Creativity Cafe: A Multimedia Edutainment-Broadcast Center and Community Town Hall
Peter H. Rosen
* Comprehensive — a clear demonstration of holistic systems thinking.
Problem I am responding to: KNOWLEDGE UNDER-UTILIZATION
80% of people everywhere, do not have online access. Most are preoccupied with survival and/or not aware of innovations and resources that could help them or the challenges that may affect them. Worse the positions taken by Government leaders and their representatives are beyond the understanding of the lay person who have little or no understanding of economics
on a local, no less global scale. These people have no say and no way to take unified action outside of government representation which in America is mostly concerned with the voice of the wealthy.
If a Creativity Cafe Environment and agenda take over what is now a movie theater, in every global city, these existing venues could easily be turned into a community meeting places with connection to the internet offering the vast teaching materials available online to those with little or know knowledge of such things. Furthermore, mentors will find out each persons challenge and help them solve their issue via connection with local resources and people who have pledged to be of service to others in the CCafe venue and community.
Our biggest global problems are people not being educated and the under-utilization of resources. By making education fun, entertaining and compelling, all patrons in Creativity Cafe (and the surrounding community at least) will be served no matter what level of tech saavy or non interest. Patrons will still be served what is is they need to succeed with everyones blessings, because of PRONOIA: http://creativity.net/pronoia.html
Creativity Cafe is designed to give peoples everywhere a loud voice in expressing their view of the issues and to connect easily via facilitated networking with others in the venue who might serve them.
Multimedia mentors will describe local and global issues and potential solutions. Everyone coming into the venue will be authenticated making the venue a safe haven for young people to hang out in and learn in fun ways... and strutt their creative prowess interactively on the bigs video screens, play with laser lights and explore their creative sides; mostly surpressed in todays educational institutions.
General systems are blinded to real repair of the obvious dysfunction of government and stewardship of Earth. With a Creativity Cafe in each town to act as the trim tab, local folk will have a place to give guidance and support for those daring to be, think and ACT differently for the betterment of all.
Creativity Cafe will be a venue for those dedicated to making a difference and nurturing themselves, each other and our world. We have grown beyond nationalistic forms of government. We have the Internet now. People can have better understanding and say in their world if they could only understand how to use this new tool and multimedia expressions. Creativity Cafe will connect them with the knowledged or those who will assist in giving voice the the peoples will!
* Anticipatory —
The world is changing so fast. The people need a way to dynamically monitor and understand the world changes (global warming) and the political and economic powers that control our very destiny. Creativity Cafe mentors and multimedia created by local folks in their own language will be able to address and filter global issues with the indiginous cluturel in mind.
The lay person needs to have an unbiased source of understandable news and an overview of how people locally are impacted. Government is mostly interested in power, control and money, leaving the the lay person (below a certain economic threshold) out of the discussion, viewing them as a troublesome thorn in the side of rich and powerful (that are better kept in fear and economic stress), to make sure they are too preoccupied to pay attention to how their country is operating and being run.
Creativity Cafe computer graphics and EarthStation area is being designed to dynamically track critical trends, demographics and peoples needs; identifying and assessing long term solutions, and near term consequences of proposed solutions and political will.
People can hardly keep up with their own lives never mind responsibilities for change and global issues in a rapidly changing and complex world. Creativity Cafe will allow citizens of all cultures, thanks to multimedia edutainments, to understand complex issues in simple ways and gain clarity on choices and solutions that might affect change in their lives (and the lives of others) thanks to Creativity Cafe’s Facilitated Networking systems for connecting resources with needs had and offered by those currently in any given venue.
* Ecologically responsible — reflective and supportive of nature's underlying processes, patterns and principles.
By having a central “safe club” where patrons have been authenticated, crime will be reduced as youth will have a mentoring center to provide role models, trained to deal with aberration of children reared on violent television and parents too busy or uninformed how to be there for their kids.
* Verifiable — able to withstand rigorous empirical testing.
Focus groups in over 190 V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media Ink events and Creativity Cafe installations have proven public need, public interest and corporate support for my ideas, installations, projects and programs such as KidCast for Peace; Solutions for a Better World.
These events that demonstrated various aspects of Creativity Cafe. Customer feedback was always positive. So much so that a non profit was formed of audience members to build the first ever venue dedicated to the use of art and technology for humanity; Creativity Cafe.
* Replicable — capable of being readily undertaken by others.
