ONE PARAGRAPH SUMMARY:
Collaborative Ingenuity is a free for all, open and supportive environment for all knowledge worker-types (creatives and geeks, students, freelancers and full-timers) to get his/her own project done and, perhaps most importantly, get feedbacks from other disciplines.
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Collaborative Ingenuity is a free for all forum that lets everyone come to work on any project of his/her choosing that day—with an underwritten agreement that each participant must agree to help everyone to the best of their ability.
While this concept is comparable to co-working, the fact that we have everybody from graphic designer, web developer to account planner (we're looking for more diversity) means that everyone will benefit from having feedbacks from folks who are experts in other things. So the designer's print ad will benefit from the planner's research ability, the planner's website analysis would benefit from the developer's expertise, etc.
Collaborative Ingenuity believes that new ideas are always born, and sparks always fly when different fields of knowledge intersect and help each other.
We do it weekly; but since the 29th coincides with Startupalooza, there's a possibility that we might take a break for a week.
The 'current project' depends of the people who show up. The whole idea of C.I. is to work on your own project while benefitting from everyone else's input. We usually have several Art Institute students and brashCreative members working on a student project or ad campaign. I am planning to tackle a website design or two, myself.
It's hard to find the perfect time! I know many people with full time jobs couldn't make it during the week, but some people may not want to work on the weekend either.
Maybe try both and see what happens? I probably can't make it to this one, but it sounds like fun and i'd love to come to one in the future.
Tomorrow's session will be quite informal, as I think that only a small number of people would be able to make it (Mr. Duvander, are you going?) Hopefully, it will be both fun and inspiring.