The Grove Thoughts from and for The Grove Worldwide Network

Panoramic, interactive displays featured in the movie the Minority Report are almost here, judging from this video from Oblong Industries, an organization claiming to make the first big interface revolution since 1984. They call it a “spatial operating environment,” where users wear gloves that allow 3D manipulation of text and imagery. Thanks to Grove associate Lynn Kearny for the link. There is little question that The Grove’s graphic facilitation work will eventually be supported by large, interactive walls of information. This could be a step closer!!! Check it out at www.oblong.com.

Interactive Digital Panoramas

Grove Associate Julie Gieseke ( MapTheMind) and visual colleague Mariah Howard (Arterior Motives) had a great time at the recent Maker’s Faire in San Mateo getting people to visualize what sustainability looks like. They integrated their drawings into a little video of inspiring images. There’s nothing quite like the fun of seeing hand done drawings appear like magic in real time. Click here to see Visualizing Sustainability.

Visualizing Sustainability

I attended the Institute for the Future’s Ten-Year Forecast retreat at the new Cavallo Point Conference Center at Fort Baker recently, called “Superstructing the Next Decade.” The Grove is an affiliate of IFTF and a partner all during the 1990s when The Grove and IFTF were researching groupware and its implications for organization. Our mapping strategies have become a mainstream tool at IFTF as a consequence. We were invited this time to share our work with RE-AMP (the Midwest consortium of 100+ NGOs and 15 foundations working to clean up an eight-state energy infrastructure), as a living example of contemporary “superstructing”—defined as “Su`per`struct´ v. t. 1.To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation.” (You can see a post on RE-AMP on my blog or click here for the RE-AMP web site).

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