FOSS- a role to play in the future of art and expessive therapy

Before I point you towards a couple of online videos I'd like to help create the context that connects to the role of FOSS in addressing two areas that at first look may not seem related.

 

The first is the area of art in the creative and healing process. The Immortal Egos in particular is one of the Cultural Fusions that offers a perfect opportunity to work with refugee and abuse rescue agencies. The mission being to empower them with tools to deliver expressive programs using ICT to expand services without the need to increase staff size. FOSS collaborations provide the path to develop specific modules to empower an increasing range of artist. Cultural Fusion projects will showcase how these modules can be combined to create "art as philosophy" which is to say with purpose that is spawned from meaningful and practical questions.

The video is an example of software as art for the simple purpose of entertainment and self expression, but now who are visionaries that imagine software as art when that art is "art as philosophy"?

 

TED Talks Video-Software as art

 

What do you know about collaborative creativity as a driving force in the marketplace?

How do you get organized without an organization?

There have been many experts talking/writing about market disruption as force that will shape the economy as it moves through this transition period. However, I'm not hearing much in terms of insight about the disruptive factors bubbling up right now in the States. Why?
Because it is happening among what seem to be the mostly agreed upon “invisible people”.

In The Tipping Point Gladwell underscores the importance of “stickiness” with an example where including a map to a place that the readers were already familiar with made the difference, the status quo of using fear to manipulate behavior failed. This made me question how many people were also wondering about what will deliver the “stickiness” to keep attention on the part we play in the solutions we have to develop as a society and as individuals?

Now before I explain what prompted this post…

Consider what a radically new social landscape we create when we can engage all levels of society based on this idea….

Develop systems and operating frameworks that turn users into producers and consumers into creators as an approach to offsetting the demand on community human services AND support development of globalization models that address a significant current problems of economic development across Africa and CSR program short falls that will have a negative impact on corporation profits (declining social capital).

Often social enterprises are built with one large customer, without a growth in market share the endeavors are not sustainable, but that is an issue for another time.

Lessons from Freakonomics…there have been no shortage of reports about the anticipated crisis in certain sectors of the financial market. However little attention has gone to the very human side of that scenario, that could also mean an increase in demand on an already under supported human services sector...and that is where i will pick up in my next post.

Painting that accompanies this line of development can be seen here