Inspiring ideas from TED: Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.
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Great to see this as it chimes nicely with a project we’re developing, that, in it’s own modest way aims to use game and competition elements mechanisms to change behavior and hopefully get people to re-discover the joys of local things, for local people.
Category Archives: Transition Town
Video of Trashcatchers’ carnival Tooting
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Quick edit I did of my footage from Trashcatchers’ carnival tooting and vox pops on what people liked about Tooting and what they thought could be better. This was shown at the Big Launch – unleashing we had at the Samaj Hall.
Farmers Market as a stall in an existing market
A thought. We have a good market in Tooting with fish, butchers, tools, clothes, food, phone, pets, etc. It seems busy and well used. In most parts of London, that I have seen, farmers markets are set-up as a separate ghetto for middle class people to wander around for bits and pieces before they go Waitrose. If stalls became free in Tooting market could they be occupied by people selling as local as possible produce?
Trashcatchers’ Carnival Tooting
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Here’s the first of the videos I shot and edited for Transition Town Tooting. We’re creating a carnival that involves art groups, local school, community groups and individuals. One of the workshops for the carnival is captures here.
Tooting transition town unleashing
Attending a planning meeting today for Tooting Transition Town’s unleashing and looked at a hall that we might use. The event is on 14th July. Lots of great ideas for the name and different people and activities that could be included. My task is to research other Transition town groups and see why they did or did not use ticketing for the event. So it’ll be interesting to see how it worked out for them and see if the advantages out-weigh the disadvantages.
Lots of work to do, including shooting some video vox pops of “What’s your Tooting?” to make a video of to publicise the event, it has to be something uniquely Tooting.
I really like the idea of getting people to collaborate on the day with games of Consequences were a small number of people collaborate to imagine a thing or change in Tooting. Each group literally unfolds their idea.
Steph from Totnes Transition Town dropped by on her walk – in flip flops!- across the country visiting Transition Town groups.
Steph visits Tooting from Totnes Transition Town