Sure, I’ll spell it out. What we do, here.
- Innovation consulting, for businesses and NGOs. (What does that mean? It’s a way to say let’s find the new, next thing. Together. The way we lead the conversations is more about discovering your way towards an insight you don’t even know yet, what it is. Because you don’t know what you don’t know, right? So this is where we can help. Design Kompany gives you a way to look within, and our 15+ years of experience in journalism to ask good questions, plus design for dozens of clients, helped us build the toolkit of how to do that well, for you. Use this service for consulting with DK to organically and naturally hit on your Next Big Idea. Save time!, and get to a new thing by talking over what is even possible.) [$$]
- Graphic design + brand identity, for business owners who have been operating for 5+ years. This is pretty straightforward if you are interested in re-designing what it is you are saying to the world about your ‘why’.’ It’s important to know that, and so we dig deep to get to the ‘unique value proposition.’ And then, we get to designing what it might look like, for you. Six sessions. [$$$]
- Design thinking workshops, designed for team-building, company groups or educators. It was a natural progression after we worked with a few people on identity design to be asked to deliver short workshops over several hours or several days, on how to think in creative ways. Zoom out. Get clear after you brainstorm and consider myriad angles. There is more to blog about this topic, for sure. Will do that. [$]
- I write Kismuth. My eWorshops in reflection, designed for individuals who are ready to start new things. Most of the people that I talk to on email these days are part of the ongoing conversations since 2014, to weekly prompts, that are designed to help you find your way to insight by journaling it out. Together. Kismuth is my writing site. [$]
Above are examples are the kinds of commissions DK are working on, currently.
New things ahead for the fall.
Naturally. Changing and growing, all the time. Agile is like that. I found something today that reminded me of how DK started anyway and why people said they liked being part of my studio’s programs, workshops, conversation parties, and even becoming clients. ‘You’re having fun.’
Fun is the point of it.
Innovation starts with play
According to A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change‘s authors, play is key. Douglas Thomas co-authored it with John Seely Brown.
Wikipedia says Thomas’ research was funded by several foundations and focuses on the relationship between virtual worlds and civic engagement and digital media and learning. Here is an excerpt:
‘What happens to learning when we move from the stable infrastructure of the twentieth century to the fluid infrastructure of the twenty-first century, where technology is constantly creating and responding to change? The answer is surprisingly simple.
‘Ironically, the relentless pace of change that is responsible for our disequilibrium is also our greatest hope. A growing digital, networked infrastructure is amplifying our ability to access and use nearly unlimited resources and incredible instruments while connecting with one another at the same time. However, the type of learning that is going on as a result looks so different from the kinds of learning described by most educational theorists that it is essentially invisible.’
Let’s discover more. Let’s connect. Let’s start talking. And let’s play.
Anyone in Phnom Penh who is curious about this, can register for The Third Place, here.
