Click to Play http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Crisis_Camp_London Discussion of the #crisiscampldn efforts at figuring out how to run tasks across distributed teams. http://files.howtolivewiki.com/crisiscampldn/claire_and_spike/ has high res pictures of the white boards, and the original footage for this video
Read more →Mike and I have been kicking around the question of “why don’t organizations act” as we get Buttered Side Down, the historic risk management consultancy off the ground. One thing we’ve come up with is this revision of John Boyd’s OODA loop. Boyd was a fighter pilot, and he lost most of his fights with [...]
Read more →Click to Play Injury – Six Ways To Die Workshop (Formens Hus) – Final Presentation Final report from the week-long “Six Ways To Die” workshop. http://www.appropedia.org/6WTD_2009 This team envisaged a small (< 1kg) air drop first aid kit oriented towards serious injuries like broken limbs or open wounds. The first aid kid would be dropped [...]
Read more →Click to Play http://www.appropedia.org/Eindhoven_Shelter_2009 We built this thing in about an hour out of scraps of mostly-rotten half-inch square stock. Amazing how sturdy it was at the end of the day. I think I’m going to do more of this “dodgydesic” stuff
Read more →Click to Play Eelko Brouwer, Netherlands Red Cross, covers the context of sheltering for this student group.
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Read more →The world is broken because a quarter or half of the people who die every year die from being poor. They have more children so they are sure of having some reach adulthood, and the resulting overpopulation is starving them in many countries. This is an oversimplification but is the basic mess. Utopian visions exist [...]
Read more →I have information overload. Again. Here’s why this is an increasing problem for organizational navigators. If there a billion people with access to publication online or in print, there are one thousand “one in a million” intelligences who’s thinking you can access. Assume you dedicate an hour to each one. That’s 25 working weeks of [...]
Read more →Click to Play Hunger – Six Ways To Die Workshop (Formens Hus) – Final Presentation Final report from the week-long “Six Ways To Die” workshop. http://www.appropedia.org/6WTD_2009 This team envisaged a PCM (Phase Change Material http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_Change_Material) blanket which would absorb heat from the sun in the day, and release the stored heat slowly at night to [...]
Read more →Click to Play Cold – Six Ways To Die Workshop (Formens Hus) – Final Presentation Final report from the week-long “Six Ways To Die” workshop. http://www.appropedia.org/6WTD_2009 This simple design for an extremely insulated tent or sleeping tube has several very clever features. Four or more of the two person sleeping modules can be combined to [...]
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