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The
Future
of
Writing




   DB     DM and DK   KB   NM   SP and CW
Microsoft Research,   Royal College of Art
Cambridge




                         DB        DM and DK   KB   NM   SP and CW
The following booklet includes
background research and
proposals from a two-month
project commissioned by Microsoft
Research Cambridge, UK, the
Microsoft Office Team and the
Design Interactions Department,
Royal College of Art, London,
UK, as part of the Future of
Writing project. The project was
launched with a one-day seminar
and workshop involving specially
invited guest speakers and the
participating designers.




     DB           DM and DK         KB   NM   SP and CW
Foreword                   In this project with Microsoft
                           Research, Cambridge, and the
Professor Anthony Dunne,   Microsoft Office Team, we explore
                           new ways design can make
Head of Programme,
                           technology-supported writing and
Design Interactions
                           authorship more meaningful and
                           relevant to our lives, both now,
                           and in the future, by thinking not
                           only about new applications but
                           implications as well.

                           The aim is to inspire, stimulate
                           discussion, and provoke debate in
                           order to help achieve a technological
                           future that reflects the complex,
                           troubled people we are, rather than
                           the easily satisfied consumers
                           and users we are supposed to be.




                                DB             DM and DK           KB   NM   SP and CW
Foreword                         It’s clear that tools for reading and
                                 writing are evolving exponentially,
Richard Banks, Alex Taylor and   with this year’s tweet replacing last
Tim Regan                        year’s blog post. The danger here is
                                 that technology becomes the primary
from Socio-Digital Systems,
                                 way through which authorship and
Microsoft Research Cambridge
                                 consumption are defined. In this
                                 project, undertaken with the Royal
                                 College of Art in London, a number
                                 of world-class designers speculate
                                 beyond technology and functionality
                                 on the possibilities for authorship.
                                 From the material to the symbolic,
                                 the philosophical to the political,
                                 this thought-provoking body of work
                                 invites new questions on the forms
                                 and processes of literary creation.




                                      DB             DM and DK           KB   NM   SP and CW
Guest speakers                     Richard Banks
For futher information on guest
speakers click on the hyperlinks   Jeremy Ettinghausen

                                   Tim Regan

                                   Alex Taylor

                                   Tim Etchells

                                   Justin McGuirk




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Designers                   David Benqué    page 11

To view projects click on
individual tabs below       Dash Macdonald
                            and Demitrios Kargotis
                            page 22



                            Kobe Barhad   page 41



                            Nicolas Myers   page 52



                            Sascha Pohflepp
                            Chris Woebken page 63




                                DB        DM and DK   KB   NM   SP and CW
David Benqué                         Nicolas Myers
The Infinite Adventure Machine       Punctu.at is a tool to create,
(TIAM) is a proposal for a           combine and share new punctuation
computer program that generates      marks and symbols. Using existing
fairy tale plots.                    typographic shapes, this project
                                     explores how personal symbols can
Dash Macdonald                       enrich and modify the meaning of
and Demitrios Kargotis               a text.
A hyper-realistic workshop
                                     Sascha Pohflepp
 training script that uses iconic
                                     Chris Woebken
 stories and films as models to
 explore the Conservative Party’s    The future of writing will be the
 contemporary grand narrative of     future of writing down everything,
‘The Big Society’.                   by machinic ghost-writers who
                                     have long been compiling our auto-
Kobe Barhad                          autobiographies. It will also be the
“Thoughts you may have” is           future of reading those narratives
 research that explores the          of data, about our past, present and
 existence of our inner dialogues.   future.
 Using text prediction tools,
 a space for private thoughts
 are produced in a virtual social
 network.


                                          DB            DM and DK           KB   NM   SP and CW
Credits   Project mentor
          Onkar Kular

          Graphic design and
          project documentation
          Kellenberger–White




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DB   DM and DK   KB   NM   SP and CW
11
David Benqué
The Infinite
Adventure Machine




     DB    DM and DK   KB   NM   SP and CW
David Benqué

www.davidbenque.com

Recent press

We Make Money Not Art
Creative Applications
boingboing
Cool Hunting
Co. Design




                        Illustration based on a Propp input sequence




                          DB            DM and DK             KB       NM   SP and CW
This is the thinking that    2) ‘The Morphology of
led to the project...        the Folktale’ by Vladimir
                             Propp. This book raises
I came across a paper by     the idea of story DNA,                “Story is to human beings what the
Joseph Gold, who argues      which could be interesting
storytelling and narrative   to look at in relation to            pearl is to osyters, active adaptation.”
are a biologically evolved   computer science.                                         Joseph Gold
functions of humans
and actually have an         Propp split the Russian
evolutionary purpose         fairy tale into 31 basic
in keeping us alive and      functions within which any
evolving us as a species.    tale of the specific subset
                             that he was studying
Two books that helped me     fitted.
develop my ideas...
                             The example (below) of
1) ‘The Uses of              function 8a shows each
Enchantment’ by Bruno        function as an action
Bettelheim. It’s about       or an event. Each one
fairy tales, and looks at    has up to 15 possible
their function — their       manifestations. Scientists
significance for child       have tried to use Propp’s
development and the          inspired theories to create
transition to adulthood.     generators.


                                                           Thursday, 30 June 2011




                                                                   DB               DM and DK        KB      NM   SP and CW
One of the problems I ran       generate anything             Each character has a goal,   hungry or not thirsty, or
into is that the formula        because you have to fill in   such as to like hunger or    something like that.
selects randomly pre-           all the blanks.               thirst, or to become not
written chunks of text
for a function, jams it all     I came across a piece of
together and spits out a        work by James Meehan
tale that is less interesting   called ‘Tale Spin’, part of
than the initial formula.       his dissertation written in
                                1976, and this started to
Generating compelling           be a bit more interesting
narratives is a killer — it     because he was exposing
is like the frontier of         the kind of processes
computer science.               and relationships that he
I widened my scope of           programmed to get to the
research and ran into           outcome.
a whole score of online
movie plot generators,
which don’t actually




‘Function 8a’ based on Vladimir Propp                         Online movie plot generator ‘Plot-O-Matic’




                                                                DB             DM and DK              KB               NM   SP and CW
Script produced using ‘Plot-O-Matic’                      him where some honey
                                                          was. Irving agreed. But
                                                          Joe didn’t know where
                                                          any worms were, so he
                                                          asked Irving, who refused
                                                          to say. So Joe offered to
                                                          bring him a worm if he’d
                                                          tell him where any worms
                                                          were. Irving agreed. But
                                                          Joe didn’t know where any
                                                          worms were... and so on.




First example:              the cheese. The fox
Once upon a time there      walked over to the crow.
was a dishonest fox and     The end.
a vain crow. One day
the crow was sitting        Second example:
in his tree, holding a      Joe the bear was hungry.
piece of cheese in his      He asked Irving the bird
mouth. He noticed that      where some honey was.
he was holding the piece    Irving refused to tell him,
of cheese. He became        so Joe offered to bring
hungry, and swallowed       him a worm if he’d tell       Illustration based on ‘Tale Spin’




                                                            DB              DM and DK         KB   NM   SP and CW
The Infinite Adventure Machine (TIAM)
Project website, click here
                              is a proposal for a computer program that
                              generates fairy tale plots.

                              While fully automatic story generation remains
                              an unsolved problem for computer science, this
                              project explores the links between imagination
                              and computation. Tales and myths, the
                              core narratives of human culture, have been
                              transmitted for generations through various
                              technologies and media.

                              What new forms might they take through digital
                              formats and Artificial Intelligence?

                              Based on the work of Vladimir Propp,
                              who reduced the structure of Russian folktales
                              to 31 basic functions, TIAM aims to question
                              the limitations and implications of attempts at
                              programming language and narrative.

                              Because the program is unable to deliver
                              a finished story, rather only a crude synopsis
                              and illustrations, users have to improvise, filling
                              the gaps with their imaginations and making up
                              for the technology’s shortcomings.




                                   DB              DM and DK                KB      NM   SP and CW
The Infinite Adventure Machine (TIAM)
Project website, click here
                              is a proposal for a computer program that
                              generates fairy tale plots.

                              While fully automatic story generation remains
                              an unsolved problem for computer science, this
                              project explores the links between imagination
                              and computation. Tales and myths; the
                              core narratives of human culture, have been
                              transmitted for generations through various
                              technologies and media.
                              What new forms might they take through digital
                              formats and Artificial Intelligence?

                              Based on the work of Vladimir Propp,
                              who reduced the structure of russian folk-tales
                              to 31 basic functions, TIAM aims to question
                              the limitations and implications of attempts at
                              programming language and narrative.
                              Because the program is unable to deliver
                              a finished story, rather only a crude synopsis
                              and illustrations, users have to improvise, filling
                              the gaps with their imagination and making up
                              for the technology’s shortcomings.




                                   DB              DM and DK                KB      NM   SP and CW
The Infinite Adventure Machine (TIAM)
Project website, click here
                              is a proposal for a computer program that
                              generates fairy tale plots.

                              While fully automatic story generation remains
                              an unsolved problem for computer science, this
                              project explores the links between imagination
                              and computation. Tales and myths; the
                              core narratives of human culture, have been
                              transmitted for generations through various
                              technologies and media.
                              What new forms might they take through digital
                              formats and Artificial Intelligence?

                              Based on the work of Vladimir Propp,
                              who reduced the structure of russian folk-tales
                              to 31 basic functions, TIAM aims to question
                              the limitations and implications of attempts at
                              programming language and narrative.
                              Because the program is unable to deliver
                              a finished story, rather only a crude synopsis
                              and illustrations, users have to improvise, filling
                              the gaps with their imagination and making up
                              for the technology’s shortcomings.




                                   DB              DM and DK                KB      NM   SP and CW
The Infinite Adventure Machine (TIAM)
Project website, click here
                              is a proposal for a computer program that
                              generates fairy tale plots.

