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4.14 | Notes
Project “Backdoor” (just there for a project)
Introverted
Exploited/ Disillusioned
Resisting prescribed community building
Perceived differences in work/skills/needs
Competitive/ Protectiveness (of staff/I.P/Time)
Over scheduled - No Chance for organic interaction
Community
Serendipity
Atmosphere
Productivity
Innovation/Creativity
Multi-disciplinary interaction
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April 9 | Visit Take-Aways
Our Questions...
Tell us about how you discovered CSI.
What are some key factors that made you choose CSI initially?
Tell us about CSI’s on boarding space: orientation books, DECAs, Salad Club etc process.
How do you use your CSI space and the Starrett-Lehigh building?
How far is your commute to CSI?
Describe the community at CSI as it pertains to your organizations.
What do you do when you’re not working here? Is there another outside space in which you work at?
What does co-working mean to you?
What does community mean to you?
What other places did you consider going to when looking for office space?
If you could change anything about CSI, what would it be?
How is you CSI experience diff from the same as what you expected?
How do you give back to the CSI community?
Interview with Private Space Renters: The Agenda Project’s Hannah Hendler
Her friend was an intern at CSI and recommended it to her -- space was great and would accommodate her and her team suitably. The Agenda Project has been around for almost a year (May 2015) and planning to stick around. When asked about her on boarding processes and orientation pocket, she was more than enthusiastic about it stating that the “DECAs were super helpful” with getting her team situated.
Other Notes:
Loose Passport - partnered with other co-working spaces around the world and country so that CSI members can use them while traveling.
“How do we get people to re-commit to their socially good promise?”
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4.7 | Thurs
Discovery Research + Analysis + Intentions
Recruiter’s role to:
find people
screen them
Financial service AMEX and another company about how they choose their cards.
$200 per person to interview. Taxpayer reforms (Financial services with social innovation)
Today!
Review discovery research that you have conducted so far.
Discuss process transitions: Knowing where you’re going, while negotiating the co-evolution of design problems and solutions.
Discuss discovery questions + intentions: What’s the problem or opportunity you’re designing for? What do you need to discover?
Review what CSI already knows about welcome pathways and community building?
Notes!
Recore Center (Hacker Center) > Mentoring, Incubator/Training
Yik Yak > Connection interests in real time/space
Studio in a school > Personality test/ placement system
Cologne Resources
College Baptism > Friendly Hazing + S. Hunt
D.I. > Fake friends / Collaboration Project
Waldorf School > Rituals/ Elder Guides
Get Lost Day > Disorientation for bonding
AA Sponsor > Mentor/ Guide | someone you know
Spark Labs NYC > Summer camp, events, festivities, orientation
Greek Life > Pledge class new member chair
Where’s Waldo? > Find the newcomer game
Green Spaces (Denver co-working) > Ride sharing 2 bonding/ Co-habit
5 Key Questions
5 Back-Up Ones
01. Intrapreneurs, Hot Desks Users and M-S Faculty
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4.7 | Precedence
How did Toronto form their CSI?
In 2003...
Tonya Surman (Commons Group)
Margie Zeidler (Urbanspace Property Group*)
Mary Rowe (Ideas That Matter)
Pat Tobin (Heritage Canada)
Eric Meerkamper (DECODE)
...all shared the same vision of having a shared workspace for social innovators.
With all the many questions in mind such as: How can we...
improve access to office facilities?
lower cost of administration?
let organizations focus on their mission?
tear down silos that keep organizations apart?
become a catalyst for social change?
These are their answers. (Ta-da!)
Robertson Building at 215 Spadina Avenue in Toronto, which had been purchased by Urbanspace Property Group. Once the decision to go ahead was made in January 2004, the Zeidler family stepped up and offered to pay for the leasehold improvements in a 6,000 sq. ft. space on the first floor. The Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Harbinger Foundation stepped forward with core operating grants to help with start-up and operational costs. Tonya Surman volunteered for six months to get the project off the ground, and the Centre for Social Innovation Spadina opened its doors to 14 founding tenants in June 2004.
Here to read more!
Some members, examples:
141 Books Taran Chadha (Youth and Children education)
350.org (Climate Safety | Civic Engagement, Environment)
Bold+Brave is a social enterprise that provides community leadership and engagement for social causes and breaking norms in leadership and thinking. (Community Development, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights)
Other Co-Working Spaces?
General Assembly
Fueled Collective
WeWork Labs
Projective Space
New Work City
Hive at 55
Tech Space
Greendesk
Greenspaces
Brooklyn Desks
WeCreateNYC
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4.2 | Thurs
Incubator: Parsons x CSI but failed
Incubator projects start to become back burner projects due to recent grad’s busy work schedules or trying to look for jobs.
