Creative Thinking
No idea is an island, no innovation not supported by the ones that have come before. To engage in a thoughtful and creative way is to allow the freedom to play, to play with concepts and ideas, to play with technologies and tools, to play outside of the traditional and inside the realm of possibility. The constructs of the business models we create can be the frameworks that support our ability to play but we are often restricted by the realities of business economics. How do we support business cultures that encourage play and accept and respect when ideas don’t succeed? How can we interpret the value of ideas to businesses and their wider communities…
Creative Enterprise
Arts, Business, Technology and Education these are the things that form the frameworks of our culture. They are in tern driven by the ability of artists, designers, programmers and teachers to create and innovate. We don’t think about labels like designer or teacher in traditional terms, we find stereotypes to be limiting and unhelpful. Managers of large corporations can be architects of cultures and teachers of 1000’s of people. Similarly scientists can programme tools that allow for online interactions that spark 100’s of artist’s projects. The worlds of Arts, Business, Technology and Education are not disparate but interlinked. At Huella we investigate those connections and come together to design projects that through research inspire…
A Bit About Huella
What is Huella?
Huella is home to like minded people who come together to make things happen. Spanning the fields of Arts, Business, Technology, and Education, find info on projects & blog thoughts from owner Andrea Burns.
News and Features
Now Then Magazine Impossible Project
Earlier this year I interviewed Impossible Project Co-founder Florean Kaps for my article in Now Then Magazine about rise of analogue media and the business opportunities it presents to those with vision and commitment to a project. “We see our products creating and forming a unique niche market for passionate people, who choose our products besides everything the digital market is offering them.” Florean Kaps, Impossible Project co-founder. Its snapshot heritage is steeped in the nostalgia of the coffee table photo album, its square edges capturing the faded sepia tones of childhood and the painterly sun-drenched landscapes of winding road trips. The instant clunk and wind of a Polaroid camera, a sturdy and mechanical action reassuring in its weighty…
Inspiration From The International Space Station
Continuing to share things that have been inspiring me and informing my research recently. Heres a video compiled of time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011. It really doesn’t need any more words than that really. Enjoy.
Collaborative Consumption Thoughts On Co-spaces
Crowdsourcing and mapping. There have been some incredible open access crowdsourced mapping projects happening recently, which take data from public sources and willing participants to create useful and interactive ways to share information. From Aid organisations to artists programmers the humble map has now become an inventive and sometimes radical tool in the arsenal of community focused users. Some interesting projects that have caught my eye include What Was There a social history project where users upload personal images and map the events and stories which happen within their towns and cities. On a larger scale RDTN.org is interactive map documenting radiation levels across Japan after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster. The project pulls information from the The Japanese…
Simple Philanthropy Built Into Your Business Model
A brilliant idea. 1% of Nothing. So simple its scary. Encourageing philanthropy in business from day one, 1% of Nothing connects startups and founders to causes to which they can donate 1% of their equity. If and when that company gets acquired, goes public, etc., that equity then turns into cash for that cause, instantly. The idea was hought up by Matt Galligan and Shervin Pishevar after strolling into the wrong talk at a conference, a serendipitous story which can read here on their site. The reason I get excited about projects like this is because they ignore old models and change the way we think about doing business. The quietly understood mantra of old is to ‘get yours before you…
Creativity In Education You’re Doing It Wrong
With over 7 million hits this 2006 TED talk from Sir Ken Robinson has struck a cord with people the world over. The topic is EDUCATION and the stake couldn’t be higher. Here Sir Ken talks about the importance of creativity in our schools, the smart people understand that its through creativity that our passions and in tern our businesses can flourish. Now I work with a lot of business people who get very nervous about the word ‘creativity’ they like the word ‘innovation’ but seem bemused at the thought that innovations have to come from somewhere other than a 5 minute monday morning feedback session after the yawn stiffling 2 hour management meeting. In…
Seth Godin Marketing In Bite Size Chunks
So next up on the list of tasty brain snacks is Seth Godin. I wouldn’t recommend trying to eat him up whole but you can find his ideas shared in the easily digestible formats of book / blog / video and audio book. A mixture of marketing genius and self help guru Seth Godin has offered frameworks that support our understanding of the post TV read/write world. A world where advertisers can no longer command our attention simply by asking for it, a world where the consumer demands respect and authenticity. He developed the burgeoning idea of permission marketing and refined the thesis in his book Permission marketing: turning strangers into friends, and friends into customers…