The wonderful thing about Creativity Cafe is that no matter where on Earth you go, a Creativity Cafe can be a home and sanctuary for the traveler on the path of world service. A fast “food for the soul” emporium of wisdom, resources and connection to the global mind. A place to connect with local support systems and for assistance for presenting multimedia filled illuminating experiences designed to support educational theater of the future events as a bridge between time and space, connecting patrons in other clubs with other cultures, in other parts of the world via video conference and ISPTV.
I have produced six prototype Creativity Cafes in various temporary venue’s from equity waver theaters, convention centers to nightclubs and recording studios. I would say that $550,000 would be needed in a scaled down, neighborhood venue to kick start a Creativity Cafe in a major mecca. We are currently planning for a Los Angeles debut of the ongoing venue, even if we have to start with little or no budget but Summer of 2008.
With even 20% of that budget, self sustainability (over 25 profit streams projected) will occur in 11 months given adhesion to my business plan that plots numbers out to 5 years.
Most of what makes a Creativity Cafe work (besides a specially designed technology layer as part of the CCafe Venue Operating System (C3OS) special software for CCafe and affiliates that make paring those with needs to those with resources, described in this proposal: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Sandbox/DigitalVision.
Pronoia is the intention of everyone who becomes a member and who acts as a mentor and/or collaborator for public benefit. By practicing PRONOIA, problem solving is speeded as are connection for the good of all peoples and the potential for the creation of problem solving multimedia and interactive presentations for local and wider distribution.
* Achievable — likely to be implemented successfully and broadly adopted.
Artists and creative people everywhere are never nurtured or respected as the work force (unless lucky enough to have achieved some degree of stardom). It is this undeserved group of people who are the ones who will bring their extraordinary thinking outside the box, to the benefit of those trapped and blinded, who are in it.
People are hungry for social change and for liberation from the unethical cycle of war as a means of conflict resolution and feeding corporate greed. Most of us are in pain of one sort or another (physical and/or emotional). Creativity Cafe is being designed to address these needs.
Web sites of note:
A documentary on my work and Creativity Cafe:
http://www.archive.org/details/RosenDocumentaryQT
Sample KidCast For Peace TV program and documentary film:
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=opensource_movies&collectionid=kcfp12
Vision Mission Page with Resources, Affiliates:
http://tinyurl.com/7ajby
Though not officially, I consider those on the page above, partners for CCafe. for the project calls for Collaborations with local (and not so) consortium members - each local community business and individuals who would become partners in their local venue. The proceeds of the 25+ profit streams are to be split between the owners, the club gets its share for sustainability, the members (who produce the edutainments and programs), royalties are shared by all for the distbirution and sale of creative offerings to other venues, businesses and ancillary connections with government (as each venue becomes a peoples town hall)
If a Creativity Cafe Environment and agenda take over what is now a movie theater, in every global city, these existing venues could easily be turned into a community meeting places with connection to the internet offering the vast teaching materials available online to those with little or know knowledge of such things. Furthermore, mentors will find out each persons challenge and help them solve their issue via connection with local resources and people who have pledged to be of service to others in the CCafe venue and community.
Our biggest global problems are people not being educated and the under-utilization of resources. By making education fun, entertaining and compelling, all patrons in Creativity Cafe (and the surrounding community at least) will be served no matter what level of tech saavy or non interest. Patrons will still be served what is is they need to succeed with everyones blessings, because of PRONOIA: http://creativity.net/pronoia.html
Creativity Cafe is designed to give peoples everywhere a loud voice in expressing their view of the issues and to connect easily via facilitated networking with others in the venue who might serve them.
Multimedia mentors will describe local and global issues and potential solutions. Everyone coming into the venue will be authenticated making the venue a safe haven for young people to hang out in and learn in fun ways... and strutt their creative prowess interactively on the bigs video screens, play with laser lights and explore their creative sides; mostly surpressed in todays educational institutions.
General systems are blinded to real repair of the obvious dysfunction of government and stewardship of Earth. With a Creativity Cafe in each town to act as the trim tab, local folk will have a place to give guidance and support for those daring to be, think and ACT differently for the betterment of all.
Creativity Cafe will be a venue for those dedicated to making a difference and nurturing themselves, each other and our world. We have grown beyond nationalistic forms of government. We have the Internet now. People can have better understanding and say in their world if they could only understand how to use this new tool and multimedia expressions. Creativity Cafe will connect them with the knowledged or those who will assist in giving voice the the peoples will!
* Anticipatory —
The world is changing so fast. The people need a way to dynamically monitor and understand the world changes (global warming) and the political and economic powers that control our very destiny. Creativity Cafe mentors and multimedia created by local folks in their own language will be able to address and filter global issues with the indiginous cluturel in mind.
