LegoViews

Now that the blog is growing and there are few different leading topics, here’s an index with LEGO, LSP and LegoViews experiments I have been doing and keep doing. Stay tuned! If you prefer, you can browse the topics on the left side menu to find the relevant articles.

Co-creation | LegoInterviews & Activism | LegoInterviews & Arts | LegoViews – The story | LSP & the organisations | LSP in Education | Guest Posts | Events & Fun | LegoViews in the media

Co-creation & Digital:

• Measuring Digital Transformation [12/2017] What are the KPIs that really matter when we talk about Digital Transformation? How can we measure the impact of digital transformation initiatives?
• What is Digital Transformation? And why culture matters? [04/08/2017] The difference between digitisation, Digitalisation, and digital transformation are not always clear. And this causes a lot of confusion in how organisations are trying to evolve their obsolete operative models.
• The Customers Experience’s BlindSpot [10/03/20017] CX requires an ecosystem where all elements involved work in harmony. And this ecosystem includes both the people who are using or buying the product / service AND the people who support and care for the customers during every step of that journey.
• Millennials are going beyond the individualistic BabyBoomers [20/02/2017] What makes Millennials so different from Babyboomers? How LegoseriousPlay reveals these differences and the impact of these on CX.
• The responsibility of UX: generate Value. But what is Value? [07/03/2016] how can UX professionals generate value for brands and for users? Lego serious Play can help! includes slides from UX Denmark 2016.
• When NextGen UX and embodied cognition play seriously with Lego [11/02/2016] a podcast to reflect on Embodied cognition, UX, Lego serious Play, research methods.
• UX delivers strategy in action [20/11/2015] How UX is evolving from a design to a strategy discipline.
• The UX mindset: a quest for values and meanings [25/10/2015]
• Combining co-creation with UX and CX: a cubed experience! [05/07/2015]
• From bricks to innovation [05/07/2015] How bricks enhance innovation, and how playfulness is the way to innovate your business.
• Conversations, Experience Economy, UX, metaphors, & LSP [29/03/2015] Thoughts after my presentation at MEX15: how did we moved into the Experience economy and how LSP can support UX, enhance conversations through metaphors and storytelling and the effect of LSP on Innovation. Slides at the end of the article.
• No Accessibility, no UX [15/02/2015] Can we really consider UX and accessibility as separate disciplines?
• Stop Calling it Accessibility! [08/02/2015] It’s time to rethink the narrative and storytelling around Accessibility.
• Co-Creation: Designing With the User, For the User [21/12/2014] An excerpt from the Article Published on UxBooth about how cocreation affect the UX and CX industry.
• Co-creating user experiences through users’ engagement and empowerment [09/08/2014] Don’t use the user, engage and empower. Using co-creation to shape and build the future with users.
• Innovate through conversations [19/07/2014] What are the limits of UX today and how can co-creation be beneficial to UX? Thoughts and slides from my speech at Ladies That UX London.
• Co-creation: In search of the wrong answers [29/06/2014] Co-creation overcomes the industrialised approach of one sole right answers. In the wrong answers we were not able to express earlier, there’s much more truth and creativity.
• User requirements & Co-creation: an Agile approach [30/05/2014] How co-creation can make User centred design more effective and how it fits within the Agile approach.
• CROWDSOURCING ≠ CO-CREATION [28/05/2014] The differences between co-creation and crowdsourcing. On Editorial IV.
• Co-creation: the power of conversations / Part 4 [22/05/2014] Who should take part in a co-creation workshop? And which methods and approaches can be used?
• Co-creation: the power of conversations / Part 3  [15/05/2014] What happens when crowdsourcing goes wrong? And how co-creation can be blended with crowdsourcing?
• Co-creation: the power of conversations / Part 2 [09/05/2014] What is not co-creation? What are Open innovation, Mass creation, crowd sourcing, User generated content, and co-production?
• Co-creation: the power of conversations / Part 1 [03/05/2014] What is Co-creation? From the Clue train Manifesto to the understanding of what co-creation is in today’s organisations’ world.
• LEGO Serious Play & Co-creation [21/04/2014] LSP is an effective way to engage stakeholders and uses in a co-creation experience. Thoughts, experiences, and reflections.
• How can co-creation LEGO Serious Play, Privacy, UX & Data quality be connected? [13/04/2014] How can LSP, Privacy, Co-Creation, UX and data quality be connected to improve organisations’ practice and promote innovation?

