Talkaoke- 15 years- going global
The 15th anniversary Talkaoke party was a great milestone. It was the first time two Talkaoke sessions were performed in the same space and, actually it worked rather well. There were faces there from the last 15 years; recent members, but also people who were there at the very first Talkaoke event. And there were [...]
Celebrating 15 Years of Talkaoke
Wow, what a great turn out for the 15th Anniversary of Talkaoke! Thank you to everyone who came out and helped out celebrate in grand fashion. We tried something new by conducting 2 Talkaoke Tables at the same time which worked out wonderfully … and amazing the world did not did end. Here are the [...]
R&D: Heckle
Here’s a short post about one of our tools for participation and conversation: the Heckle System from Saul, The People Speak’s researcher in residence. Heckle is the tool we use to create instant, shareable visualisations of conversations as they happen – you might have seen it in use if you’ve ever been to a Talkaoke, [...]
Need 2 Knowledge
In a project with Emerge and Artquest, The People Speak created an interactive session, partially based on a game show and a game of Snakes and Ladders that got together with a Monopoly board. The idea was to get artists and artists facilitators to exchange strategies, ideas, information and contacts in a fun way. As [...]
You haven’t seen this yet- Talkaoke: A Love Story
Romance isn’t dead. It remains under continuous threat, as necessary as it is to the human essence, but ‘the table of chat’ gives you one more reason to believe.
Talkaoke! @Supernormal Festival 20/08/11
Talkaoke returns to Braziers Park for this years Supernormal Festival, but we brought a little something extra to the festival. This year Talkoake was situated inside our very own inflatable structure called ‘Home Sweet Dome’, which has been specifically designed for community events and festivals. and the cool lights effect pictures and the peculiar “blow-up [...]
David Mitchell’s Soapbox
Sharing makes the world go around. This is for people that like to be inspired. For people that like to laugh. For people that enjoy the art of ranting. Ultimately for people like you. The latest episode of the David Mitchell Soapbox series was edited and animated by our very own Zsolt Balogh, “Visualiser Master”, [...]
Who Wants to Be? @Adhocracy
Who Wants to Be…? is an ask-the audience game show, where the rules are made up by the audience. This was the latest in a series of games which had started in December 2006 where an audience at Limehouse Town Hall made up the first rules about how the game should work, and what to [...]
The Spectrascope Facilitation Method
We specialise in spontaneous, fun, people-led discussion. Clients often ask us how they can use the energy and creativity we unleash to help their communities make decisions and create things together. The Spectrascope is one of our many methods, often used in conjunction with Talkaoke, but as it works really well with any discussion format, [...]
Funderstorm
A gem from the (recent) archives, that we are finally getting around to documenting…. Funderstorm was a visionary participatory budgeting process that The People Speak developed and implemented along with Islington Council in 2009-2010.