a mark & linda meeting

So there are some consistent occasions now when linda and I are able to meet in a physical place and work together. things are always different and more rich when you are meeeting in a physical space sharing the immediate rich material space and invoking it as you work.

Example: Walking through downtown Manhattan Beach for dinner we stumbled upon "Design Within Reach" a furnishing store that had already surfaced in our research for our Lure Project. Even though the store was closed for the evening, there laying on the sidewalk was their catalogue filled with designer created products and statements about them. We walked further to a hotel called Shade, an upscale 40 room designer hotel where we were able to talk to one of the investor/owners about their project and the designer they hired on staff to create their very contemporary feel. Not surprisingly our research was enriched dramatically.

We discussed Linda's great "work stream" encapsulation of our work with xigiBiz and Ricoh. And we talked about adding market sizing to a preliminary map I made of the Furniture Industry (for Lure). We talked a great deal about how to capture the work processes of Collective Intelligence so that we can better produce, articulate and surface the value of transparent, cooperative nests of intelligence. And we talked about the value of crop circles. As soon as I get back to Oaxaca with my new scanner I am going to start incorporating crop circle images into my lexicon of mapping icons.

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