LegoInterviews & Activism:

• The filmmaker is a Tool. An interview with Milena Kaneva [04/07/2013] ~ An interview with filmmaker and director of Total denial, Milena Kaneva about filmmaking, inspiration and stories. Inspiring read!
• Italy: an economy based on free labour [02/07/2013] ~ An article about the economic situation in Italy on the London Progressive Journal.
• Jean-Philippe Tremblay: filmmaking is about the team [28/06/2013] ~ Film director and writer J.P. Tremblay talks about what is filmmaking. A good lesson about what does it mean to make a film.
• Slavko Martinov:  The antidote to Propaganda? Question everything! [24/06/2013] ~ The most political and propaganda related part of S. Martinov interview is published exclusively on the London Progressive Journal.
• Deconstructing information: an interview with Slavko Martinov, filmmaker [20/06/2013] ~ Slavko Martinov, filmmaker and director of Propaganda, talks about information and the need to question everything.
• Slavko Martinov: Filmmaking is ideas and questions [14/06/2013] ~ the first part of the LegoInterview with Slavko Martinov, Film Director who talks about filmmaking.
• Palestine from the Israeli Perspective: an endless list of missed opportunities [17/05/2013] ~ Ariel, an Israeli citizen, recalls all the opportunities that both Palestinian and Israeli missed.
• Palestine’s existence depends on respect and on our children [10/05/2013] ~ A LegoView with Dr Rauf Azar, director of Beit Sahour medical Centre in Bethlehem (West Bank). An intense testimony of the Palestinian situation. The full length version has been published by the London Progressive Journal on May 26th 2013.
• LegoViews: A video from Palestine  [07/11/2012] ~ A video of a Lego Interview with Aysar from Deisha Refugee Camp (Bethlehem). Filmed and edited by Gaetano Veninata and Daniela Sala.
• The poetic justice of a lost Brick in Jerusalem [14/10/2012] ~ Riol from Jerusalem talks about Israel the difficulties to deal with Western countries. A dense and tense experience with the bricks.
• The soft Colonialism’s Obsession [29/05/2012] ~ A LegoView with Adam Levik, from the CIF Watch in Jerusalem. Learning about a zionist perspective with LEGO bricks.
• Michael Warshawski: walls and democracy [12/03/2012] ~ The complete interview with Mikado Warschawski, a pro-Palestine activist published on the London Progressive Journal.
  
• Israel and the Democracy building process from an Anti-Zionist Perspective [16/02/2012] ~ an Interview with Micheal Warschawski, a pro-palestine, anti-occupation activist, co-founder of the Alternative Information Center. With Lego Bricks.
• Holes, walls and bricks: Palestine with Israeli eyes [05/02/2012] ~ A LegoInterview with Michael, a true cosmopolitan citizen living in Tel-Aviv. A thought provoking experience.
• This Crazy Thing Called Palestine [21/01/2012] ~ Aysar is a young volunteer at Dheisheh Refugee Camp, in Bethlehem. A Lego Interview reveals this view on Palestine. A crazy thing.
• The unbearable lightness of bricks: the Israeli hazard [12/01/2012] ~ JK explains me what is Israel using the Bricks. And the bricks revealed unexpected truth, proving their power.
• The Occupy movement: the light and fluid warrior [10/12/2011] ~ Ollie, 23, an activist at Occupy London talks with LEGO in an amazing interview explaining the crisis. A clear and deep view.
• Goodbye yellow brick road [30/11/2011] ~ A Lego Interview with Hellen, 17 years old who lives in St Paul and takes part to the Occupy movement. The dreams of the hopes for a better world reveled through the bricks.

LegoInterviews & Arts:

• “Colour exists by itself. It’s the human being who needs colour.” LegoView with G. Cagnazzo. [24/05/2013] ~ Gianni Cagnazzo talks about colour, nature and human beings… with Lego bricks.
• Architecture comes in Black & White – LegoView with F. Valan [03/05/2013] – The second part of Francesca Valan, industrial designer and colour expert, talks about contemporary Architecture.
• LegoView with Arch. Ciro Pirondi on Heritage, Architecture and Nature [19/04/2013] – The second part of the Legoview with Ciro Pirondi talking about Heritage, Architecture and Nature. Full transcription of the interview and Video available both at the end of the article and in the video section.
• Ciro Pirondi talks about Oscar Niemeyer [29/03/2013] Architect Ciro Pirondi, friend and collaborator with Oscar Niemeyer in a Lego Interview. The first part focuses on Oscar Niemeyer work and philosophy. The full transcription of the LEGO View and video available both at the end of the article and in the video section.
• Colour: the revolutionary emotional link. LegoView with F. Valan [09/03/2013] ~ Francesca Valan, an industrial designer who works with colours, tells what colours are. Using Lego bricks.
• A LegoView about architecture and colour  [12/12/2012] ~ a clip of a LegoView with Francesca Valan, Italian industrial designer, passionate about colour and with a very special relation with LEGO… to be released soon.

