“It felt like moving through hyperspace: time was compressed, the decisions came naturally and we ended up with results so good, none of us had seen coming.”
In 2014, I attended my first (IDEO) workshop and nothing I'd done before had produced this experience.
Since then, I’ve been collecting helpful structures and mind models wherever I go, and Hyperraum is the vehicle to show you my atlas of collected formats.
THE MINDSET
A ship in a harbour is safe,
but that is not what ships are built for
evolve
feels good
the guide, not the hero
make it visual
be invisible
THE WORK
BEHIND
THE WORK
FOUNDATION All of this goes on top of my work as a designer and engineer at market-leading firms in furniture and industrial products, and an academic background in integrative design (M.A.) and mechanical engineering (B.Eng.).
DESIGN Design teaches you to work with context. The people in the room, the politics, the thinking. And then shaping it into something with relevance. It adds taste, visual thinking, and a refusal to accept poor compromises.
ENGINEERING Engineering teaches you that clarity is a solvable system, its something you can build. Constraints are not the obstacles, but the guidelines for what success looks like. A Hyperraum session is also a system: input, structure, output. Most facilitation problems are structural issues wearing emotional clothes.
DESIGN Design teaches you to work with context. The people in the room, the politics, the thinking. And then shaping it into something with relevance. It adds taste, visual thinking, and a refusal to accept poor compromises.
ENGINEERING Engineering teaches you that clarity is a solvable system, its something you can build. Constraints are not the obstacles, but the guidelines for what success looks like. A Hyperraum session is also a system: input, structure, output. Most facilitation problems are structural issues wearing emotional clothes.
SECRET
I’ve been DJing since 2008. Holding the attention of 200 people at 2am is obviously a different discipline from running a strategy workshop, but the underlying craft is the same.
INVITATION The power of facilitation and guided collaboration is very impressive, and I’d love to show you. Since you are reading these words here almost at the end of the page, drop me a text and you get a surprise ;-)
I'd also be glad if you'd consider sharing your project with me.
Talk soon,
Arne