Rebooting REBOOT

I was amazed coming to the Reboot 9.0in Copenhagen. I was like when i first stumpeled upon a group of interaction designers, the same kind of kindred spirit that you just know is present when a lot of people how are deeply engaged in largely the same kind of mission.

And people at Reboot seemed to be on a mission. The focus was on Social web and web 2.0 and what the current revolution is doing to our basic concept of being HUMAN.

I was invited by George Pór to help him develop and give a talk on Boosting our collective intelligence – developed to its final form with Yann Mauchamp too. To us designing for ‘boosting’ our collective intelligence means to be very conscious of how we are creating and facilitating social interaction to reach a peak collaboration. Our points were pretty well received and we are working now to make them shaper for next time.

To me collective intelligence is really at the root of what I am doing with Social Design and User Experience. I think that we are drawn towards these situations of increased capacity through collaboration as a natural drive. Collective intelligence is a complex issue to unfold and explore, and George Pór has been a thought leader on the subject for a quarter of a century. It is incredibly interesting to be able to collaborate with him and Yann in moving the edge of the concept as best we can.

Image by Holger