                              While fully automatic story generation remains
                              an unsolved problem for computer science, this
                              project explores the links between imagination
                              and computation. Tales and myths; the
                              core narratives of human culture, have been
                              transmitted for generations through various
                              technologies and media.
                              What new forms might they take through digital
                              formats and Artificial Intelligence?

                              Based on the work of Vladimir Propp,
                              who reduced the structure of russian folk-tales
                              to 31 basic functions, TIAM aims to question
                              the limitations and implications of attempts at
                              programming language and narrative.
                              Because the program is unable to deliver
                              a finished story, rather only a crude synopsis
                              and illustrations, users have to improvise, filling
                              the gaps with their imagination and making up
                              for the technology’s shortcomings.




                                   DB              DM and DK                KB      NM   SP and CW
The Infinite Adventure Machine (TIAM)
Project website, click here
                              is a proposal for a computer program that
                              generates fairy tale plots.

                              While fully automatic story generation remains
                              an unsolved problem for computer science, this
                              project explores the links between imagination
                              and computation. Tales and myths, the
                              core narratives of human culture, have been
                              transmitted for generations through various
                              technologies and media.

                              What new forms might they take through digital
                              formats and Artificial Intelligence?

                              Based on the work of Vladimir Propp,
                              who reduced the structure of Russian folktales
                              to 31 basic functions, TIAM aims to question
                              the limitations and implications of attempts at
                              programming language and narrative.
                              Because the program is unable to deliver
                              a finished story, rather only a crude synopsis
                              and illustrations, users have to improvise, filling
                              the gaps with their imaginations and making up
                              for the technology’s shortcomings.




                                   DB              DM and DK                KB      NM   SP and CW
DB   DM and DK   KB   NM   SP and CW
Let's start with our first case study.

 [Slide 1]

 Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
 1937

 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals
 with adult and current issues for the Big Society,
 specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and
 disadvantaged.

 [Slide 2]

 Snow White is essentially a young person who has
 become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She
22
 finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and
 scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother,
Dash Macdonald death of her father.
 a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over
 the kingdom after the
and Demitrios
 [Slide 3]
Kargotis
 Homelessness is an important issue in our current
Happily Ever After net, ultimately being let
 society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand
 people slip through the
in the Big Society we are to meet the Big
 down by the system. If
 Society's intention of being big enough to include
 even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are
 innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's
 reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs
 demonstrates an interesting approach.

 [Slide 4]

 Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White
 discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding
 no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she
 decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents
 may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs
 arrive home, they are astonished to discover the
 house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying



    DB          DM and DK          KB              NM      SP and CW
Let's start with our first case study.

                                           [Slide 1]

                                           Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
                                           1937

                                           Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals
                                           with adult and current issues for the Big Society,
                                           specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and
                                           disadvantaged.

                                           [Slide 2]

                                           Snow White is essentially a young person who has
                                           become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She
Dash Macdonald                             finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and
and Demitrios Kargotis                     scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother,
                                           a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over
www.dashndem.com                           the kingdom after the death of her father.

                                           [Slide 3]
This is the thinking that led to
the project...                             Homelessness is an important issue in our current
                                           society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand
The following text and images have         people slip through the net, ultimately being let
been re-arranged to form a theatre         down by the system. If we are to meet the Big
script.
                                           Society's intention of being big enough to include
                                           even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are
                                           innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's
                                           reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs
                                           demonstrates an interesting approach.

                                           [Slide 4]

                                           Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White
                                           discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding
                                           no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she
                                           decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents
                        Image opposite,    may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs
                    book: Paul Corrigan,
                                           arrive home, they are astonished to discover the
                                           house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying
           ‘Shakespeare on Management’



                                             DB           DM and DK          KB              NM      SP and CW
Let's start with our first case study.

                                     [Slide 1]

                                     Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
                                     1937

                                     Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals
                                     with adult and current issues for the Big Society,
                                     specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and
                                     disadvantaged.

                                     [Slide 2]

                                     Snow White is essentially a young person who has
                                     become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She
                                                INTRODUCTION
                                     finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and
                                     scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother,
                                     a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over
                                   Dash arranges his presentation notes her father.
                                     the kingdom after the death of
                                   and laptop on a small side table. He
                                   opens his 3]
                                     [Slide keynote presentation
                                   and readies himself to introduce his
                                   project. Before he proceeds with
                                     Homelessness is an important issue in our current
                                     society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand
                                   his presentation, the leader of the
                                     people slip through the net, ultimately being let
                                   Microsoft team introduces several new meet the Big
                                     down by the system. If we are to
                                   guests to theintention of being big enough to include
                                     Society's rest of the audience.
                                     even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are
                                                   ACT ONE
                                     innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's
                                     reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs
                                     demonstrates an interesting approach.
                                   DASH:
                                   (Decisively) We have decided to focus
                                     [Slide 4]
                                   on reformatting text and how narrative
                                   content is taken from one context the forest, Snow White
                                     Going back to the story, in and
                                   represented within a different format she enters, and finding
                                     discovers a tiny cottage, which
                                     no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she
                                   — and the social implications of that…
                                     decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents
                                   (Pauses) her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs
                                     may let
                                     arrive home, they are astonished to discover the
                                     house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying
Above: the Big Society Manifesto



                                       DB            DM and DK            KB              NM       SP and CW
Let's start with our first case study.

                                            [Slide 1]

                                            Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
                                            1937

                                            Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals
                                            with adult and current issues for the Big Society,
                                            specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and
                                            disadvantaged.

                                            [Slide 2]

                                            Snow White is essentially a young person who has
                                            become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She
This got us thinking about policy writing   finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and
and we were looking at the Big Society      scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother,
                                            a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over
document.                                   the kingdom after the death of her father.

(Pauses and takes a deep breath)            [Slide 3]
We were wondering how many people
actually go online and download this        Homelessness is an important issue in our current
                                            society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand
document? How could it hijack other
                                            people slip through the net, ultimately being let
narrative formats? What if certain          down by the system. If we are to meet the Big
values within the Big Society were          Society's intention of being big enough to include
written up as a script from Eastenders?     even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are
                                            innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's
(Image opposite above: Eastenders)          reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs
                                            demonstrates an interesting approach.
(Image opposite below: Emmerdale)
                                            [Slide 4]
(Reads from presentation)
‘On 27 May 1997 Emmerdale attracted         Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White
 over 13 million viewers when Frank Tate    discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding
                                            no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she
 died of a heart attack after his wife,
                                            decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents
 Kim Tate, returned after faking her own    may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs
 death months before’.                      arrive home, they are astonished to discover the
                                            house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying



                                              DB           DM and DK          KB              NM      SP and CW
Let's start with our first case study.

                                          [Slide 1]

                                          Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
                                          1937

                                          Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals
                                          with adult and current issues for the Big Society,
                                          specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and
                                          disadvantaged.

                                          [Slide 2]

                                          Snow White is essentially a young person who has
                                          become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She
We looked at the amount of people that    finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and
are going to see something like this,     scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother,
                                          a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over
and in terms of politics, how something   the kingdom after the death of her father.
could be presented and mediated by
hijacking much more public and popular    [Slide 3]
cultured narratives.
                                          Homelessness is an important issue in our current
                                          society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand
Looking at the rhetoric in the Big
                                          people slip through the net, ultimately being let
Society document, the way it is written   down by the system. If we are to meet the Big
in a rhythmical way, made us think        Society's intention of being big enough to include
of using a lyric generator to produce     even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are
a song out of key lines from the          innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's
document.                                 reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs
                                          demonstrates an interesting approach.

(Image opposite above: phantom lyrics)    [Slide 4]
(Image opposite below: Project
Umubano)                                  Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White
                                          discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding
                                          no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she
It would fit the document’s nature
                                          decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents
of focusing on the emotive side of        may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs
community involvement, volunteering,      arrive home, they are astonished to discover the
and connecting, rather than the reality   house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying



                                            DB           DM and DK          KB              NM      SP and CW
Let's start with our first case study.

                                            [Slide 1]

                                            Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
                                            1937

                                            Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals
                                            with adult and current issues for the Big Society,
                                            specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and
                                            disadvantaged.

                                            [Slide 2]

                                            Snow White is essentially a young person who has
                                            become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She
of how things are going to be funded        finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and
and work when there is less money.          scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother,
                                            a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over
                                            the kingdom after the death of her father.
But, again, how we would address
this would be not from a political          [Slide 3]
perspective but looking at the
construction behind different ways that     Homelessness is an important issue in our current
                                            society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand
it could be mediated or reinterpreted as.
                                            people slip through the net, ultimately being let
                                            down by the system. If we are to meet the Big
               ACT TWO                      Society's intention of being big enough to include
                                            even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are
We also got interested in the corporate     innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's
appropriation and exploitation of           reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs
                                            demonstrates an interesting approach.
symbolism within narrative, in the
format of corporate role-play.              [Slide 4]

(Image opposite above:                      Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White
‘Avant-Garde Teambuilding’)                 discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding
(Image opposite below:
                                            no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she
                                            decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents
‘Forum Theatre’)                            may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs
                                            arrive home, they are astonished to discover the
                                            house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying



                                              DB           DM and DK          KB              NM      SP and CW
Let's start with our first case study.

                                              [Slide 1]

                                              Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
                                              1937

                                              Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals
                                              with adult and current issues for the Big Society,
                                              specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and
                                              disadvantaged.

