We had a nibble. We got our teeth right into it. A few pieces got stuck in our throats. A lot of it went down a treat. And here and there some real magic happened. Everyone loved Aaron Koblin. Everyone talked about the Green Challenge award and the Hot 100 list.
But what else was delicious / a little off-taste at this year's PICNIC and its theme of Collaboarive Creativity? Here's the PORTAL list of Pics'n Nics that tickled our taste buds, got our creative juices flowing and made us have seconds or second thoughts ...
· Soocial · Green Graffiti · Formula Zero · KaosPilots · Coolpolitcs · MYC4 · Itay Talgam · OpenAd · Ubercool · Artmiks · Month of Design · Marcel Wanders · Orange Contest · Sandbox
Soocial PICNIC
Take two wooden carts. Park them on the grass outside the main conference hall. Fill the wooden carts with the finest Choriso, mozzarella cheese, hummous and fresh bread. Install a couple of comfy armchairs. Get people to sit, laze in the sun, have a free picnic and beer with you. Invite them to ask why you're wearing T-shirts with a picture of David Hasselhoff and the slogan: "Hassle Free Networking". After all your name is Soocial and you'd rather spend your PR money on sharing food and ideas with other creative start-ups than on expensive delegate passes. People will remember you fondly and longer. They might even include you in their PICNIC review blog. Hands up for Sociaal – you guys made our day!!
While picnicking with the social Sociaal crowd one could wag tails with a couple of Green inititiatives and get a whole new perspective on why the grass could indeed be greener elsewhere. We loved PICNIC partner Green Graffiti. And Formula Zero. Okay, so we're already working with the latter and can't wait to get to work with the former. But imagine. Imagine zero emission race cars powered on hydrogen. Imagine paper-less advertising. Oh yes. It can be done. Heck, it is being done. If you don't want to be left out, check it out. And if we failed to mention your green initiative here, let us know. We might even be able to put you in touch with a serious broker who specialises in raising money for green projects. Though he might be busy playing slow-motion collaboration games with the KaosPilots (Michael, you're our suited hero!!).
Kaos Navigation Recipe
Mix 13 passionate warm hearts with 13 pairs of street-wise feet and 13 balanced but risk-taking minds. Add a keen interest in business, a good dose of playfulness and a generous portion of new business design. Put in the oven of action learning and allow to simmer until reduced to real-life projects smelling of social entrepreneurship roses. When ready to taste, notice the unique flavour of authenticity ... Team 2 of the KaosPilots Rotterdam landed at PICNIC and gave away free samples of their irresistible energy to change the game. By actually playing games. Unsuspecting delegates leaving sessions on social networking and new technology platforms were treated to challenging pyhsical interactive game scenarios exploring collaboration and teamwork outside the main conference hall (where all the interesting stuff at PICNIC seemed to be happening; see above, Soocial). No wonder the KaosPilots made it into the next day's edition of the PICNIC newspaper.
Kaos Pilots Check-In
Power Food
Coolpolitcs had invited for lunch. Alas!, finally an interactive session that arranged participants from different industries and backgrounds around eight tables and asked them to brainstorm the relationship between democracy, crowds, and technology. But first we were treated to a starter of MYC4 which struck us as a truly interesting, innovative way to auction for and invest in African business start-ups with a future. Coolpolitics deserve a massive tip for organising this session which I am inclined to spend directly on MYC4. Is it possible to end poverty by 2015? Judge for yourself and send us your thoughts. [picture]
CoolPolitics Power Lunch
Musical Main Course
He showed us Karajan. Bernstein. All the great conducters at work. And through careful and amusing examples and illustrations he took his audience on an exploration of leadership styles that is sure to trouble some managers for some time to come as their employees secretly glance at them, asking: Which one is she? The autocrat? The one who lifts a mere finger to lead? Or the one who truly makes music with us? Itay Talgam received a standing ovation for this sensitive and uplifting teaser from his "Maestro program". Lead less = dance more!
Cool Dessert
So what if it was forbidden to drink coffee during the break of this very last PICNIC panel Design on Demand? So what if the camera girl fainted soon after the "coffee break"? She was probably as desperate as the rest of us to make it to the after-party after three days of non-stop action. What persuaded us all to hold out a little longer were presentations by charming and articulate Katarina Skoberne of OpenAd and Michael Tchong's sardonic contemporary trend analysis. Ubercool indeed!
Calorie Cocktails
No PICNIC is complete without the hedonistic dancing that follows gluttonous feasts of collaborative creativity. The fuckin' groovin crowd totally delighted us on Thursday night with their secret invite-only shannanigans courtesy of Artmiks. Wherever people are spotted playing tennis with magazines crunched up into balls or visitors from Month of Design in Lubliana are persuaded to sing karaoke ... the hosts must be doing something right! In a similar vein we were astonished at the sheer quantity of cherry pickers at the PICNIC final party where we also bumped into some quality faces. One VIP who wishes to remain anonymous wisely provided me with free prosecco all night. My heart belongs to you, dear stranger! Marcel Wanders – chairman of the exciting Paint The World Orange branding competition - was there with his inimitable crowd of creatives, as were the people from Sandbox in the UK who informed us they'd just hired a KaosPilot graduate from Denmark, hurray!!
Cherry on the Cake
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