Lifekludging Innovation
August 1st, 2006 | by dnw |There I was, feeling very uninspired reading through my blog feeds and JP went and shook me with another gem, this time about innovation.
The technique was the innovation. As a consumer I could apply that technique to whatever I felt like, and creativity could flow. Innovation happens when the consumer applies an innovative technique to work on purposes that were not considered by the originator of the technique.
What I think JP’s talking about here revolves around the issue of context.
Context is one of those personal ‘memes’ I’ve had whirring around my gut since starting Lifekludger – long before I even knew what a ‘meme’ was. From time to time I’ve written other places about some of these inklings about context.
I wrote about what the issue of context means to me and to Lifekludging when I wrote what Lifekludger is about. Here’s the relevent bit:
Contexts and Clues.
There’s lots of people on planet Earth doing lots of things for lots of reasons…or no reason at all. All this activity takes place in a context of the person’s life. The persons life itself is in the context of being on this planet.
All this activity leaves clues. This blog will try to look outside of the contexts the activity is in for clues on how it could be applied in a different context. To get from one context to another takes a Kludge!
You can read the whole thing here.
So in the context of my speaking about context, JP’s thoughts on a cooking technique applied in a different context, rightly shines the light on the fact that Lifekludging takes innovation.
As the subtitle on the blog says – “unexpected custom uses”.
So often we can be living with ‘blinkers’ on, giving us tunnel vision as to how we do certain things, what certain things are used for, how to apply a technique in a specific circumstance. This stifles creativity and the ability to see possibilities. Possibilities that could offer potentially life changing solutions.
Lifechanging Lifekludges.
Tht’s what it’s about my friends.
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By fang on Aug 1, 2006 | Reply
This is what my ‘Playful Prototyping’ meme is all about.
– It worked for Microsoft’s "Exchange Ideas" programme in 1999
– It worked for the Innovation Centre until 2004
– It is working in the maker communities
– It will work for LifeKludger
Fang
By Dave the Lifekludger on Aug 2, 2006 | Reply
‘Playful Prototyping’ eh. I know we’ve chatted about it at length but never heard you put it in such terms. I like succinct terms, can get my head around it!
Right now I need to kludge a time-machine….