Innovation Parkour TED India 5.11.09

Innovation Parkour at TEDIndia Photo ©: TED / James Duncan Davidson

Michael Anton DilaPhoto ©: TED / James Duncan Davidson

I like to play with fire.

Work makes us stupid.

Can we design a way for ordinary people to hack the limitations of work?

@michaeldila@mmilan

Innovation takes a long time

Innovation can only be done by a special kind of person

Innovation is expensive

3 MYTHS

We want people to understand the power of being more innovative.

MANN GULCH

MISSOULA SMOKEJUMPERS

WALL OF FLAME 50 FT HIGH

300 FT DEEP 700 FT / MIN

FLASH OF GENIUS

SAFETY

a momenta firefighter

a match

INSIGHT AS INNOVATION

How do we practice what Wag did?

Parkour isn’t about running & climbing.

Parkour is about navigating uncertainty in real-time.

INNOVATIONPARKOUR

If we teach people to be more insightful, they can learn to innovate on-demand.

architecture of a practice

THE KERNEL

VISUALIZATION practice seeing

COLLABORATION practice trust

PARTICIPATION practice openness

INNOVATION practice freedom

first human trials on

Strike more matches. Start more fires.

www.innovationparkour.com