Collaborative Consumption: RSA / Nominet Film Trust Competition entry.

In collaboration with Throughline and KILN, Mindful Maps has been having a lot of fun co-creating a short movie for the RSA/Nominet Trust Film Competition. The movie animates an RSA talk given by social innovator Rachel Botsman, co-author with Roo Rogers of the popular book, What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption.

The movie was animated by Brendan at Blunt Films, and features original music by Tom Verney and Jonathan Impett.

Quote of the day: Small is Beautiful

Mindful Maps is currently inspired by E.F. Schumacher’s ‘Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. Here are some word’s I’d like to share (more of an extract than a quote!):

“When people ask for education they normally mean something more than mere training, something more than mere knowledge of facts, and something more than a mere division. Maybe they cannot themselves formulate precisely what they are looking for; but I think what they are really looking for is ideas that would make the world, and their own lives, intelligible to them. When a thing is intelligible you have a sense of participation; when a thing is unintelligible you have a sense of estrangement. ‘Well I don’t know’, you hear people say, as an impotent protest against the unintelligibility of the world as they meet it. If the mind cannot bring to the world a set – or shall we say, a tool box – of powerful ideas, the world must appear to it as a chaos, a mass of unrelated phenomena, of meaningless events. Such a man is like a person in a strange land without any signs of civilisation, without maps or signposts or indicators of any kind.”

- Schumacher, E.F. (1973), P68-69. This edition printed 1974 by Sphere Books Ltd, UK.