The Anti-Brief Workshops (Part 2 of 3)

This 4-hour workshop is part of the Anti-Brief series. It will be held on the 11th of August, 12:00-16:00 BST (13:00-17:00 CET).

In this workshop, we will teach you different visualisation techniques to spark systemic thinking and action. It will help you to gain new insights about your work or the work you do for others. We call this workshop “Conversational Dimensions” because a new visualisation is a new perspective that invites others to reflect with you. It is a conversational design.

What are the Anti-Brief Workshops?

If the brief sets us up for the work we will do, the anti-brief questions our motivations, what we will do, how we will do it and with who. In a world where we are dehumanising, suffocating and poisoning ourselves to death, what kind of brief is appropriate? If the brief is anything less than fundamentally redesigning our economic systems, is it just a waste of time? How would your work change under a different worldview? Perhaps you are a professional designer or perhaps you are someone working in the field of finance, business or systems change. What is it that you need to unlearn and learn? We don’t think any single profession has the answer or can do the learning alone. Instead we need to work(shop) together. This is why we are organising the Anti-Brief Workshops.

There are 3 linked workshops in the series:

1. Re-Designing the Economy: Why do we need to and why will it involve every profession?
2. Conversational Dimensions: How can we expand and deepen multi-dimensional thinking?
3. Designing Dialogues: How can we shift from communication design to conversation design?

You can join any of the workshops as a standalone session, but ideally we recommend participating in all three as each compliments and builds on elements of the others.