climate crisis", and the importance this holds to us at Dream Networks. To drive effective climate action, we must involve and amplify the voices of marginalized groups—including women, persons with disabilities, the poor, children and youth, older persons, and minority communities—we can develop solutions that are both inclusive and impactful. A recent project by Dream Networks provides example of localized action in action. In our Playful Engineers programme, through interactive workshops, children from local primary and secondary schools explored how engineering can help tackle sustainability challenges. Led by volunteer engineers, these young minds identified local climate issues, then used design tools like modelling and CAD to develop creative solutions. The final result? A public exhibit that transformed spaces in London into welcoming hubs of innovation. The children’s ideas occupied these spaces and showcased how every voice—even the youngest among us—can play a role in addressing the climate crisis. The impact was inspiring: “It made me feel like I would change the world.” — Student participant Over 1,000 community members experienced the exhibit, and our young participants demonstrated how powerful locally-led, community-driven climate action can be. #worldurbanforum #wuf12 #digitalera #communities #play4all UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) See below to read more about the impact of our Playful Engineers project: https://lnkd.in/ep6r7VPY

Upgrading an exhibition stall with a 1:1 ratio digital screen offers a fresh and dynamic way to engage visitors. Here's a creative visual solution for incorporating such a screen into your stall design:Chetan SuchakCreative Eye Events & TechnologyCreative Visual Solutions

Last year Studio Inscape (NL) hosted the Landscape Makers Congress. This was one of the outcome of a long lasting design-research we are undertaking in the province of Zeeland. Together with Maarten Meijer, I wrote: "...some reflections are offered on the different concepts and strategies operationalised in the Landscape Makers Congress: its playful use of multifocality, its dramatisation of temporality and its staging of a particular experience of politics. Thus, this text offers some reflections on community engagement using design-based methodologies in the context of politicised (and the politicisation of ) environments." The Global Environment#17 issue (doi: 10.3828/whpge.63837646622485) Many thanks for the collaboration with the Watersnoodmuseum and Zuidwestelijke Delta, as well as the support of Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie

Upgrading an exhibition stall with a 1:1 ratio digital screen offers a fresh and dynamic way to engage visitors. Here's a creative visual solution for incorporating such a screen into your stall design:

Last week I was at the International Museum Construction Congress (#imcc2024) in Edinburgh. While the setting was stunning it was the content that was particularly inspiring. One theme that kept coming up and particularly resonated with me was the importance of taking time to interrogate the purpose or mission driving your project, and more specifically, your purpose in terms of how you hope to serve and support your community. I particularly appreciated the candid insight we were given into how this informed the Natural History Museum's recent redevelopment of their gardens. It was fascinating and affirming to see how pausing to think about how the gardens should support the museum's wider mission and serve its community completely changed NHM's vision for the space, and led to them creating a much more inspiring and generous space. Taking the time to think about your purpose is something we always encourage our clients to do, and I believe it's an essential part of the process of creating a truly (in the widest sense of the word) sustainable visitor experience. Several of the case studies shared at the conference reiterated the point that whatever your project (a new exhibition or programme, a renovation of your physical assets, a complete redevelopment of your museum) defining the 'why' in terms of an overarching purpose or mission that relates to community and visitors helps focus thinking and streamline decisions about the 'what' and 'how' and ensures you produce something with real community impact. Getting buy-in to that overarching purpose from your wider team and stakeholders at the outset also helps ensure everyone is on board with and understands the decisions made as the project progresses. It can also help with the inevitable changes in project team personnel on those longer projects. While it may feel like unnecessary intellectualising when timescales are tight, in the long term it will help your project run more smoothly and ensure the end result is truly transformative. #museums #design #strategy #direction #vision #nhm

It was valuable to support and help other cohorts during the Barcelona Design Week, gaining insight into their perspectives on the master's program and projects related to water and climate change. #SDC #BarcelonaDesignWeek #Drought #Catalunya #Design #StrategicDesign

📢 Creative Industry Workshops in Galway: “Elevate your Innovative and Creative Potential in Non-urban Areas!”

🌊 Are you an artist and passionate about sustainability? Apply now for one of our 20 residencies and collaborate with experts to tackle water challenges through art and technology. Deadline: June 26, 2024. Budget: 40.000€ per residency. This is your chance to turn ideas into impactful artworks and be part of the solution! Take advantage of this opportunity to make an impact with your ideas and work. S+T+ARTS4WaterII builds on the success of S+T+ARTS4WaterI to tackle the environmental and societal challenges within Europe's ports and port cities. 🌊 Join us on a journey to drive innovation and promote sustainability in water management within port ecosystems. S+T+ARTS4WaterII is initiated by the European Commission and the United Nations. The consortium uses advanced digital technologies to explore sustainable solutions in port ecosystems, leveraging lessons from the previous project. Focused on clean water as a fundamental right and aligned with UN SDGs 6 and 14, the project engages industry professionals, researchers, artists, designers, policymakers, and local communities. The consortium partners include VITO, Camargo Corrêa Infra, Dublin City University, drugo more, Waag Futurelab, TBA21, OGR Torino, PiNA, Beta Festival and Klimat Biennale - Kunsthaus Wien. #STARTS4WATERII #OpenCall #ArtAndTechnology #Sustainability #WaterManagement #Innovation

My friend Andi Cuddington introduced me to the idea of your Museum of Almost a few weeks ago. The Museum of Almost is the space in your mind where all of those projects that you almost launched or ideas you almost sketched out or books you almost wrote or trips you almost took are on display. Your museum might be a prominent spot, where the exhibits are well-tended and have lots of detail. Or it might be a more out of the way space, where dust gathers and the lights are flickering. I like this metaphor because it acknowledges the work that is involved with hanging on to almost finished projects. Sometimes it takes a while for the moment to be right or for an idea to develop. But what amount of time and energy is lost on these museums to inertia, to not just getting on with things? Talking through the Museum of Almost with Andi and some other Design Thinking Zeal colleagues did get me moving on a few illustration projects that have been kicking around my museum for a while. With the nudge of our conversation, I drew a few of them and felt true satisfaction and openness. Creating a bit more space in my Museum of Almost is freeing up energy to get some of those bigger projects moving. My museum has a few projects that I'm working away on, that will likely leave the exhibition space in the next year. There are others that are receding into the shadows. And there are a few in-between that I am truly unsure about. Here's to curating the Museum of Almost with care and attention. And to the projects that are ready to get booted out. #DesignThinking #Illustration #Research #PhDCareers #Facilitation