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In September 2006, the Heads Together team downed tools for a week of thinking.
The Company has a great reputation built on twenty years of doing stuff; stuff that looks fantastic and people really seem to enjoy and sometimes it really changes things ... but why? And what? And what should our focus be for the next ten years and beyond.
To help us to think (it doesn't come naturally!) we invited a very special friend of ours ...
Bert Mulder is a founding partner of De InformatieWerkPlaats (The Information Workplace) in The Hague and Professor of Information, Technology and Society at the Hague University. We first met Bert back in 1997 when he presented his thoughts at the first of the series of Common Threads conferences run by the Centre for Creative Communities. He is a brilliant, thoughtful man whose work has spanned learning, communities, information and systems for decades. On an informal, irregular basis he has been a mentor to us – always asking the simple, poignant question; challenging our assumptions.
In 2006 we invited Bert to spend the week with us, to talk with us and with the people we work with. It produced a cauldron of reflection, and ideas and plans - culminating in a seminar at our offices on Friday 22nd September 2006.
You can listen to the full seminar and questions by connecting to the mp3 stream
You can view the accompanying presentation - as a quicktime movie
Bert also refers to a paper that he worked on as a member of the European Cultural Parliament – presented to José Manuel Durao Barroso, President of the EU Commission – you can download a pdf version of "Culture, the heart of a knowledge-based economy"
If you have any responses or thoughts as a result of either attending the seminar or listening online - please email us.
Have a look at what other people have said at Thinking Reflected
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