Skillshares | Toronto - New York community
Connections (a lot) - Under Armour, Martha Stewart, Hugo Boss, Truck vendors etc.
Starlett-Lehigh has schedule of the food vendors.
Toronto x New York culture is different? Behavior, pattern, self-interest?
It could be patronizing due to the fact that people could lead community differently. Toronto socialist vs. New York socialist.
Questions to ponder:
How did Toronto form their CSI?
How does Google welcome their new employees? e.g. Garage, Accelerator
Entrepreneurship and who’s doing it well?
Who are the current members? What do they do?
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3.31 | Tues
How can we keep members/users accountable for their mission they wanted to contribute?
Movie nights, Salad Club and depends on facilitators on fostering community?
e.g. Google Garage*
What is the length of the “welcome pathway”?
Are there boundaries?
I. How do we get outside visitors comfortable with CSI?
II. Get them known to what they do and be able to share their mission.
Do you see other space-sharing companies as competitors?
See it as a space for social innovation and fostering community
Doing your own dishes
“hey man let me help you with that”
Starts to come in to play with the kind of people you hire, fostering community. People who do not need micro-managing. Willing to go out of way to help and assist.
They have to be nice and needs a social mission.
Makes sure everybody comes here and that they meet everybody.
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March 12, 2015
How should we present our final deliverables on Tuesday?
- Modular guidelines
- introduce this concept as modular
- “how to deploy an event set up by 2-3 people who needs assistance”
-* add the ‘materials we can use’ based on what Wendy said she has, totes etc
time frame, modularity/ flexibility - 20/20, charting the way, useable stuff
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03.10.2015
How should we present the final deliverables to Wendy and the guests?
Ideas of presenting:
Video, walk-throughs, brochure packets
What to refine/edit:
the storyboard, user personas, the language of how we present things
Overview, Steps, material, content
Instruction Manual :
Cover, Table of Contents, Timeline graphic, what, why, how, when
How: goal of activity, attitude making
When: when does it happen?
what: are the tools and materials?
With pictures in on the side.
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In Class Notes
Charting the Way Party: A Quick Guide
One month: Pick a workable area to map.
Three weeks: Promote party
Two weeks: Prepare the party
One week: Visit meeting site to make sure there are no surprises
Day of: Introduce yourself, your project and the Open Green Map website. Show Green Map examples; talk about why creating an Open Green Map of this area is important.
Presentation Notes:
Prototype the activities - composting or greenversation
refine the
*Keep in mind for it to be transferable without the Parsons student managing it.
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2.19.15
Mapping - keeping track of by-gone spaces
What's the importance of the dinner aspect?
Should the dinner be more homey?
A communal table? Dinner at the officespace of Wendy's office.
Maybe the dinner who really care about the future of GreenMaps (VIP/IP)
"Meet and Greet with Wendy"
Multi-layered party at the townhouse office
Dinner can be a closing event- maybe the event that everybody goes to to summarize the other days they attended
Groups: Pre-event, event, fundraising?
- ways of fundraising rather who gets to fund.
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In Class Notes
What Would Wendy Do? #WWWD
Low cost!
Easy Ideas
Funds from past participant
Hack-a-thons
Build a product or city collectively
Use of icons (badges, emoji, etc.)
Create the city
Expanding the age group
Icons 4 edu (maybe viral instagram)
Who are the guests?
Space
???
Time
Weekend in June (6+7)
Fundraising
Crowdfunding
Guests
Number
Types (cost, prof, etc.)
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Journal Entry
Wendy's Visit
From my portion of the Fundraising:
She seemed to enjoy the idea of a walking tour and mentioned that it has come up in one of her past ideas and during the prototyping stage of the development, found some minor issues that came up to be more negative and hard to work with rather than positive.
people not showing up resulting in a small group of 2 (not fun!)
weather! unpredictable and results in Problem 1
Liability issues but apparently they have 1-day insurance now.
I believe she might've wanted more of an event that would occur on the day of the event that allows a huge sum of money to be donated all at once. Also, she hopes to encourage for people to purchase the printed Maps cause they're a rarity.
Other than that, she seemed to really like the idea of icons as a visual language for social media and getting into the instagram platform. Maybe replacing hashtags with icons once and for all, mwahaha! Just kidding. But hey, she's a graphic designer at heart so I can almost imagine that's what she might've been thinking.
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Class Notes
"Pursue, pivot or poop!"
Publicity- Marketing, branding and interactivity
Slogan + messaging
visual identity/branding
social media + marketing
Workshop - engagement, collaboration and making
activities
materials
outcomes
Themed events, narrower focus
The agency of mapping or the power of mapping, really.
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