No dia 18 de dezembro, aconteceu em Porto Alegre um evento diferente onde aproximadamente 50 pessoas apresentam suas idéias e compartilham conhecimento em palestras rápidas de 5 minutos.

A Desconferência Rápida abre um novo formato de evento usando Lightning Talks* como plataforma de conteúdo, e fazendo com que todos os 50 participantes sejam palestrantes.

O principal objetivo deste evento foi fomentar inovação e bons relacionamentos com atividades interativas e cabeças brilhantes que merecem 5 minutos de atenção.

Com o tema de empreendedorismo, pode-se ver e ouvir designers, programadores, empresários e professores trazendo suas ideias, experiências e perspectivas para uma troca de conhecimento energizada com pessoas que realmente querem fazer e acontecer mundo à fora.

*Lightning Talks — 5 minutos livres
Dizem ter sido criado ainda em 1997 em uma conferência de programadores Python, com o intuito de preencher algumas horas vagas com assuntos gerados pelo público presente. Talvez por sua origem, é um formato muito comum em eventos de tecnologia: às vezes com agenda pré-definida de palestrantes, e outras formando o line-up em tempo real, passando o microfone para quem tiver interesse de falar a seguir. As Lightning Talks são o formato mais genérico de palestras rápidas, e não tem nenhuma organização específica por trás da sua criação e imagem, deixando livre para incorporação em qualquer evento, conferência ou desconferência.

As Lightning Talks têm formato livre, não precisando ser de um tema ou assunto específico e podendo contar com slides, ou apenas flip charts, ou só falada sem nenhum material de apoio. Um timer conta o tempo para todos verem, no final dos 5 minutos, o público bate palmas e a próxima apresentação toma lugar.

Palestra ministrada durante o Encontro do Jovem Empreendedor Digital wwY — do SEBRAE/MG — em Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, em 5 de setembro de 2010.

O conceito do evento já começava a ser definido no próprio nome do encontro, wwY, com o “Y” de YOUNG e de Geração Y (nascidos a partir da década de 80), tomando conta da rede, mostrando que a incorporou.

Este foi um evento que procurou abordar a web de forma lúdica, trabalhando o caráter jovem, tecnológico e moderno desse público.

www.sebraemg.com.br/feiradoempreendedor

A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers.

Este livro foi construído como uma aventura conjunta de 470 pessoas de 45 países diferentes, durante um período de 6 meses, sob a liderança de Alexander Osterwalder.

A cada quinzena estas 470 pessoas recebiam capítulos do livro junto com propostas de alterações (que de fato eram consideradas).

O que realmente chama a atenção neste livro é que os seus autores, ao criarem um livro de modelos de negócios inovadores, fizeram o que poucos fazem: aplicaram o método sugerido ao próprio livro.

Ou seja, o livro teve um modelo de receitas de adesões ao projeto, foi impresso de forma independente e sua distribuição é pela Amazon.com

O resultado é simplesmente impecável em todos os aspectos, conteúdo, abordagem, diagramação, design…

Poucos livros conseguem reunir tantas dicas e métodos realmente aplicáveis para o desenvolvimento de novos modelos de negócio.

Confira abaixo um preview do livro ou compre pela amazon.

By Andrian Kreye*

There are few places oozing tradition like Oxford’s Randolph Hotel. During the TEDGlobal conference you would pass the restaurant where tea sandwiches are served on ornate étagères and enter a thickly carpeted room full of shelves filled with the works of progressive thinkers. The local bookshop had set up a satellite store for the event. Right there against the wall, a futuristic gadget was on display in a fancy jewel case. It looked like a military-grade USB stick made of brushed metal. A friendly gentleman from Boston explained that this was the Genome Key, made by his company, Knome. For a handsome fee, they would decipher your complete genome and deliver it on this small stick. Your biological present stored for a “gentech” future.

