#epic2014

Well the excitement of last week has taken its toll – or perhaps that’s just the jet lag. Now back in Berlin, I’m reminiscing our epic week, uploading pictures and re-reading scribbled notes – it’ll no doubt take me a lot longer to absorb it all.

I’d like to thank all of those who made it to my LEGO Serious Play® Workshop on Sunday. I had the pleasure of welcoming Ethnographers, Anthropologists, Designers and Researchers from Sao Paulo to Adelaide to exchange ideas in the form of those little colourful bricks we all loved so much as kids. Together we built metaphors and told stories of the trials and tribulations of the ‘ethno condition’, collaborating in a new way to delve deeper than your average conversational format.

Ever wonder what an “aha” moment could look like?

Well you’d expect your fair share of deep analysis in a room full of ethnographers wouldn’t you? Breaking things down into its building blocks was just the start of it – we had an ivory tower where the corporation is situated, befuddled by its users; the travelling ethnographers that tread treacherous waters and even the “Viking of Big Data” made an appearance.