                                              [Slide 2]

                                               Snow White is essentially a young person who has
                                               become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She
One of the ideas we had was to re-           So these herselfdifferent directions
                                               finds are the lost in the forest, tired, hungry and
dramatise a classic play such as ‘Romeo      that we were looking at, and we escapes from her stepmother,
                                               scared after she narrowly
                                                                              wanted
                                               a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over
and Juliet’ in the format of corporate       tothe kingdom after the death of her father.
                                                use today as an opportunity to
role-play. How could it all be written and   gauge interest within these directions
restructured in relation to a role-play      and hear your thoughts on it.
                                               [Slide 3]
scenario? In terms of ‘Romeo and Juliet’
it could be a conflict negotiation for                      END
                                              Homelessness is an important issue in our current
                                              society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand
example…
                                              people slip through the net, ultimately being let
                                              down by the system. If we are to meet the Big
This brought us into looking at Forum         Society's intention of being big enough to include
Theatre, which was initially developed        even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are
to help people who were being                 innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's
oppressed at work to help them learn          reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs
                                              demonstrates an interesting approach.
how to communicate and overthrow
the repressive system they were in…           [Slide 4]
(cough) …It’s now widely used within
corporate training for negotiation skills     Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White
and to treat communication failure:           discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding
                                              no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she
a specific scenario is played out by a
                                              decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents
group of actors, and then the audience        may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs
intervenes and rescripts it into a more       arrive home, they are astonished to discover the
positive outcome.                             house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying



                                                 DB            DM and DK            KB               NM     SP and CW
Let's start with our first case study.

 [Slide 1]

 Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
 1937

 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals
 with adult and current issues for the Big Society,
 specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and
 disadvantaged.

 [Slide 2]

   Snow White is essentially a young person who has
   become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She
‘Happily Ever Afterlost in the forest, tired, hungry and
   finds herself in the Big Society’
   scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother,
‘Happily Ever After in the Big Society’ taken over
   a vain and wicked Queen who has
is the kingdom after the death of her father.
   a hyper-realistic workshop training
script that uses fictional case studies
  [Slide 3]
to model and explore goals and
objectives identified in the 2010
  Homelessness is an important issue in our current
ConservativeAt any one Expanding on fifty-six thousand
  society. manifesto. time, some
the misappropriation and exploitation
  people slip through the net, ultimately being let
ofdown by the system. If we are to meet the Big
   fiction in management training, the
project questions whether it is possible
  Society's intention of being big enough to include
  even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are
toinnovativeideashow we address this issue. Snow White's
   transpose in from iconic stories
and films into real-world applications,
  reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs
and the socio-political implications of
  demonstrates an interesting approach.
reworking fictional models to inform
the contemporary grand narrative of
  [Slide 4]
‘The Big Society’.
  Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White
  discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding
  no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she
  decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents
  may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs
  arrive home, they are astonished to discover the
  house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying



    DB           DM and DK           KB              NM     SP and CW
Let's start with our first case study.

                                          [Slide 1]

                                          Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
                                          1937

                                          Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals
                                          with adult and current issues for the Big Society,
                                          specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and
                                          disadvantaged.

                                          [Slide 2]

                                          Snow White is essentially a young person who has
                                          become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She
The following pages are an extract from   finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and
a workshop document. The following        scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother,
                                          a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over
PowerPoint presentation is seen as the    the kingdom after the death of her father.
workshop notes are read out.
                                          [Slide 3]
The full workshop document can be
downloaded, here                          Homelessness is an important issue in our current
                                          society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand
                                          people slip through the net, ultimately being let
                                          down by the system. If we are to meet the Big
                                          Society's intention of being big enough to include
                                          even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are
                                          innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's
                                          reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs
                                          demonstrates an interesting approach.

                                          [Slide 4]

                                          Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White
                                          discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding
                                          no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she
                                          decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents
                                          may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs
                                          arrive home, they are astonished to discover the
                                          house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying



                                            DB           DM and DK          KB              NM      SP and CW
Let's start with our first case study.

                                                                                  [Slide 1]

                                                                                  Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
                                                                                  1937

                                                                                  Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals
                                                                                  with adult and current issues for the Big Society,
                                                                                  specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and
                                                                                  disadvantaged.

                                                                                  [Slide 2]

                                                                                  Snow White is essentially a young person who has
                                                                                  become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She
                                                  Project website:
  Case Study 1
                                                                                  finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and
                                                                                  scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother,
                                                  www.dashndem.com                a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over
                                                                                  the kingdom after the death of her father.
  Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937
                                                                                  [Slide 3]

                                                                                  Homelessness is an important issue in our current
                                                                                  society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand
                                                                                  people slip through the net, ultimately being let
                                                                                  down by the system. If we are to meet the Big
                                                                                  Society's intention of being big enough to include
                              Socal inclusion for the homless and disadvantaged
                                                                                  even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are
    Themes and Issues                                                             innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's
                                     Cultivating a truly reciprocal society       reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs
                                                                                  demonstrates an interesting approach.

                                                                                  [Slide 4]

                                                                                  Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White
                                                                                  discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding
     We know we have a shared responsibility, that we’re all in this together.    no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she
                                                                                  decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents
  David Cameron
                                                                                  may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs
                                                                                  arrive home, they are astonished to discover the
                                                                                  house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying
Slide 1



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Let's start with our first case study.

                                                                         [Slide 1]

                                                                         Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
                                                                         1937

                                                                         Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals
                                                                         with adult and current issues for the Big Society,
                                                                         specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and
                                                                         disadvantaged.

                                                                         [Slide 2]

                                                                         Snow White is essentially a young person who has
                                                                         become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She
          Snow White has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family
                                          Project website:               finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and
                                                                         scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother,
                                           www.dashndem.com              a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over
                                                                         the kingdom after the death of her father.

                                                                         [Slide 3]

                                                                         Homelessness is an important issue in our current
                                                                         society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand
                                                                         people slip through the net, ultimately being let
                                                                         down by the system. If we are to meet the Big
                                                                         Society's intention of being big enough to include
                                                                         even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are
                                                                         innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's
                                                                         reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs
                                                                         demonstrates an interesting approach.

                                                                         [Slide 4]

                                                                         Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White
                                                                         discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding
                                                                         no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937                      decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents
                                                                         may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs
                                                                         arrive home, they are astonished to discover the
                                                                         house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying
Slide 2



                                                                           DB           DM and DK          KB              NM      SP and CW
Let's start with our first case study.

                                                                        [Slide 1]

                                                                        Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
                                                                        1937

                                                                        Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals
                                                                        with adult and current issues for the Big Society,
                                                                        specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and
                                                                        disadvantaged.

                                                                        [Slide 2]

                                                                        Snow White is essentially a young person who has
                                                                        become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She
             At any one time, some 56,000 people slip through the net
                                            Project website:            finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and
                                                                        scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother,
                                             www.dashndem.com           a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over
                                                                        the kingdom after the death of her father.

                                                                        [Slide 3]

                                                                        Homelessness is an important issue in our current
                                                                        society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand
                                                                        people slip through the net, ultimately being let
                                                                        down by the system. If we are to meet the Big
                                                                        Society's intention of being big enough to include
                                                                        even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are
                                                                        innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's
                                                                        reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs
                                                                        demonstrates an interesting approach.

                                                                        [Slide 4]

                                                                        Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White
                                                                        discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding
                                                                        no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she
                                                                        decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937
                                                                        may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs
                                                                        arrive home, they are astonished to discover the
                                                                        house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying
Slide 3



                                                                          DB           DM and DK          KB              NM      SP and CW
Let's start with our first case study.

                                                               [Slide 1]

                                                               Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
                                                               1937

                                                               Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals
                                                               with adult and current issues for the Big Society,
                                                               specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and
                                                               disadvantaged.

                                                               [Slide 2]

                                                               Snow White is essentially a young person who has
                                                               become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She
                              Back to the story...
                                            Project website:   finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and
                                                               scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother,
                                          www.dashndem.com     a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over
                                                               the kingdom after the death of her father.

                                                               [Slide 3]

                                                               Homelessness is an important issue in our current
                                                               society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand
                                                               people slip through the net, ultimately being let
                                                               down by the system. If we are to meet the Big
                                                               Society's intention of being big enough to include
                                                               even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are
                                                               innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's
                                                               reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs
                                                               demonstrates an interesting approach.

                                                               [Slide 4]

                                                               Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White
                                                               discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding
                                                               no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937            decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents
                                                               may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs
                                                               arrive home, they are astonished to discover the
                                                               house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying
Slide 4



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asleep across their beds, she is asked to leave by
                                                                                             Grumpy; however, she explains her dilemma and pleads
                                                                                             to stay, offering in return to 'keep house', to wash,
                                                                                             sew, sweep and cook for them. Despite the risk the
                                                                                             Dwarfs face from the evil Queen and her black magic,
                                                                                             they decide to let her stay.

                                                                                             I will now play the scene where the Seven Dwarfs
                                                                                             arrive home while Snow White is sleeping upstairs:
                                                                                             [Note for trainer: play DVD from 00:28:00 - 00:38:00]

                                                                                             [Slide 5]

                                                                                             There are three key points that I would like you
                                                                                             to consider:
                                                                                             •Snow White took initiative by cleaning the house
                                   Points to Consider website:
                                                Project                                      before the Seven Dwarfs returned home
                                                                                             •Snow White identified that her skills could help the
                                                  www.dashndem.com                           Seven Dwarfs and used this to come to a mutually
                                                                                             beneficial agreement
                                                                                             •Key to the successful outcome of this scenario, was
                                                                                             the Seven Dwarfs, decision to show trust and
                                                                                             willingness to reach out and help a disadvantaged
   Snow White took initiative by cleaning the house before the Seven Dwarfs returned home    person.

