The next stage of the project is to bring 100 people together over 3 days at an event at the in Barcelona in November to design a masterplan for a fully sustainable village. What’s interesting to us this week is how you design an event like this when the core team is distributed across the world! So far it hasn’t gone very well. Collaboration is really difficult when contending with different time zones and the limitations of conversation by e-mail. And in any case, a collective creative process is hard. So it was with some trepidation that we approached the task of helping design a very big picture event with a group of people we didn’t know. In the end, with good questions and some very generous sharing, we got to grips with the idea and design the outline of a full three days. How? Well, apart from the talents and experience of the people in the room, a real commitment to leave egos at the door and build ideas through collective intelligence. This is how collaboration works best, and exciting when it works because it’s hard to get conditions and mindsets right. And very exciting when it does – it’s going to be a brilliant event. Apply