Circle of Blue

We have been working with CoB, an extaordinary platform for environmental change, on it's long term strategic development. 

Circle of Blue, in short, is a resilient, evolving template, purposefully constructed as the 21st century news and communications center that is capable of both understanding and leading the global responses to immense challenges, tracking them and elevating the solutions.  Circle of Blue does this by producing dramatic, compelling evidence of the results and the solutions. Circle of Blue is the only communications organization that integrates front-line journalism, design, science, ideation and connected leadership.

EOL Learning and Education Group Workshop

Gail will be facilitating a Workshop with the EOL Learning and Education Group on November 5th and 6th in Cambridge. 

Our challenge is to develop a website or portal that makes the Encyclopedia of Life content and related educational activities and resources accessible to a variety of audiences.

We love the long-term vision of EOL. Definitely a worthy project!

"Summer Davos" in Dalian, China

10-12 September 2009

Todd joined with more than a dozen of his professional colleagues in The Value Web to support the World Economic Forum's WorkSpace collaborative sessions at the 3rd Annual Meeting of New Champions. The WorkSpace hosted 11 sessions this year, ranging from "Groundbreaking Ideas for Social Change" to "How Good is your Judgement."

This Moment in Time

18-19 March 2009
Exploring the role of designers in a time between the parenthesis.

With The Value Web, Tomorrow Makers led a 2-day workshop that brought together designers, thought leaders and change makers to explore, design and collaborate in bringing forth the new paradigm. This invitational event included participants from throughout The Value Web's business ecosystem. An assortment of content has been shared via Facebook, Twitter, and various blogs, including here on the Tomorrow Makers site.

International Design Alliance Strategy Session

13-14 September 2008
A joint effort of Tomorrow Makers and MG Taylor creates a 1.5 day, phase-transition inducing experience for IDA.

The International Design Alliance (IDA) is a strategic alliance between three international bodies for design, respectively representing communication design (Icograda), industrial design (Icsid) and the interior designers/architects (IFI). The three organizations represent different facets of a shared profession, and thus bring very different cultures into the the long term vision and strategy.
 
The opportunity at the meeting in September was to find a common vision for the future of the IDA and agreement on structure and operational model.

A joint effort between Matt (MG Taylor) and Gail (Tomorrow Makers) created a one and one half day experience to help the IDA induce a phase transition, getting them beyond cultural differences to discover the essential part each body brings to the table and how to combine these in a synergistic way.

Matt facilitated the Montreal meeting with the assistance of Ryan Romsey, independent videographer and MGT network member. By all accounts, it was successful.  Gail was able to remain at home, having taken a central role in the design, and recover from her surgery. 

The opportunity to work with this design alliance came through The Value Web, who recommended the Taylors. Ongoing work with INDEX: and The World Economic Forum brought The Value Web to IDA's attention.