   Snow White identified that her skills could help the Seven Dwarfs and used this to come   [Slide 6]
   to a mutually beneficial agreement.
                                                                                             Exercise One Role-Play: Negotiating a Reciprocal
   Key to the successful outcome of this scenario was the Seven Dwarfs decision, to show     Relationship
   trust and willingness to reach out and help a disadvantaged person
                                                                                             For this first exercise, we are going to stage a
                                                                                             role-play based on the part of the scene we have just
                                                                                             watched, where Snow White is trying to convince the
                                                                                             Seven Dwarfs to let her stay.

                                                                                             Firstly, we need to consider the factors that
                                                                                             influence the Seven Dwarfs’ decision:

Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937                                          [Slide 7]



Slide 5



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asleep across their beds, she is asked to leave by
                                                                                                                  Grumpy; however, she explains her dilemma and pleads
                                                                                                                  to stay, offering in return to 'keep house', to wash,
                                                                                                                  sew, sweep and cook for them. Despite the risk the
                                                                                                                  Dwarfs face from the evil Queen and her black magic,
                                                                                                                  they decide to let her stay.

                                                                                                                  I will now play the scene where the Seven Dwarfs
                                                                                                                  arrive home while Snow White is sleeping upstairs:
                                                                                                                  [Note for trainer: play DVD from 00:28:00 - 00:38:00]

                                                                                                                  [Slide 5]

                                                                                                                  There are three key points that I would like you
                                                                                                                  to consider:
                                                                                                                  •Snow White took initiative by cleaning the house
                       Role-Play: Negotiating a Reciprocal website:
                                                  Project Relationship                                            before the Seven Dwarfs returned home
                                                                                                                  •Snow White identified that her skills could help the
                    Snow White is trying to convince www.dashndem.com stay
                                                     the Seven Dwarfs to let                                      Seven Dwarfs and used this to come to a mutually
                                                                                                                  beneficial agreement
                                                                                                                  •Key to the successful outcome of this scenario, was
                                                                                                                  the Seven Dwarfs, decision to show trust and
              Positive                            Negative                        Ethical Dilemma                 willingness to reach out and help a disadvantaged
                                                                                                                  person.
  Snow White has already impressed
  with her cooking and cleaning, and   Danger from vengeance of the evil
                                                                                                                  [Slide 6]
  offers to continue to ‘keep house’   Queen and her black magic
  by washing, sewing, sweeping and                                         If the Seven Dwarfs refuse to allow
  cooking for them
                                                                                                                  Exercise One Role-Play: Negotiating a Reciprocal
                                                                           Snow White to stay, she would be
                                                                           all alone in the forest and could be
                                                                                                                  Relationship
  She can cook gooseberry pie, the                                         killed by the evil Queen
  Dwarfs, favourite                                                                                               For this first exercise, we are going to stage a
                                          Snow White is a stranger who
                                                                                                                  role-play based on the part of the scene we have just
                                          broke into their home
  Snow White is beautiful and                                                                                     watched, where Snow White is trying to convince the
  charming                                                                                                        Seven Dwarfs to let her stay.

                                                                                                                  Firstly, we need to consider the factors that
                                                                                                                  influence the Seven Dwarfs’ decision:

Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937                                                               [Slide 7]



Slide 6



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asleep across their beds, she is asked to leave by
                                                                                                       Grumpy; however, she explains her dilemma and pleads
                                                                                                       to stay, offering in return to 'keep house', to wash,
                                                                                                       sew, sweep and cook for them. Despite the risk the
                                                                                                       Dwarfs face from the evil Queen and her black magic,
                                                                                                       they decide to let her stay.

                                                                                                       I will now play the scene where the Seven Dwarfs
                                                                                                       arrive home while Snow White is sleeping upstairs:
                                                                                                       [Note for trainer: play DVD from 00:28:00 - 00:38:00]

                                                                                                       [Slide 5]

                                                                                                       There are three key points that I would like you
                                                                                                       to consider:
                                                                                                       •Snow White took initiative by cleaning the house
                                         Character Traits
                                                    Project website:                                   before the Seven Dwarfs returned home
                                                                                                       •Snow White identified that her skills could help the
                                                         www.dashndem.com                              Seven Dwarfs and used this to come to a mutually
                                                                                                       beneficial agreement
            Grumpy                          Snow White                             Doc                 •Key to the successful outcome of this scenario, was
                                                                                                       the Seven Dwarfs, decision to show trust and
                                                                                                       willingness to reach out and help a disadvantaged
                                                                                                       person.

                                                                                                       [Slide 6]

                                                                                                       Exercise One Role-Play: Negotiating a Reciprocal
                                                                                                       Relationship

                                                                                                       For this first exercise, we are going to stage a
                                                                                                       role-play based on the part of the scene we have just
                                                                                                       watched, where Snow White is trying to convince the
  Intelligent, sceptical, cynical,   Kind, polite, eager to please,    Authoritative, compassionate,   Seven Dwarfs to let her stay.
        clashes with Doc                       innocent               bumbling, loves gooseberry pie
                                                                                                       Firstly, we need to consider the factors that
                                                                                                       influence the Seven Dwarfs’ decision:

                                                                                                       [Slide 7]
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937


Slide 7



                                                                                                         DB          DM and DK           KB               NM   SP and CW
asleep across their beds, she is asked to leave by
                                                                                     Grumpy; however, she explains her dilemma and pleads
                                                                                     to stay, offering in return to 'keep house', to wash,
                                                                                     sew, sweep and cook for them. Despite the risk the
                                                                                     Dwarfs face from the evil Queen and her black magic,
                                                                                     they decide to let her stay.

                                                                                     I will now play the scene where the Seven Dwarfs
                                                                                     arrive home while Snow White is sleeping upstairs:
                                                                                     [Note for trainer: play DVD from 00:28:00 - 00:38:00]

                                                                                     [Slide 5]

                                                                                     There are three key points that I would like you
                                                                                     to consider:
                                                                                     •Snow White took initiative by cleaning the house
                 For this improvisational scenarioProject website:
                                                  we need three volunteers           before the Seven Dwarfs returned home
                                                                                     •Snow White identified that her skills could help the
                                                 www.dashndem.com                    Seven Dwarfs and used this to come to a mutually
                                                                                     beneficial agreement
                                                                                     •Key to the successful outcome of this scenario, was
                                                                                     the Seven Dwarfs, decision to show trust and
                                                                                     willingness to reach out and help a disadvantaged
                                                                                     person.

                                                                                     [Slide 6]

                                                                                     Exercise One Role-Play: Negotiating a Reciprocal
                                                                                     Relationship

                                                                                     For this first exercise, we are going to stage a
                                                                                     role-play based on the part of the scene we have just
      GRUMPY: “We know who we are, ask her who she is and what she is doing here?”
                                                                                     watched, where Snow White is trying to convince the
      DOC: ...                                                                       Seven Dwarfs to let her stay.

      SNOW WHITE: ...                                                                Firstly, we need to consider the factors that
                                                                                     influence the Seven Dwarfs’ decision:

Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937                                  [Slide 7]



Slide 8



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Begin with Snow White introducing her scheme.

                                                                             Great! We’ve now seen two different responses to how
                                                                             this concept might apply to a community. How did you
                                                                             feel this role-play went and how could Snow White
                                                                             improve her proposal and pitch? Was Grumpy’s argument
                                                                             strong enough and how did Doc get on board?

                                                                             [Note for trainer: You can repeat this several times
                                                                             with the group]

                                                                             [Slide 9]

                                                                             Exercise two
                                                                             A new government website links volunteers to people
                                                                             willing to offer a vacant room in exchange for
                                  Exercise 2
                                           Project website:                  services provided to them and their wider community.
                                                                             Write an advert stipulating your requirements in
                                          www.dashndem.com                   exchange for:

                                      A spacious, bright room available in   “A spacious, bright room available in Edgbaston, two
                                      Edgbaston, situated two minutes from   minutes from bus stop, worth £85 per week, bills
                                      bus stop, worth £85 per week, bills    included.”
                                      included.
                                                                             In return, I am looking for ...”
                                      In return I am looking for ...
                                                                             [Example for trainer: “A motivated individual trying
                                                                             to improve his/her situation. Willing to volunteer 8
                                                                             hours per week for community projects and do a
                                                                             minimum of three hours of house work per week in my
                                                                             home.” ]

                                                                             [Note for trainer: Allow 5 minutes for the group to
                                                                             write their ads]

                                                                             Now, I would like everyone to read out their ads so
                                                                             that we can discuss them.
                                                                             Grumpy represent the council members responsible for
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937                          making the decision.

                                                                             Begin with Snow White introducing her scheme.
Slide 9



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Slide 9



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41
Koby Barhad
How do I know what
I think until I see
what I say?




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Writing thinking writings
Project website, www.thoughtsyoumayhave.com

                                              This research first explores the use of a
                                              writing application, designed to represent
                                              the structure and behaviour of humans,
                                              private thinking space. In a series of three
                                              experiments (seven hours of inner dialogue,
                                              a couple communicating through inner
                                              dialogues, and a religious confession
                                              in which a reverend shares his private
                                              space with a confessor) I discovered the
                                              potential of these representations to
                                              act as a self-and social exploration tool.
                                              Looking at writing prediction technologies,
                                              I develop them, and a social space where
                                              people manage their externalised thinking
                                              streams, developing it, share and influence
                                              others streams of thoughts. Cogitos is a
                                              virtual existence of the thinking self that
                                              continues to evolve even after we have
                                              long disappeared from this world.




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The following pages are taken
from Koby’s project website,
www.thoughtsyoumayhave.com




                                “How do I know what I think until
                                I see what I say?”
                                (E.M. Forster)

                                “Thoughts you may have” is research that looks into the
                                existence and possibility of regenerating what Augustine of
                                Hippo described as “Soliloquium” — our Inner Dialogue.

