Innovation Parkour

Innovation Parkour Field Lab at NetChange Week 2010 at MaRS

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:16:00 -0400

Innovation Parkour Field Lab at NetChange Week 2010 at MaRS

When it comes to innovation, practice is everything. Join on ...

Tue, 25 May 2010 08:30:22 -0400

When it comes to innovation, practice is everything. Join on June 9th, 2010 for a full day of Innovation Parkour at NetChange in Toronto, Canada. The best way to learn innovation is by doing it, and there’s no better way to learn the latest techniques in prototyping, team collaboration and field research than a day of Innovation Parkour. Spaces are limited, so sign up now!

Innovation Parkour Field Lab, 9 June in Toronto

Tue, 25 May 2010 08:26:58 -0400

Innovation Parkour Field Lab, 9 June in Toronto:

When it comes to innovation, practice is everything. Join in on June 9th, 2010 for a full day of Innovation Parkour at NetChange in Toronto, Canada. The best way to learn innovation is by doing it, and there’s no better way to learn the latest techniques in prototyping, team collaboration and field research than a day of Innovation Parkour. Spaces are limited, so sign up now!

Eureka Hunt by Jonah Lehrer

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:21:00 -0400

Eureka Hunt by Jonah Lehrer:

Lehrer’s incredible piece about the neuropsychology of insight from The New Yorker.

"There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. A man..."

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:17:33 -0400

“There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

- Bruce Lee

Innovation Parkour's 1st "Live Fire" Scramble

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:34:00 -0400

Yesterday, Innovation Parkour (IP) co-creators, Matt Milan and Michael Anton Dila led the first IP live fire exercise at the Net Change Week at MaRS. We had almost 40 participants, who were ultimately divided into 6 project teams. After an introduction to the core ideas of Innovation Parkour, the participants were set an assignment and given 60 min to complete it, report back to the rally-point and present their group’s response to the challenge. After making the disclosure that Innovation Parkour is a “social software” project in alpha and that they were the code base, the participants dove into a project to discovery and design a tour of Toronto’s Discovery District. We learned a lot. We had set out to challenge three myths of innovation: that’s it is always expensive, time-consuming and requires deep specialization. The group’s work and presentations after just an hour of working with people they’d just met were remarkable validations of some of our assertions and theory. As we toss this out to the group of participants I hope they’ll add their impressions, describe what they experienced and learned and that they’ll share more of their work/media from the session. Thanks all, for the lively discussion, thoughtful questions, your insights and your participation. Here’s the presentation we gave: Innovation Parkour at Net Change 10.06.09 Here’s the video of Team 3’s exploration of the piste of discovery. Net Change: Innovation Parkour on the go! from SiG @ MaRS on Vimeo

Tim Ferriss talks about how to overcome fear and accomplish...

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:07:00 -0400

Tim Ferriss talks about how to overcome fear and accomplish almost anything.

REAL PARKOUR HURTS…and so it is with real innovation: it...

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:04:50 -0400

REAL PARKOUR HURTS…and so it is with real innovation: it is neither pretty, easy or fun (at least not all the time). We don’t innovate just for laughs, but because we have a goal that we cannot imagine reaching any other way.

When Instrict Trumps Reason: Jonah Lehrer talks about the...

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:03:42 -0400

When Instrict Trumps Reason: Jonah Lehrer talks about the neuroscience of insight and the computational liitations of the prefontal cortex.

Innovation Parkour Presentation

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:49:00 -0400

Innovation Parkour Presentation

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Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:45:07 -0400

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Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:43:54 -0400

NO OBSTACLES: Navigating the world by leaps and bounds

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:39:17 -0400

NO OBSTACLES: Navigating the world by leaps and bounds:

Alec Wilkinson’s excellent article about Parkour, originally published in the 16 April, 2007 issue of The New Yorker.

Innovation Parkour at Net Change Week @ MaRS

Sat, 30 May 2009 22:34:00 -0400

Innovation Parkour at Net Change Week @ MaRS:

On 10 June, Matt & Michael will lead a “live fire” innovation parkour exercise for 36 people at the Net Change Week at MaRS in Toronto.

Matt Milan and Michael Dila talk about their concept for a...

Sat, 30 May 2009 21:54:17 -0400

Matt Milan and Michael Dila talk about their concept for a practice that could help individuals and teams develop a prepared mind for innovation.