SOC's Co-Creative Culture
The Creatopia Village
is the name of SOC’s co-creative culture.
It is an intentionally co-creative village
that gives both experience of and practice with:
- collaborating with others on projects
- sharing and recommending resources to help our projects
- sharing insights into project and social & ecological problems
- brainstorming and sharing solutions for these
- envisioning what it is could create together to be part of the solution
- co-creating these ideas, benefiting from them, and learning from the process
- learning the skills of collaboration
- learning the principles of co-creativity, and
- helping our personal communities such as families, businesses and organisations we work for, or our local communities to undertake their own co-creative processes.
Our culture is co-creative for lots of reasons including:
1. We need relationships to grow with, work with, and build with others,
2. We need to be enabled to offer our unique talents, gifts, ideas, passions, visions, interests, ideals, geniuses, points of view, and projects. This enriched diversity creates a culture where everyone’s uniquness is not only valued, but is necessary to form a whole.
3. We need practice living and working in co-creative cultures for our collective future to be more successful, and
4. We need an ecos to be creative-sympathetic, because Creatives tend to hold our unique and valuable natures and skills back when we sense there may be a negative consequence for it.
We have a Code of Conduct Community Agreement to abide by though, to safeguard against non-co behaviours such as taking and bullying. Participants are asked to read this to ensure we all agree to it prior to applying.
Features and Spaces
Community of global Creatives
Feeling like home, profiles and feeds, self-expression, connections and friendships, networking, finding creatives nearby, messaging, communing.
Following our inner Star
Such as our passions, ideas, talents, interests, callings, dreams, genuises, and their individuality, creating from and with them & bringing them to life.
Sharing our creativity safely
Inbuilt social profiles, linking to external profiles and projects and businesses, posting creative experiences and epiphanies, seeing others, and being seen.
Discussing and collaborating
Taking creativity knowledge and practice to new heights by chatting and brainstorming about processes, problems, ideas, tools, solutions, projects, and wins.
Designing + developing projects
Developing new or current or long-lingering projects, promoting, supporting, collabing on our project & others’ projects, and finding new projects.
Project progress logs
Setting intentions for and sharing visions of projects, monitoring project progress with an in-built project log, receiving feedback, tools, encouragement, support.
Project Prods
Receiving help with projects in live Project Prod sessions as needed, sharing design and development, receiving collaborative & co-creative help.
Enterprise Eggs
Receiving help with enterprise development in Enterprise Egg sessions as needed, for ideas, strategic planning, marketing, monetisation for those interested.
Studio
Getting together with others to share ideas for projects and project design and development, and experimenting with them in a tinkering, maker-space.
Creatopia Collabs
A panel-style podcast with our Creatives from diverse sectors, live and recorded, about creativity from their experience, and published on YouTube.
By the Book BOOKS
Recording what we learn in a personal journal that can follow the Creatology Curriculum, to remind ourselves how we create so we always remember!
Marketplace
Sharing our products and services, past or emerging, offering them here so our Village can benefit from all of our gorgeous, hard, creative work.
Creatology
Accessing the full Creatology Curriculum, timetable and classes, live and recorded, so we can learn about Creativity, share our knowledge and expand it!
PoP-Up Topics
Exploring the out-of-the-Creatology’s-box concepts of Creativity that are inspired by our questions and curiosities about Creativity.
Library
Supporting our creativity with resources, articles, reports, videos, programs, blogs, creativity tools, productivity tools, meditations… adding as we go.
Fire Pit Village Meetings
Participating in monthly village meetings at the fire pit, raising and reviewing problems, sharing and creating ideas and solutions, meeting others.
Ceremony Garden
Celebrating our graduates of Creatology, the Ceremony Garden is the sacred place where we host their presentations and their graduation ceremonies.
SoC in an App
Accessing the school 24/7 on computers, phones or tablets on the Mighty Networks app, giving us easy access to the school, Creatopia village, & each other.