The lay person needs to have an unbiased source of understandable news and an overview of how people locally are impacted. Government is mostly interested in power, control and money, leaving the the lay person (below a certain economic threshold) out of the discussion, viewing them as a troublesome thorn in the side of rich and powerful (that are better kept in fear and economic stress), to make sure they are too preoccupied to pay attention to how their country is operating and being run.
Creativity Cafe computer graphics and EarthStation area is being designed to dynamically track critical trends, demographics and peoples needs; identifying and assessing long term solutions, and near term consequences of proposed solutions and political will.
People can hardly keep up with their own lives never mind responsibilities for change and global issues in a rapidly changing and complex world. Creativity Cafe will allow citizens of all cultures, thanks to multimedia edutainments, to understand complex issues in simple ways and gain clarity on choices and solutions that might affect change in their lives (and the lives of others) thanks to Creativity Cafe’s Facilitated Networking systems for connecting resources with needs had and offered by those currently in any given venue.
* Ecologically responsible — reflective and supportive of nature's underlying processes, patterns and principles.
By having a central “safe club” where patrons have been authenticated, crime will be reduced as youth will have a mentoring center to provide role models, trained to deal with aberration of children reared on violent television and parents too busy or uninformed how to be there for their kids.
* Verifiable — able to withstand rigorous empirical testing.
Focus groups in over 190 V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media Ink events and Creativity Cafe installations have proven public need, public interest and corporate support for my ideas, installations, projects and programs such as KidCast for Peace; Solutions for a Better World.
These events that demonstrated various aspects of Creativity Cafe. Customer feedback was always positive. So much so that a non profit was formed of audience members to build the first ever venue dedicated to the use of art and technology for humanity; Creativity Cafe.
* Replicable — capable of being readily undertaken by others.
The wonderful thing about Creativity Cafe is that no matter where on Earth you go, a Creativity Cafe can be a home and sanctuary for the traveler on the path of world service. A fast “food for the soul” emporium of wisdom, resources and connection to the global mind. A place to connect with local support systems and for assistance for presenting multimedia filled illuminating experiences designed to support educational theater of the future events as a bridge between time and space, connecting patrons in other clubs with other cultures, in other parts of the world via video conference and ISPTV.
I have produced six prototype Creativity Cafes in various temporary venue’s from equity waver theaters, convention centers to nightclubs and recording studios. I would say that $550,000 would be needed in a scaled down, neighborhood venue to kick start a Creativity Cafe in a major mecca. We are currently planning for a Los Angeles debut of the ongoing venue, even if we have to start with little or no budget but Summer of 2008.
With even 20% of that budget, self sustainability (over 25 profit streams projected) will occur in 11 months given adhesion to my business plan that plots numbers out to 5 years.
Most of what makes a Creativity Cafe work (besides a specially designed technology layer as part of the CCafe Venue Operating System (C3OS) special software for CCafe and affiliates that make paring those with needs to those with resources, described in this proposal: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Sandbox/DigitalVision.
Pronoia is the intention of everyone who becomes a member and who acts as a mentor and/or collaborator for public benefit. By practicing PRONOIA, problem solving is speeded as are connection for the good of all peoples and the potential for the creation of problem solving multimedia and interactive presentations for local and wider distribution.
* Achievable — likely to be implemented successfully and broadly adopted.
Artists and creative people everywhere are never nurtured or respected as the work force (unless lucky enough to have achieved some degree of stardom). It is this undeserved group of people who are the ones who will bring their extraordinary thinking outside the box, to the benefit of those trapped and blinded, who are in it.
People are hungry for social change and for liberation from the unethical cycle of war as a means of conflict resolution and feeding corporate greed. Most of us are in pain of one sort or another (physical and/or emotional). Creativity Cafe is being designed to address these needs.
Web sites of note:
A documentary on my work and Creativity Cafe:
http://www.archive.org/details/RosenDocumentaryQT
Sample KidCast For Peace TV program and documentary film:
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=opensource_movies&collectionid=kcfp12
Vision Mission Page with Resources, Affiliates:
http://tinyurl.com/7ajby
Though not officially, I consider those on the page above, partners for CCafe. for the project calls for Collaborations with local (and not so) consortium members - each local community business and individuals who would become partners in their local venue. The proceeds of the 25+ profit streams are to be split between the owners, the club gets its share for sustainability, the members (who produce the edutainments and programs), royalties are shared by all for the distbirution and sale of creative offerings to other venues, businesses and ancillary connections with government (as each venue becomes a peoples town hall)
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