Our Shared Playground: An Interview with Michael Schrage

Michael Schrage is co-director of the MIT Media Lab’s e-markets initiative and author of Serious Play. In this interview, he elaborates on his concept of shared space and it’s use in fostering innovation and collaboration.

Michael Schrage

Facilitators are improvisers. They are instruments of the other people in the room. However…often facilitation is too conversation-driven, and occurs without shared space, without the capture and feedback mechanisms to amplify the effectiveness of the facilitation. But, facilitation is not enough for collaboration; you need to have shared spaces. You need to have media where the ideas can be captured and represented and those representations … [ Read more ]

John Seely Brown

John Seely Brown is the chief scientist of Xerox Corporation. He was the former director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). A major focus of John’s research over the years has been in human learning and in the creation of knowledge ecologies for creating radical innovation. He is also co-author of The Social Life of Information with Paul Duguid.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men of genius sometimes work best when they work least.

Michael Gelb

Creativity is the result of the marriage of logic and imagination.

Michael Gelb

Perception follows purpose.

George Bernard Shaw

People hate thinking–they do almost anything to avoid it. I have created an international reputation for myself by doing it once or twice a week.

Great Minds: A Thoughtful Interview with Michael Gelb

“When we talk about thinking, we think that we know what we’re talking about, but there are many different kinds of thinking. When I say people don’t know how to think I mean they haven’t been trained to think in different ways. The simplest distinction is between critical thinking and creative thinking. The most powerful thinkers are able to integrate those two modes. That’s one … [ Read more ]