                                It is a project commissioned by Microsoft Research,
                                Cambridge, in which we were asked to “experiment with new
                                tools for authoring”... “to redefine the relations between
                                public and private authorship”. My aim was to reintroduce
                                writing as a form of thinking, and as the research advanced
                                it became clear that thinking and writing are not only the
                                “twins of mental life”, they can actually produce a possible
                                form of it.



                                Instillation of the ‘word processor’ framework



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Word Processor
The new framework is as addictive as surfing the web.
It allows users the opportunity to consciously read
their own thoughts. The data is arranged in the same
order as in our minds, thus making the effect very
powerful. It’s very hard to stop writing as soon as you
are drawn into the screen. One test subject wrote:

“When the screen went blank and I could not write, I
realised how involved with this I had become. I did not
want to stop and was very frustrated.”




                                                          Using the ‘word processor’ framework



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Word Processor Codes
Daydreaming — Moments that users lost their
conscious view. The program was set to produce
a sign if nothing was typed for 30 seconds.
                                                    /       daydreaming

Speaking — Moments the subjects had to speak with
others in the physical world.

Singing and Humming — Moments users realised
                                                    {}        singing /humming
they where humming to themselves.



                                                    []        speaking with others




                                                    Image: symbols used for categorising thoughts



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Experiment 1: INNER DIALOGUE
The first step was to put the new word processor to
the test, and find if this form of writing is different
from what we know.

In a seven-hour session of inner dialogue, I tested
different writing conditions: three hours of being in
private space, two hours of sharing the space with
another person, and two hours of being in public
space.

The experiment looked at several questions:

1) What are the relations between the words being
typed and to our conscious thread of thoughts?

2) Does the normal balance between consciousness
and unconsciousness change?

3) What will be the new definition of our private
space? Public space?

4) What sort of extreme behaviours will it trigger?

5) How far are we willing to go just to have
representations of our thinking selves?




                                                          Laptop carrier



                                                               DB          DM and DK   KB   NM   SP and CW
Experiment 1: INNER DIALOGUE
The first step was to put the new word processor to
the test, and find if this form of writing is different
from what we know.

In a seven-hour session of inner dialogue, I tested
different writing conditions: three hours of being in
private space, two hours of sharing the space with
another person, and two hours of being in public
space.

The experiment looked at several questions:

1) What are the relations between the words being
typed and to our conscious thread of thoughts?

2) Does the normal balance between consciousness
and unconsciousness change?

3) What will be the new definition of our private
space? Public space?

4) What sort of extreme behaviours will it trigger?       ye what the f*** are you looking at
                                                          f******!
5) How far are we willing to go just to have
representations of our thinking selves?                   []
                                                          /
                                                          hate photo shooting
                                                          shut up




                                                          Seven-hours of writing — South Kensington



                                                               DB               DM and DK         KB   NM   SP and CW
Experiment 1: INNER DIALOGUE
The first step was to put the new word processor to
the test, and find if this form of writing is different
from what we know.

In a seven-hour session of inner dialogue, I tested
different writing conditions: three hours of being in
private space, two hours of sharing the space with
another person, and two hours of being in public
space.

The experiment looked at several questions:

1) What are the relations between the words being
typed and to our conscious thread of thoughts?

2) Does the normal balance between consciousness
and unconsciousness change?

3) What will be the new definition of our private
space? Public space?

4) What sort of extreme behaviours will it trigger?

5) How far are we willing to go just to have
representations of our thinking selves?




                                                          Seven-hours of writing — Hyde Park



                                                               DB            DM and DK         KB   NM   SP and CW
Experiment 1: INNER DIALOGUE
The first step was to put the new word processor to
the test, and find if this form of writing is different
from what we know.

In a seven-hour session of inner dialogue, I tested
different writing conditions: three hours of being in
private space, two hours of sharing the space with
another person, and two hours of being in public
space.

The experiment looked at several questions:

1) What are the relations between the words being
typed and to our conscious thread of thoughts?

2) Does the normal balance between consciousness
                                                          I don’t know if people are stalking
and unconsciousness change?
                                                          me or I’m the stalker
3) What will be the new definition of our private
                                                          feels weird
space? Public space?
                                                          can feel them looking but I’m talking
4) What sort of extreme behaviours will it trigger?
                                                          on them
5) How far are we willing to go just to have
                                                          back stalking, nice!
representations of our thinking selves?




                                                          Seven-hours of writing — Hyde Park



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For results and analysis on the
project website, click here
(additional experiments exploring themes
of the influence of communication and
confession can also be found there)




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                                                                     !@£$%^&*()
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Double punctuation   Hybrid punctuation




                        DB            DM and DK   KB   NM   SP and CW
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Changing emphasis by changing sentence structure


Charles the First walked and talked
half an hour after his head was cut off.           Charles the            1   st
                                                                                   wal   ked &   talked


Charles the First walked and talked;
half an hour after, his head was cut off.          ½   h ft a   er, hi   s he ad   w      as   ✄ of f


Charles the First walked and talked…
Half an hour after, his head was cut off !!!!

Charles the 1st walked & talked
½ h after, his head was ✄ off.




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Punctuation mutation — forming hybrid punctuation




                                                    DB   DM and DK   KB   NM   SP and CW
Punctuation mutation — forming hybrid punctuation




                                                    DB   DM and DK   KB   NM   SP and CW
Punctuation mutation — forming hybrid punctuation   Punctuation?

                                                    There is a rich world of symbols
                                                    that can change our perception
                                                    of the written language. Never
                                                    pronounced, constantly evolving,
                                                    these seemingly trivial hooks,
                                                    dots and lines can clarify,
                                                    structure or twist a text; they
                                                    can also make us smile or ponder
                                                    upon an intended meaning. But
                                                    on our keyboards this diversity
                                                    is reduced to the bare minimum.
                                                    Let’s mix and merge these
                                                    symbols and invent new ones!
                                                    Devised as an experiment,
                                                    http://punctu.at is an online
                                                    tool to enable anyone to create,
                                                    use and share personal and
                                                    imaginative punctuation.




                                                         DB            DM and DK       KB   NM   SP and CW
Project website, click here




                              DB   DM and DK   KB   NM   SP and CW
Project website, click here




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Future of writing, by Microsoft Research

