We build worlds for lots of reasons: to tell stories, to build brands, to explore future scenarios, to invent games, to change cultures or just to take a journey away from our current lives. Everyone has many worlds inside them and I’m excited to start to bring some more of Read more
I wonder what 2022 has in store. I’m certainly looking forward to teaching new students and meeting my colleagues again after a couple of months away in Europe. But it’s also time to make some predictions for the year ahead. Here, then, are ten technology trends that I think we Read more
In my last post I said I had been inspired to explore World Building in more detail. I’ve been building worlds throughout my career but not by that name. This post will try to explain why I am so (re)energised by the idea. We live in a world of complex Read more
Recently I had the pleasure of a couple of Zoom meetings with Alex McDowell. He is an academic, a film production designer and a world builder. Together with a small group from Hyper Island we met him after an introduction from Jakob Widerberg, one of my closest collaborators; Jakob until Read more
I took a long weekend break last week and decided to do no work but to read something that might inspire new ways of thinking. I found Creating Worlds: How to make immersive theatre by Jason Warren and it turned out to be the perfect choice. This is an extremely Read more
In last Saturday’s Guardian, Alan Finlayson, wrote a very interesting piece about how elector demands should drive political parties rather than values. He suggested that a focus on defining and working with shared values missed basic “wants and don’t wants” that all citizen’s have. We want our roads fixed, jobs Read more
Scarcely a day goes by when I am not designing or delivering learning; from Masters Level modules as part of Hyper Island’s MA in Digital Management to individual sessions in short courses for bankers and retailers. In each session I try and embrace the making/constructing and learning by doing Read more
Networks are a way of looking at many things: communication between people, links between web sites, ownership of companies, transportation and supply chain connections, marketing strategies and biological systems. There is a growing interest in Network Science, the study of networks, and at Hyper Island we have planned and accredited Read more
Recently I have taken a great interest in the development of mind and how a constructionist view of learning might help people solve harder problems. How we learn and how we facilitate learning appear to be key to designing effective learning experiences and in the last 20 years psychologists, neuroscientists Read more
I thoroughly enjoyed Shawn Callahan’s Putting Stories to Work in which he describes how to teach companies to use storytelling to improve leadership and support decision making, I was led to the book by exploring how Amazon uses Narratives (stories) instead of presentations to support meetings and Callahan provides a Read more