Bumping / Coimbatore, India
“Ideas fuel cities” because the physical proximity created by cities create situations for people to interact and exchange ideas, through networks of people at work and play. Cities create the conditions and the societal networks for ideas to be implemented. Places matter because of the mix of people. The mix and interaction creates conflicts, create ideas, creates strategies at the edges.
Workspaces create ideas through the interactions created by the physical design and layout of the workplace. Companies create the conditions for ideas to be implemented through providing resources and organizing around goals and core competencies. (1)
Companies are really just combinations of people, in the end: People bumping into each other, systematically, randomly, haphazardly, pointedly, positively, negatively, combining to interact and create products, solutions, strategies, processes, exchanges.
What is your company creating? Are they creating value? Are they creating conflict, bumping up against constraints, stretching the boundaries of design, business models, customer expectations?
What are you bumping into? Are you isolated or engaged? What constraints are you bumping up against? Are you creating strategies for today or tomorrow? Are you making choices?
“When I am no longer controversial I will no longer be important.’
- Gustave Courbet
If you’re not making choices, you’re not creating innovative solutions. Bump into something.
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(1) It’s an open debate at the moment.
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