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Innovation Parkour Field Lab @ NetChange Week 2010

Wednesday, June 9, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (ET)

Toronto, Ontario

Innovation Parkour Field Lab @ NetChange Week 2010

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Innovation Traceur Ended CA$275.00 CA$7.87

Event Details

The Field Lab

Innovation Parkour workshops are designed to create a stress environment that accelerates the achievement of the flow state. Tasks are intended to be complex, executed in short time bursts and with full intensity of purpose. Participants will learn about the main barriers to effective innovation, get hands-on experience with the Innovation Parkour discipline and get a chance to validate the proposition that innovation is not an outcome, but rather a path.

 

Innovation Parkour Field Lab from Normative on Vimeo.

 

The Framework

If Parkour is a physical discipline, Innovation Parkour is a mental one. The goal of Innovation Parkour is to prepare the mind for innovation through practice. Innovation Parkour is a framework for the open source development of a practice of innovativeness. We believe that innovativeness, like creativity, has its roots in native human capacity. This capacity is complex and its constituents are cognitive, social and technological.


Navigating Complexity


Like Tai Chi and Yoga, Parkour has a core of well-defined moves, analogous to poses, but unlike them Parkour has no formal sequences. The confrontation of challenges and inclusion of the form of the built environment is what shapes the piste (or course) of the traceur (practitioner). Parkour's traceurs execute moves which have both high degree of challenge and require a high degree of skill. As the traceur becomes more and more proficient, she aims to make an unbroken run, flowing around, over and through obstacles and turning them into vaults, bridges, platforms and slides. It is from this idea of fluid motion, the navigation of complexity, uncertainty and the achievement of flow that Innovation Parkour derives its core metaphor.

If you're looking for a way to get your innovation skills tuned up, it doesn't get better than a day of Innovation Parkour. What are you waiting for?

Take your brain to bootcamp!

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When & Where



MaRS
101 College Street
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7
Canada

Wednesday, June 9, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (ET)


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Torch Innovation Leadership



Torch Innovation Leadership creates leadership events, workshops, programs and bespoke strategic conversations for business. In every respect these programs represent leading thinking and practice for the state of the innovation art. Our task is to provide leaders, senior management and front-line innovators with a diet of thoughtfully curated provocation that explores the emergence of and likely contours of disruptive innovation across intersecting industries and domains.