  • 1. The Future of Writing DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 2. Microsoft Research, Royal College of Art Cambridge DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 3. The following booklet includes background research and proposals from a two-month project commissioned by Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, the Microsoft Office Team and the Design Interactions Department, Royal College of Art, London, UK, as part of the Future of Writing project. The project was launched with a one-day seminar and workshop involving specially invited guest speakers and the participating designers. DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 4. Foreword In this project with Microsoft Research, Cambridge, and the Professor Anthony Dunne, Microsoft Office Team, we explore new ways design can make Head of Programme, technology-supported writing and Design Interactions authorship more meaningful and relevant to our lives, both now, and in the future, by thinking not only about new applications but implications as well. The aim is to inspire, stimulate discussion, and provoke debate in order to help achieve a technological future that reflects the complex, troubled people we are, rather than the easily satisfied consumers and users we are supposed to be. DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 5. Foreword It’s clear that tools for reading and writing are evolving exponentially, Richard Banks, Alex Taylor and with this year’s tweet replacing last Tim Regan year’s blog post. The danger here is that technology becomes the primary from Socio-Digital Systems, way through which authorship and Microsoft Research Cambridge consumption are defined. In this project, undertaken with the Royal College of Art in London, a number of world-class designers speculate beyond technology and functionality on the possibilities for authorship. From the material to the symbolic, the philosophical to the political, this thought-provoking body of work invites new questions on the forms and processes of literary creation. DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 6. Guest speakers Richard Banks For futher information on guest speakers click on the hyperlinks Jeremy Ettinghausen Tim Regan Alex Taylor Tim Etchells Justin McGuirk DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 7. Designers David Benqué page 11 To view projects click on individual tabs below Dash Macdonald and Demitrios Kargotis page 22 Kobe Barhad page 41 Nicolas Myers page 52 Sascha Pohflepp Chris Woebken page 63 DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 8. David Benqué Nicolas Myers The Infinite Adventure Machine Punctu.at is a tool to create, (TIAM) is a proposal for a combine and share new punctuation computer program that generates marks and symbols. Using existing fairy tale plots. typographic shapes, this project explores how personal symbols can Dash Macdonald enrich and modify the meaning of and Demitrios Kargotis a text. A hyper-realistic workshop Sascha Pohflepp training script that uses iconic Chris Woebken stories and films as models to explore the Conservative Party’s The future of writing will be the contemporary grand narrative of future of writing down everything, ‘The Big Society’. by machinic ghost-writers who have long been compiling our auto- Kobe Barhad autobiographies. It will also be the “Thoughts you may have” is future of reading those narratives research that explores the of data, about our past, present and existence of our inner dialogues. future. Using text prediction tools, a space for private thoughts are produced in a virtual social network. DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 9. Credits Project mentor Onkar Kular Graphic design and project documentation Kellenberger–White DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 10. DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 11. 11 David Benqué The Infinite Adventure Machine DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 12. David Benqué www.davidbenque.com Recent press We Make Money Not Art Creative Applications boingboing Cool Hunting Co. Design Illustration based on a Propp input sequence DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 13. This is the thinking that 2) ‘The Morphology of led to the project... the Folktale’ by Vladimir Propp. This book raises I came across a paper by the idea of story DNA, “Story is to human beings what the Joseph Gold, who argues which could be interesting storytelling and narrative to look at in relation to pearl is to osyters, active adaptation.” are a biologically evolved computer science. Joseph Gold functions of humans and actually have an Propp split the Russian evolutionary purpose fairy tale into 31 basic in keeping us alive and functions within which any evolving us as a species. tale of the specific subset that he was studying Two books that helped me fitted. develop my ideas... The example (below) of 1) ‘The Uses of function 8a shows each Enchantment’ by Bruno function as an action Bettelheim. It’s about or an event. Each one fairy tales, and looks at has up to 15 possible their function — their manifestations. Scientists significance for child have tried to use Propp’s development and the inspired theories to create transition to adulthood. generators. Thursday, 30 June 2011 DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 14. One of the problems I ran generate anything Each character has a goal, hungry or not thirsty, or into is that the formula because you have to fill in such as to like hunger or something like that. selects randomly pre- all the blanks. thirst, or to become not written chunks of text for a function, jams it all I came across a piece of together and spits out a work by James Meehan tale that is less interesting called ‘Tale Spin’, part of than the initial formula. his dissertation written in 1976, and this started to Generating compelling be a bit more interesting narratives is a killer — it because he was exposing is like the frontier of the kind of processes computer science. and relationships that he I widened my scope of programmed to get to the research and ran into outcome. a whole score of online movie plot generators, which don’t actually ‘Function 8a’ based on Vladimir Propp Online movie plot generator ‘Plot-O-Matic’ DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 15. Script produced using ‘Plot-O-Matic’ him where some honey was. Irving agreed. But Joe didn’t know where any worms were, so he asked Irving, who refused to say. So Joe offered to bring him a worm if he’d tell him where any worms were. Irving agreed. But Joe didn’t know where any worms were... and so on. First example: the cheese. The fox Once upon a time there walked over to the crow. was a dishonest fox and The end. a vain crow. One day the crow was sitting Second example: in his tree, holding a Joe the bear was hungry. piece of cheese in his He asked Irving the bird mouth. He noticed that where some honey was. he was holding the piece Irving refused to tell him, of cheese. He became so Joe offered to bring hungry, and swallowed him a worm if he’d tell Illustration based on ‘Tale Spin’ DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 16. The Infinite Adventure Machine (TIAM) Project website, click here is a proposal for a computer program that generates fairy tale plots. While fully automatic story generation remains an unsolved problem for computer science, this project explores the links between imagination and computation. Tales and myths, the core narratives of human culture, have been transmitted for generations through various technologies and media. What new forms might they take through digital formats and Artificial Intelligence? Based on the work of Vladimir Propp, who reduced the structure of Russian folktales to 31 basic functions, TIAM aims to question the limitations and implications of attempts at programming language and narrative. Because the program is unable to deliver a finished story, rather only a crude synopsis and illustrations, users have to improvise, filling the gaps with their imaginations and making up for the technology’s shortcomings. DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 17. The Infinite Adventure Machine (TIAM) Project website, click here is a proposal for a computer program that generates fairy tale plots. While fully automatic story generation remains an unsolved problem for computer science, this project explores the links between imagination and computation. Tales and myths; the core narratives of human culture, have been transmitted for generations through various technologies and media. What new forms might they take through digital formats and Artificial Intelligence? Based on the work of Vladimir Propp, who reduced the structure of russian folk-tales to 31 basic functions, TIAM aims to question the limitations and implications of attempts at programming language and narrative. Because the program is unable to deliver a finished story, rather only a crude synopsis and illustrations, users have to improvise, filling the gaps with their imagination and making up for the technology’s shortcomings. DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 18. The Infinite Adventure Machine (TIAM) Project website, click here is a proposal for a computer program that generates fairy tale plots. While fully automatic story generation remains an unsolved problem for computer science, this project explores the links between imagination and computation. Tales and myths; the core narratives of human culture, have been transmitted for generations through various technologies and media. What new forms might they take through digital formats and Artificial Intelligence? Based on the work of Vladimir Propp, who reduced the structure of russian folk-tales to 31 basic functions, TIAM aims to question the limitations and implications of attempts at programming language and narrative. Because the program is unable to deliver a finished story, rather only a crude synopsis and illustrations, users have to improvise, filling the gaps with their imagination and making up for the technology’s shortcomings. DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 19. The Infinite Adventure Machine (TIAM) Project website, click here is a proposal for a computer program that generates fairy tale plots. While fully automatic story generation remains an unsolved problem for computer science, this project explores the links between imagination and computation. Tales and myths; the core narratives of human culture, have been transmitted for generations through various technologies and media. What new forms might they take through digital formats and Artificial Intelligence? Based on the work of Vladimir Propp, who reduced the structure of russian folk-tales to 31 basic functions, TIAM aims to question the limitations and implications of attempts at programming language and narrative. Because the program is unable to deliver a finished story, rather only a crude synopsis and illustrations, users have to improvise, filling the gaps with their imagination and making up for the technology’s shortcomings. DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 20. The Infinite Adventure Machine (TIAM) Project website, click here is a proposal for a computer program that generates fairy tale plots. While fully automatic story generation remains an unsolved problem for computer science, this project explores the links between imagination and computation. Tales and myths, the core narratives of human culture, have been transmitted for generations through various technologies and media. What new forms might they take through digital formats and Artificial Intelligence? Based on the work of Vladimir Propp, who reduced the structure of Russian folktales to 31 basic functions, TIAM aims to question the limitations and implications of attempts at programming language and narrative. Because the program is unable to deliver a finished story, rather only a crude synopsis and illustrations, users have to improvise, filling the gaps with their imaginations and making up for the technology’s shortcomings. DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
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  • 22. Let's start with our first case study. [Slide 1] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals with adult and current issues for the Big Society, specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and disadvantaged. [Slide 2] Snow White is essentially a young person who has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She 22 finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother, Dash Macdonald death of her father. a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over the kingdom after the and Demitrios [Slide 3] Kargotis Homelessness is an important issue in our current Happily Ever After net, ultimately being let society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand people slip through the in the Big Society we are to meet the Big down by the system. If Society's intention of being big enough to include even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs demonstrates an interesting approach. [Slide 4] Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs arrive home, they are astonished to discover the house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 23. Let's start with our first case study. [Slide 1] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals with adult and current issues for the Big Society, specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and disadvantaged. [Slide 2] Snow White is essentially a young person who has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She Dash Macdonald finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and and Demitrios Kargotis scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother, a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over www.dashndem.com the kingdom after the death of her father. [Slide 3] This is the thinking that led to the project... Homelessness is an important issue in our current society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand The following text and images have people slip through the net, ultimately being let been re-arranged to form a theatre down by the system. If we are to meet the Big script. Society's intention of being big enough to include even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs demonstrates an interesting approach. [Slide 4] Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents Image opposite, may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs book: Paul Corrigan, arrive home, they are astonished to discover the house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying ‘Shakespeare on Management’ DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 24. Let's start with our first case study. [Slide 1] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals with adult and current issues for the Big Society, specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and disadvantaged. [Slide 2] Snow White is essentially a young person who has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She INTRODUCTION finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother, a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over Dash arranges his presentation notes her father. the kingdom after the death of and laptop on a small side table. He opens his 3] [Slide keynote presentation and readies himself to introduce his project. Before he proceeds with Homelessness is an important issue in our current society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand his presentation, the leader of the people slip through the net, ultimately being let Microsoft team introduces several new meet the Big down by the system. If we are to guests to theintention of being big enough to include Society's rest of the audience. even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are ACT ONE innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs demonstrates an interesting approach. DASH: (Decisively) We have decided to focus [Slide 4] on reformatting text and how narrative content is taken from one context the forest, Snow White Going back to the story, in and represented within a different format she enters, and finding discovers a tiny cottage, which no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she — and the social implications of that… decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents (Pauses) her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs may let arrive home, they are astonished to discover the house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying Above: the Big Society Manifesto DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 25. Let's start with our first case study. [Slide 1] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals with adult and current issues for the Big Society, specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and