{"id":1553,"date":"2010-02-27T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2010-02-27T09:11:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T14:11:17","slug":"bodystorming-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=1553","title":{"rendered":"Bodystorming in Chicago &#8211; A Design Thinking Stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we did a bodystorming in Chicago.  We had a great group of people who came to do bodystorming and they enjoyed it. They were a mix of designers, engineers\/Computer scientists, and actors. One of the most interesting comments of the evening was by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dramaticdiversity.com\/\">Byron Stewart of Dramatic Diversity<\/a> , my theater partner in this, who commented about half-way through the exercise to me that he had initially thought some of the engineering and computer science people were actors because they were getting into it so well.<\/p>\n<p>That speaks to the importance of structuring an environment and activities.  Everything about the evening was positioned and arranged to encourage people to bodystorm. We weren&#8217;t just telling people &#8220;Ok, now bodystorm.&#8221;  Even though this is similar to improv and as such seems not to be scripted there is a lot of preparation and planning involved.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Martin writes about &#8220;stance . . .  the knowledge domain in which you define how you see the world around you and how you see yourself in that world.&#8221; In last nights bodystorming we put people into a different stance and it resulted in encouraging exploration and innovation in how people saw and approached the design problem.   As Martin also writes &#8220;The design thinker has a stance that seeks the unknown, embraces the possibility of surprise, and is comfortable with wading into complexity not knowing what is on the other side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy very much how Martin writes about design thinking and believe that bodystorming like this are one of the few ways to cultivate this kind of stance for people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roger Martin in &#8220;The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage.&#8221; 2009<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbodystorming.blogspot.com\/\">ProjectBodystorming<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?page_id=1138\"><br \/>\nIssue Boards (Another Technique for Design Thinking)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we did a bodystorming in Chicago. We had a great group of people who came to do bodystorming and they enjoyed it. They were a mix of designers, engineers\/Computer scientists, and actors. One of the most interesting comments of the evening was by Byron Stewart of Dramatic Diversity , my theater partner in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}