LegoViews – The story:

• LegoViews or Legoviews? [21/09/2012] ~ some clarifications on the terms and the method.
• A Christmas Carol: LegoViews’ Ghost of an Idea [24/12/2012] ~ This is the short story of how all this has begun. It was 3 years ago, because ideas needs time to get in shape…

LSP & the organisations:

• The relationship between Business & Design: the Lego Serious Play case [20/05/2016] Presented at Cass Creativity at City University London, this seminar explores the relationship between Business and Design and the curious case of LSP.
• Experiencing LEGO SERIOUS PLAY like a speed dating! [17/05/2015] Video of my presentation at MEX
• The collective mind of Serious Play [20/06/2014] What is Lego Serious Play? Reflection and a Presentation.
• Jamming with LEGO SERIOUS PLAY: the 5 variables of Workshop Design [07/06/2013] ~ Designing workshops for extreme conditions is a great training: facilitating for a Global Jam lead to a number of useful tips about workshop design.
• Organisations as organisms: consciousness and wellness  [26/04/2013] ~ What are organisations? If organisations are organisms, living and conscious entities, organisations’ health and wellbeing takes a new leap.
• Put knowledge into action and build organisational wisdom: LSP and DIKW [06/04/2013] ~ Organisations’ wisdom is the ultimate goal. By looking at the DIKW (Data Information Knowledge Wisdom) pyramid, an LSP connection emerged…
• Unveiling Knowledge: pre-linguistic experiences and metaphors [02/03/2013] ~ Thoughts about the impact of physical experiences in the way we conceptualise and express our ideas.
• Play to build organisations’ social capital [23/02/2013] ~ If organisations are social entities, how can we capitalise on such a resource and overcome the individualistic approach?
• Building Knowledge [17/02/2013] ~ What is knowledge? How can we build our knowledge and become learners? Reflecting on the construction of knowledge and the maieutic approach.
• Situated identities: a safety net to serious play [10/02/2013]: The difference between playing safe and playing seriously lies literally in the ability to play. Situated identities are the key element to enhance our ability to put ourselves into play.
• Harkness Table and LSP: Differences and similarities [02/02/2013] ~ Capitalising on teams and on collaborative processes is not something new in education. A comparison between a maieutic approach with LEGO and the Harkenss Table method.
• Connecting the Bricks [21/01/2013] ~ Reflecting on Metaphors and embodied experiences.
• Insights on the method: building models to explore ideas [07/01/2013] ~ Lego-based interviews as a challenge to classic journalism. More thoughts.
• Israel and Palestine through the Looking-Bricks  [05/01/2012] ~ Impressions and thoughts of the experience in Palestine and Israel with my Lego Bricks. Can people be scared of LEGO bricks? Yes, they can.
• LegoViews and Socrates’ Midwife [16/12/2011] ~ LegoViews as a form of modern maieutics to discover concepts and ideas hidden somewhere in our mind.

LSP in Education:

• When Architects-to-be play with LEGO… [28/12/2012] The video of the experience with Students in Architecture experiencing a truly maieutic experience through LSP applied to meaning making.
• Architects’ challenge: Building ideas with LEGO bricks! [18/12/2012] The description of LEGO and architecture relationship and the story of how LSP was experimented within students at the Faculty of Architecture – University of Ferrara.
• The Unbearable Lightness of Ideas: LWs goes to University! [25/09/2012] Mixing educational needs with LSP potential: this is how the experience at University of Ferrara has begun…

Guest posts:

• Experiencing LEGO Serious Play: the point of view of a participant [12/06/2014] Marek Pawlowski’s reflections and thoughts about his experience with LSP. Worth reading!

Events & Fun:

LegoViews in the media:

• 16th June 2014: Lego – building concepts not models!: Nania Tait reflects on the LSP experience at Hot Source (Norwich) facilitated by Patrizia Bertini
• 12th June 2014: Local Lego answers creative industry challenges: Marek Pawlowski’s thoughts about the LSP experience facilitated by Patrizia Bertini.
• May 2013: Mac Talk: La creativita’ seria dei LEGO: Francesco Pignatelli interviews Patrizia Bertini. Applicando Maggio 2013. Download The Pdf file of the interview!
• 16th April 2013: T3 GAZETTE: Robert Rasmussen on the LSP meeting in Billund.
• 27th March 2013: La creativita’ seria dei LEGO [MakeTank]: Francesco Pignatelli interviews Patrizia Bertini to explore the power of the bricks to enhance creativity. Interview in Italian.
• 14th January 2012: SeriousPlayPro.com: The unbearable lightness of bricks: the Israeli hazard. Robert Rasmussen post on the official LSP facilitators’ blog.
• 20th December 2011: T3 GAZETTE – “Occupy Wall Street” with LSP!
• 03th February 2012: T3 GAZETTE – Can I LEGOView you?