Kickstarting Collaborative Design: Exploring Social Media Tools to Fuel Creative Action (Part 1 of 3)
Searching for Global Engagement
So for the last week we've been posting our initial four “ID Scale” drawings on Steemit and are ecstatic about the response we've gotten. These were are very first works we ever did in Berlin, in the midst of excitement and completely new experiences, and have become the core foundation of our future work and studio mission.
All Scales of our ID
After we completed the initial round of this series, we immediately struck the question “how can we involve a greater community?” These drawings were stories in process of places, objects, and memories that we were translating onto paper. We found intrinsic value in the fact that it was collaborative, not goal-based, and 100% unexpected. Could we bring that energy to others around the world?
The Good ‘ol Days when we were the #1 Creative Project
As our first major step in working beyond our studio walls, we decided that KICKSTARTER was the way to go. The crowd-funding website had already done wonders for technological and musical products, could it support a diverse and engaging artistic endeavor?
With that challenge, we finalized on a submission method where we would ask people who helped fund us to submit their favorite places of memory with a short description. After we would receive a photo or place on the map, we aimed to transfuse them all together into a collective imagination.
https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/52539/video-57538-h264_high.mp4
Link to our Kickstarter Video
That was our mission and the response was astounding. We received over 109 unique places and were hit with the challenge that was escalating beyond our expectation.
Tomorrow, we'll go through our working process and show you products of our work!
If you want to read our original process and Kickstarter proposal, you can do so here