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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! @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

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

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.


How Talkaoke Works – The Video

How Talkaoke Works - The Video

It can be notoriously difficult to explain Talkaoke to people. The concept of a pop-up talk-show just doesn’t seem to make sense until people see it, at which point they sit down at the table and just start using it. So – The People Speak media lab got to work creating a new video to [...]


Two new websites!

The People have finally launched our new website! It’s been a while in the making – mostly because although we’re great at communicating with people, and have lots of technical chops, we’re often just too busy to sit down and spend time boasting about what we’re doing to the world. Anyway, we have now launched [...]