How do we break down the barriers to collaboration when we gather?

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🎙️How do we change the status quo?

Conventions tend to be, well, conventional. Mingling people in rooms for a few days has been the default for a long time: the challenge is getting the delegates on board to try something new.

Mara Sandoval designs the gatherings for high-level decision makers. For her, experience design plays a key role in generating outcomes when people gather and it needs to be centre stage in the planning process rather than an afterthought. She calls on

🔹Alex McLean, CEO & Co-Founder, Alveole and

🔹Cindy Gallop, Founder & CEO, MakeLoveNotPorn

to join her exploration of the burning question: How do we break down the barriers to collaboration when we gather?

Covered in this episode

• Being a great guest
• Anthropology and graphic design in content and space
• Design as a theory of change
• Bringing collaborative design to boardrooms
• The need for a common language
• Why are we gathering?
• The pivotal role of human interaction
• An easy way to encourage collaboration
• typical conferences = boring
• Bruce Mau incomplete manifesto for change
• Typical conferences
• Power of intention as participant
• The people you need in the room

Host: Christine Renaud, Braindate

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This episode of The More the Brainier was produced by Christine Renaud and Jane Gibb. Editing and sound engineering by Jenya Sverlov and Chris Leon.