The Genome Key had all the markings of a great design object: the metallic sheen, the shiny box, the futuristic lines. But it wasn’t the look that made the Genome Key such a great example of intriguing design. It was the system surrounding and supporting this storage device; the aesthetic allure was just an afterthought. The Genome Key can record one’s complete genome, not just the part that is usable today. This avoids making it a soon-to-be-obsolete technology. Also, all of your genetic data is exclusively stored on this device only, so customers don’t have to worry that their most intimate information will be hacked from an institution’s database. The Genome Key, albeit far from a mass consumer product, embodied the new role of design that had become evident during the TED talks.

It has always been hard to explain what effect TED has on global trends. Each conference can be something like a high-voltage engine that gives ideas a velocity that propels them into the public mind with the impact of a Tesla Roadster on the shoulder of a clogged freeway. People take notice. Revolutionary ideas about design might not have originated at TED, but they did get the necessary exposure to gain further thrust.

Seismic shifts in thinking never happen as suddenly as an earthquake. The first tremors can be felt years or even decades before. As usual, a few threads materialized at this year’s TEDGlobal conference under the topic “The Substance of Things Not Seen.” None exemplified the essence of TED better than the paradigmatic shift in thinking about design.

This change of perspective might not be perceived as such a seismic shift in the design world itself, a world that has never been monolithic. Still, ask most people about design, and they will tell you that it belongs in the realm of aesthetics. And who could blame them for having this perception? Even basic texts, from Martin Heidegger to Walter Benjamin to Theodor Adorno, say the same thing: Art and design will change how the world looks, not how the world is.

There are exceptions. In 1980, at the “Forum Design”“ exhibition in the Austrian city of Linz, the Swiss art historian and sociologist Lucius Burckhart introduced his essay “Design is Invisible.” He didn’t accept design as an art form. He explained how design can only function if put in the context of a real-life situation. A city. An intersection. A workplace. Burckhart wasn’t just ahead of his time. He embodied the zeitgeist of the day. In 1980, design had just started to make inroads into general society. Chain stores such as IKEA and Habitat introduced design to the suburban home. Later, magazines such as Wallpaper turned the refined knowledge of design experts into mass-market values, just as Julia Child transformed the elitist art of French cooking into an everyday skill.

What design seemed to never lose, despite its populist efforts — from Bauhaus to Design Within Reach— was the stigma of being either a luxury or a means of seduction by industries trying to sell electronic gadgets or housewares. Marx’s essay on commodity fetishism kept the public’s perception of design hostage. This ideological struggle is as apparent as ever in the fight over the future of New York’s Ground Zero between the architects Daniel Libeskind and David Childs. Libeskind had an artistic vision with symbolist grandeur. Childs just wanted to make the site a working part of the city.

What had been a contradiction in New York has become a new way of thinking that unites two formerly antagonistic ways of viewing design. What has emerged at TED conferences through the years is a vision of design that does not limit itself to the parameters of form and function. Design has become the engine of innovation, giving mere ideas shape and substance. It has evolved into the highest form of communication, turning ideas into solutions. In fact, giving the TED Prize to the architect Cameron Sinclair in 2006 was a milestone event. Here was a young man with a vision of creating a network for open-source architecture to solve problems in emergency situations such as disasters and wars.

The work Sinclair has done with Architecture for Humanity has eased the suffering of thousands in the areas affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami, in the hurricane zone of Katrina, and in refugee centers around the world. He still embodies what many of this year’s TEDGlobal speakers put forth in Oxford.Ross Lovegrove defined his design as inspired by evolution. Janine Benyus discussed biomimicry, a theory of design in which man-made objects imitate the lessons of nature. Mathieu Lehanneur told us he had been designing this way without ever having heard about Benyus’ concepts.

Design has become a way of finding solutions. Aesthetics is just a part of this process. Maybe in a few decades we will look back at TEDGlobal and remember that shiny stick next to the bookshelves. For future generations, the Genome Key might very well become for the genetic age what the Walkman was for today’s digital age: the forefather of a revolution of omnipresent information permeating every part of our lives.

*Andrian Kreye edits the Arts and Essays section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung daily in Germany and was one of a handful of international journalists invited to attend TEDGlobal.

This article was originaly posted on design mind