disadvantaged. [Slide 2] Snow White is essentially a young person who has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She This got us thinking about policy writing finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and and we were looking at the Big Society scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother, a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over document. the kingdom after the death of her father. (Pauses and takes a deep breath) [Slide 3] We were wondering how many people actually go online and download this Homelessness is an important issue in our current society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand document? How could it hijack other people slip through the net, ultimately being let narrative formats? What if certain down by the system. If we are to meet the Big values within the Big Society were Society's intention of being big enough to include written up as a script from Eastenders? even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's (Image opposite above: Eastenders) reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs demonstrates an interesting approach. (Image opposite below: Emmerdale) [Slide 4] (Reads from presentation) ‘On 27 May 1997 Emmerdale attracted Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White over 13 million viewers when Frank Tate discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she died of a heart attack after his wife, decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents Kim Tate, returned after faking her own may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs death months before’. arrive home, they are astonished to discover the house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 26. Let's start with our first case study. [Slide 1] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals with adult and current issues for the Big Society, specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and disadvantaged. [Slide 2] Snow White is essentially a young person who has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She We looked at the amount of people that finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and are going to see something like this, scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother, a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over and in terms of politics, how something the kingdom after the death of her father. could be presented and mediated by hijacking much more public and popular [Slide 3] cultured narratives. Homelessness is an important issue in our current society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand Looking at the rhetoric in the Big people slip through the net, ultimately being let Society document, the way it is written down by the system. If we are to meet the Big in a rhythmical way, made us think Society's intention of being big enough to include of using a lyric generator to produce even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are a song out of key lines from the innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's document. reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs demonstrates an interesting approach. (Image opposite above: phantom lyrics) [Slide 4] (Image opposite below: Project Umubano) Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she It would fit the document’s nature decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents of focusing on the emotive side of may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs community involvement, volunteering, arrive home, they are astonished to discover the and connecting, rather than the reality house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 27. Let's start with our first case study. [Slide 1] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals with adult and current issues for the Big Society, specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and disadvantaged. [Slide 2] Snow White is essentially a young person who has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She of how things are going to be funded finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and and work when there is less money. scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother, a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over the kingdom after the death of her father. But, again, how we would address this would be not from a political [Slide 3] perspective but looking at the construction behind different ways that Homelessness is an important issue in our current society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand it could be mediated or reinterpreted as. people slip through the net, ultimately being let down by the system. If we are to meet the Big ACT TWO Society's intention of being big enough to include even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are We also got interested in the corporate innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's appropriation and exploitation of reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs demonstrates an interesting approach. symbolism within narrative, in the format of corporate role-play. [Slide 4] (Image opposite above: Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White ‘Avant-Garde Teambuilding’) discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding (Image opposite below: no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents ‘Forum Theatre’) may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs arrive home, they are astonished to discover the house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 28. Let's start with our first case study. [Slide 1] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals with adult and current issues for the Big Society, specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and disadvantaged. [Slide 2] Snow White is essentially a young person who has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She One of the ideas we had was to re- So these herselfdifferent directions finds are the lost in the forest, tired, hungry and dramatise a classic play such as ‘Romeo that we were looking at, and we escapes from her stepmother, scared after she narrowly wanted a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over and Juliet’ in the format of corporate tothe kingdom after the death of her father. use today as an opportunity to role-play. How could it all be written and gauge interest within these directions restructured in relation to a role-play and hear your thoughts on it. [Slide 3] scenario? In terms of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ it could be a conflict negotiation for END Homelessness is an important issue in our current society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand example… people slip through the net, ultimately being let down by the system. If we are to meet the Big This brought us into looking at Forum Society's intention of being big enough to include Theatre, which was initially developed even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are to help people who were being innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's oppressed at work to help them learn reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs demonstrates an interesting approach. how to communicate and overthrow the repressive system they were in… [Slide 4] (cough) …It’s now widely used within corporate training for negotiation skills Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White and to treat communication failure: discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she a specific scenario is played out by a decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents group of actors, and then the audience may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs intervenes and rescripts it into a more arrive home, they are astonished to discover the positive outcome. house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 29. Let's start with our first case study. [Slide 1] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals with adult and current issues for the Big Society, specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and disadvantaged. [Slide 2] Snow White is essentially a young person who has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She ‘Happily Ever Afterlost in the forest, tired, hungry and finds herself in the Big Society’ scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother, ‘Happily Ever After in the Big Society’ taken over a vain and wicked Queen who has is the kingdom after the death of her father. a hyper-realistic workshop training script that uses fictional case studies [Slide 3] to model and explore goals and objectives identified in the 2010 Homelessness is an important issue in our current ConservativeAt any one Expanding on fifty-six thousand society. manifesto. time, some the misappropriation and exploitation people slip through the net, ultimately being let ofdown by the system. If we are to meet the Big fiction in management training, the project questions whether it is possible Society's intention of being big enough to include even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are toinnovativeideashow we address this issue. Snow White's transpose in from iconic stories and films into real-world applications, reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs and the socio-political implications of demonstrates an interesting approach. reworking fictional models to inform the contemporary grand narrative of [Slide 4] ‘The Big Society’. Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs arrive home, they are astonished to discover the house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 30. Let's start with our first case study. [Slide 1] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals with adult and current issues for the Big Society, specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and disadvantaged. [Slide 2] Snow White is essentially a young person who has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She The following pages are an extract from finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and a workshop document. The following scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother, a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over PowerPoint presentation is seen as the the kingdom after the death of her father. workshop notes are read out. [Slide 3] The full workshop document can be downloaded, here Homelessness is an important issue in our current society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand people slip through the net, ultimately being let down by the system. If we are to meet the Big Society's intention of being big enough to include even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs demonstrates an interesting approach. [Slide 4] Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs arrive home, they are astonished to discover the house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 31. Let's start with our first case study. [Slide 1] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals with adult and current issues for the Big Society, specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and disadvantaged. [Slide 2] Snow White is essentially a young person who has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She Project website: Case Study 1 finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother, www.dashndem.com a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over the kingdom after the death of her father. Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 [Slide 3] Homelessness is an important issue in our current society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand people slip through the net, ultimately being let down by the system. If we are to meet the Big Society's intention of being big enough to include Socal inclusion for the homless and disadvantaged even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are Themes and Issues innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's Cultivating a truly reciprocal society reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs demonstrates an interesting approach. [Slide 4] Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding We know we have a shared responsibility, that we’re all in this together. no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents David Cameron may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs arrive home, they are astonished to discover the house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying Slide 1 DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 32. Let's start with our first case study. [Slide 1] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals with adult and current issues for the Big Society, specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and disadvantaged. [Slide 2] Snow White is essentially a young person who has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She Snow White has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family Project website: finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother, www.dashndem.com a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over the kingdom after the death of her father. [Slide 3] Homelessness is an important issue in our current society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand people slip through the net, ultimately being let down by the system. If we are to meet the Big Society's intention of being big enough to include even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs demonstrates an interesting approach. [Slide 4] Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs arrive home, they are astonished to discover the house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying Slide 2 DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 33. Let's start with our first case study. [Slide 1] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals with adult and current issues for the Big Society, specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and disadvantaged. [Slide 2] Snow White is essentially a young person who has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She At any one time, some 56,000 people slip through the net Project website: finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother, www.dashndem.com a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over the kingdom after the death of her father. [Slide 3] Homelessness is an important issue in our current society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand people slip through the net, ultimately being let down by the system. If we are to meet the Big Society's intention of being big enough to include even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs demonstrates an interesting approach. [Slide 4] Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs arrive home, they are astonished to discover the house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying Slide 3 DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 34. Let's start with our first case study. [Slide 1] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals with adult and current issues for the Big Society, specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and disadvantaged. [Slide 2] Snow White is essentially a young person who has become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She Back to the story... Project website: finds herself lost in the forest, tired, hungry and scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother, www.dashndem.com a vain and wicked Queen who has taken over the kingdom after the death of her father. [Slide 3] Homelessness is an important issue in our current society. At any one time, some fifty-six thousand people slip through the net, ultimately being let down by the system. If we are to meet the Big Society's intention of being big enough to include even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are innovative in how we address this issue. Snow White's reciprocal relationship with the Seven Dwarfs demonstrates an interesting approach. [Slide 4] Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs arrive home, they are astonished to discover the house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying Slide 4 DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 35. asleep across their beds, she is asked to leave by Grumpy; however, she explains her dilemma and pleads to stay, offering in return to 'keep house', to wash, sew, sweep and cook for them. Despite the risk the Dwarfs face from the evil Queen and her black magic, they decide to let her stay. I will now play the scene where the Seven Dwarfs arrive home while Snow White is sleeping upstairs: [Note for trainer: play DVD from 00:28:00 - 00:38:00] [Slide 5] There are three key points that I would like you to consider: •Snow White took initiative by cleaning the house Points to Consider website: Project before the Seven Dwarfs returned home •Snow White