Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Slow knowledge: uses of the postcard in re-forming organisational time, place and meaning
May 28, 2003
Tony Lindt from SDC sent me this e-card as a thank you after we'd run a workshop to build a community around the culture practices and expertise of SDC. We'd used the postcard exercise in the SDC storyguide to kick things off. (You might guess he's a fly fisherman.)
Authors: Stephanie Colton, Angela Dove, Victoria Ward, Clive Holtham. Paper presented at 'In Search of Time' conference, Palermo, Italy May 2003
This is one of my favourite ideas and think pieces. Sparknow has played, over the years, with pinboards and postcards as ways of breaking down and reassembling fragments of evidence, or as a way to fold the edges of the organisation over so that they meet the middle and small nuggets of rich experience pass easily to places where they can be seen, heard and touch people.
This article was co-written for a very interesting annual conference that takes place in Palermo and was a chance for us to start to unfold these ideas more thoughtfully. Some of this work got taken forward into the SDC Storyguide. At some stage in very piece of work we try to have a postcard moment of some kind or another.
