Content Strategist/Writer
Robert Bolton is a writer at Idea Couture, a global strategic innovation and experience design firm. He is based in Toronto, Canada.
Pop music has always informed and expressed our understanding of the everyday. It's a tricky job; the song means to transcend the cultural moment, but depends on imitating it to do so. Read more...
Is this the Most Innovative Song in Post-Millenial Pop Music? Pitchfork named OutKast’s “B.O.B” the Song of The Decade proclaiming even that it “is the decade…effectively crafting a fast-forwarded highlight-reel prophecy of what the next 10 years held in store.” It remains to be seen where the song will sit in twenty or fifty years. [...] Read more...
Since the falling of the walls, Berlin has been a site of ongoing experimentation. Old factory buildings, inhabited by artists and designers, transforming into studios and galleries. While I haven’t been for myself yet, I can tell you, based on hard anecdotal evidence, there is a consensus among young people: Berlin is the $H!T. The [...] Read more...
“The Greatest thing by far,” Aristotle declared, “is to be a master of metaphor…. It is a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars.” IARPA, the US governmental arm for intelligence research (sometimes described as ‘DARPA for spies’) announced The Metaphor Program, with an open solicitation [...] Read more...
The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan believed every unsuccessful act to be successful as discourse. Mistakes are reference points. They re-calibrate our assumptions and reorient our course of action. The culture that doesn’t identify and contemplate its mistakes is condemned to repeat them. Applied Design Thinking practices help manage risks and avoid critical failures. But it’s [...] Read more...
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