identified that her skills could help the www.dashndem.com Seven Dwarfs and used this to come to a mutually beneficial agreement •Key to the successful outcome of this scenario, was the Seven Dwarfs, decision to show trust and willingness to reach out and help a disadvantaged Snow White took initiative by cleaning the house before the Seven Dwarfs returned home person. Snow White identified that her skills could help the Seven Dwarfs and used this to come [Slide 6] to a mutually beneficial agreement. Exercise One Role-Play: Negotiating a Reciprocal Key to the successful outcome of this scenario was the Seven Dwarfs decision, to show Relationship trust and willingness to reach out and help a disadvantaged person For this first exercise, we are going to stage a role-play based on the part of the scene we have just watched, where Snow White is trying to convince the Seven Dwarfs to let her stay. Firstly, we need to consider the factors that influence the Seven Dwarfs’ decision: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 [Slide 7] Slide 5 DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 36. asleep across their beds, she is asked to leave by Grumpy; however, she explains her dilemma and pleads to stay, offering in return to 'keep house', to wash, sew, sweep and cook for them. Despite the risk the Dwarfs face from the evil Queen and her black magic, they decide to let her stay. I will now play the scene where the Seven Dwarfs arrive home while Snow White is sleeping upstairs: [Note for trainer: play DVD from 00:28:00 - 00:38:00] [Slide 5] There are three key points that I would like you to consider: •Snow White took initiative by cleaning the house Role-Play: Negotiating a Reciprocal website: Project Relationship before the Seven Dwarfs returned home •Snow White identified that her skills could help the Snow White is trying to convince www.dashndem.com stay the Seven Dwarfs to let Seven Dwarfs and used this to come to a mutually beneficial agreement •Key to the successful outcome of this scenario, was the Seven Dwarfs, decision to show trust and Positive Negative Ethical Dilemma willingness to reach out and help a disadvantaged person. Snow White has already impressed with her cooking and cleaning, and Danger from vengeance of the evil [Slide 6] offers to continue to ‘keep house’ Queen and her black magic by washing, sewing, sweeping and If the Seven Dwarfs refuse to allow cooking for them Exercise One Role-Play: Negotiating a Reciprocal Snow White to stay, she would be all alone in the forest and could be Relationship She can cook gooseberry pie, the killed by the evil Queen Dwarfs, favourite For this first exercise, we are going to stage a Snow White is a stranger who role-play based on the part of the scene we have just broke into their home Snow White is beautiful and watched, where Snow White is trying to convince the charming Seven Dwarfs to let her stay. Firstly, we need to consider the factors that influence the Seven Dwarfs’ decision: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 [Slide 7] Slide 6 DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 37. asleep across their beds, she is asked to leave by Grumpy; however, she explains her dilemma and pleads to stay, offering in return to 'keep house', to wash, sew, sweep and cook for them. Despite the risk the Dwarfs face from the evil Queen and her black magic, they decide to let her stay. I will now play the scene where the Seven Dwarfs arrive home while Snow White is sleeping upstairs: [Note for trainer: play DVD from 00:28:00 - 00:38:00] [Slide 5] There are three key points that I would like you to consider: •Snow White took initiative by cleaning the house Character Traits Project website: before the Seven Dwarfs returned home •Snow White identified that her skills could help the www.dashndem.com Seven Dwarfs and used this to come to a mutually beneficial agreement Grumpy Snow White Doc •Key to the successful outcome of this scenario, was the Seven Dwarfs, decision to show trust and willingness to reach out and help a disadvantaged person. [Slide 6] Exercise One Role-Play: Negotiating a Reciprocal Relationship For this first exercise, we are going to stage a role-play based on the part of the scene we have just watched, where Snow White is trying to convince the Intelligent, sceptical, cynical, Kind, polite, eager to please, Authoritative, compassionate, Seven Dwarfs to let her stay. clashes with Doc innocent bumbling, loves gooseberry pie Firstly, we need to consider the factors that influence the Seven Dwarfs’ decision: [Slide 7] Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 Slide 7 DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 38. asleep across their beds, she is asked to leave by Grumpy; however, she explains her dilemma and pleads to stay, offering in return to 'keep house', to wash, sew, sweep and cook for them. Despite the risk the Dwarfs face from the evil Queen and her black magic, they decide to let her stay. I will now play the scene where the Seven Dwarfs arrive home while Snow White is sleeping upstairs: [Note for trainer: play DVD from 00:28:00 - 00:38:00] [Slide 5] There are three key points that I would like you to consider: •Snow White took initiative by cleaning the house For this improvisational scenarioProject website: we need three volunteers before the Seven Dwarfs returned home •Snow White identified that her skills could help the www.dashndem.com Seven Dwarfs and used this to come to a mutually beneficial agreement •Key to the successful outcome of this scenario, was the Seven Dwarfs, decision to show trust and willingness to reach out and help a disadvantaged person. [Slide 6] Exercise One Role-Play: Negotiating a Reciprocal Relationship For this first exercise, we are going to stage a role-play based on the part of the scene we have just GRUMPY: “We know who we are, ask her who she is and what she is doing here?” watched, where Snow White is trying to convince the DOC: ... Seven Dwarfs to let her stay. SNOW WHITE: ... Firstly, we need to consider the factors that influence the Seven Dwarfs’ decision: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 [Slide 7] Slide 8 DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 39. Begin with Snow White introducing her scheme. Great! We’ve now seen two different responses to how this concept might apply to a community. How did you feel this role-play went and how could Snow White improve her proposal and pitch? Was Grumpy’s argument strong enough and how did Doc get on board? [Note for trainer: You can repeat this several times with the group] [Slide 9] Exercise two A new government website links volunteers to people willing to offer a vacant room in exchange for Exercise 2 Project website: services provided to them and their wider community. Write an advert stipulating your requirements in www.dashndem.com exchange for: A spacious, bright room available in “A spacious, bright room available in Edgbaston, two Edgbaston, situated two minutes from minutes from bus stop, worth £85 per week, bills bus stop, worth £85 per week, bills included.” included. In return, I am looking for ...” In return I am looking for ... [Example for trainer: “A motivated individual trying to improve his/her situation. Willing to volunteer 8 hours per week for community projects and do a minimum of three hours of house work per week in my home.” ] [Note for trainer: Allow 5 minutes for the group to write their ads] Now, I would like everyone to read out their ads so that we can discuss them. Grumpy represent the council members responsible for Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 making the decision. Begin with Snow White introducing her scheme. Slide 9 DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 40. Slide 9 DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 41. 41 Koby Barhad How do I know what I think until I see what I say? DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 42. Writing thinking writings Project website, www.thoughtsyoumayhave.com This research first explores the use of a writing application, designed to represent the structure and behaviour of humans, private thinking space. In a series of three experiments (seven hours of inner dialogue, a couple communicating through inner dialogues, and a religious confession in which a reverend shares his private space with a confessor) I discovered the potential of these representations to act as a self-and social exploration tool. Looking at writing prediction technologies, I develop them, and a social space where people manage their externalised thinking streams, developing it, share and influence others streams of thoughts. Cogitos is a virtual existence of the thinking self that continues to evolve even after we have long disappeared from this world. DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 43. The following pages are taken from Koby’s project website, www.thoughtsyoumayhave.com “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” (E.M. Forster) “Thoughts you may have” is research that looks into the existence and possibility of regenerating what Augustine of Hippo described as “Soliloquium” — our Inner Dialogue. It is a project commissioned by Microsoft Research, Cambridge, in which we were asked to “experiment with new tools for authoring”... “to redefine the relations between public and private authorship”. My aim was to reintroduce writing as a form of thinking, and as the research advanced it became clear that thinking and writing are not only the “twins of mental life”, they can actually produce a possible form of it. Instillation of the ‘word processor’ framework DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 44. Word Processor The new framework is as addictive as surfing the web. It allows users the opportunity to consciously read their own thoughts. The data is arranged in the same order as in our minds, thus making the effect very powerful. It’s very hard to stop writing as soon as you are drawn into the screen. One test subject wrote: “When the screen went blank and I could not write, I realised how involved with this I had become. I did not want to stop and was very frustrated.” Using the ‘word processor’ framework DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 45. Word Processor Codes Daydreaming — Moments that users lost their conscious view. The program was set to produce a sign if nothing was typed for 30 seconds. / daydreaming Speaking — Moments the subjects had to speak with others in the physical world. Singing and Humming — Moments users realised {} singing /humming they where humming to themselves. [] speaking with others Image: symbols used for categorising thoughts DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 46. Experiment 1: INNER DIALOGUE The first step was to put the new word processor to the test, and find if this form of writing is different from what we know. In a seven-hour session of inner dialogue, I tested different writing conditions: three hours of being in private space, two hours of sharing the space with another person, and two hours of being in public space. The experiment looked at several questions: 1) What are the relations between the words being typed and to our conscious thread of thoughts? 2) Does the normal balance between consciousness and unconsciousness change? 3) What will be the new definition of our private space? Public space? 4) What sort of extreme behaviours will it trigger? 5) How far are we willing to go just to have representations of our thinking selves? Laptop carrier DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 47. Experiment 1: INNER DIALOGUE The first step was to put the new word processor to the test, and find if this form of writing is different from what we know. In a seven-hour session of inner dialogue, I tested different writing conditions: three hours of being in private space, two hours of sharing the space with another person, and two hours of being in public space. The experiment looked at several questions: 1) What are the relations between the words being typed and to our conscious thread of thoughts? 2) Does the normal balance between consciousness and unconsciousness change? 3) What will be the new definition of our private space? Public space? 4) What sort of extreme behaviours will it trigger? ye what the f*** are you looking at f******! 5) How far are we willing to go just to have representations of our thinking selves? [] / hate photo shooting shut up Seven-hours of writing — South Kensington DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 48. Experiment 1: INNER DIALOGUE The first step was to put the new word processor to the test, and find if this form of writing is different from what we know. In a seven-hour session of inner dialogue, I tested different writing conditions: three hours of being in private space, two hours of sharing the space with another person, and two hours of being in public space. The experiment looked at several questions: 1) What are the relations between the words being typed and to our conscious thread of thoughts? 2) Does the normal balance between consciousness and unconsciousness change? 3) What will be the new definition of our private space? Public space? 4) What sort of extreme behaviours will it trigger? 5) How far are we willing to go just to have representations of our thinking selves? Seven-hours of writing — Hyde Park DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 49. Experiment 1: INNER DIALOGUE The first step was to put the new word processor to the test, and find if this form of writing is different from what we know. In a seven-hour session of inner dialogue, I tested different writing conditions: three hours of being in private space, two hours of sharing the space with another person, and two hours of being in public space. The experiment looked at several questions: 1) What are the relations between the words being typed and to our conscious thread of thoughts? 2) Does the normal balance between consciousness I don’t know if people are stalking and unconsciousness change? me or I’m the stalker 3) What will be the new definition of our private feels weird space? Public space? can feel them looking but I’m talking 4) What sort of extreme behaviours will it trigger? on them 5) How far are we willing to go just to have back stalking, nice! representations of our thinking selves? Seven-hours of writing — Hyde Park DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 50. For results and analysis on the project website, click here (additional experiments exploring themes of the influence of communication and confession can also be found there) DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
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  • 52. 52 Arial Unicode MS Nicolas Myers abcdefghijklm- Punctuation? nopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEF- GHIJKLM- NOPQRSTU- VWXYZ 1234567890 !@£$%^&*() DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 53. Nicolas Myers The following section of British character set of Arial Unicode Arial Unicode MS typography experiments is based www.portfolio.myers.fr/home on a page format that was used www.studiomyers.co.uk/ for a well-know type foundry. abcdefghijk lmnopqrst uvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJK LMNOPQRST UVWXYZ 1234567890 !@£$%^&*() DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 54. ‼ ‽ Double punctuation Hybrid punctuation DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 55. . Changing emphasis by changing sentence structure Charles the First walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off. Charles the 1 st wal ked & talked Charles the First walked and talked; half an hour after, his head was cut off. ½ h ft a er, hi s he ad w as ✄ of f Charles the First walked and talked… Half an hour after, his head was cut off !!!! Charles the 1st walked & talked ½ h after, his head was ✄ off. DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 56. Punctuation mutation — forming hybrid punctuation DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 57. Punctuation mutation — forming hybrid punctuation DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 58. Punctuation mutation — forming hybrid punctuation Punctuation? There is a rich world of symbols that can change our perception of the written language. Never pronounced, constantly evolving, these seemingly trivial hooks, dots and lines can clarify, structure or twist a text; they can also make us smile or ponder upon an intended meaning. But on our keyboards this diversity is reduced to the bare minimum. Let’s mix and merge these symbols and invent new ones! Devised as an experiment, http://punctu.at is an online tool to enable anyone to create, use and share personal and imaginative punctuation. DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 59. Project website, click here DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
  • 60. Project website, click here DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW