TorCampDesignSlam 1.0 AKA SlamCamp

 

A TorCamp event Held Saturday, February 25, 2006, 2:30–6:00, Navantis, Inc.

 

 

 

I'd like to thanks everyone who came out for the Design Slam. The turnout was great and I hope we can do this again. -- BryceJohnson

 

Results

 

Four teams of seven or eight participants, each named after a children's gift label handed out randomly to participants, competed in this competition to redesign the city's megabin garbage containers.

 

Results from judges

 

Judges scored the event as follows:

 

1. Team Swiss Cheese won the event (62 points)
2. Team Baobab (58)
3. Team Japanese Air Guitar (57)
4. Team Piggybank (54.5)

 

Results from peers

 

Each team scored all the other teams on the same criteria the judges used. Score sheets were retained and tabulated, adding up everything but the mayor's score (which only some people filled in). The highest-scoring team on each sheet was given one point. The same was done with the judges' scoring. This Freakonomics-style measurement assesses overall winners rather than fine-tuning by number of points; in a real-world client presentation, only one team would win. (A single score sheet with a tied result was discarded. The city has a troubled history of dealing with tie votes.)

 

Peers scored the event as follows:

 

1. Team Baobab won with 15 votes
2. Team Swiss Cheese (11)
3. Team Piggybank (1) & Team Japanese Air Guitar (1)

 

Judges and peers essentially agreed. Judges assigned two votes each to Baobab and Swiss Cheese, the only credible finalists. Baobab won the popular vote by a reasonable margin, but Baobab and Swiss Cheese trounced the other teams. Swiss Cheese won the judges' vote. The presumed real-world outcome would involve Swiss Cheese's getting the contract and Baobab launching a lawsuit.

 

 

 

 

 

Participants

 

Please enter your names under the appropriate team below.

 

Swiss Cheese 

 

1. Robin Gambhir - OpenBlue Networks
2. Thomas Purves
3. ShelleyMcKay - cricketmarketing.com
4. Matthew Burpee

 

Baobab

 

1. Craig Saila
2. Patrick Dinnen
3. Quinn Fung
4. JayGoldman Radiant Core

 

Japanese Air Guitar

 

1. Kaleem Khan
2. Taylan Pince
3. Dan Zlotnikov
4. Avi Soudack
5. MichaelBodalski - spazsquatch.com

 

Piggybank

 

1. Peter Dawson - TorCampDesingSlam1-Thought Flickrs
2. Martin Kuplens-Ewart

Judges

 

• Mayor: Her Worship Barbara Suzanne Long Hall
• City of Toronto Marketing: Carsten Knoch
• City of Toronto Waste Management: BryceJohnson
• Spacer-style city activist: Joe Clark

 

Tags and blogs

 

For blog and Flickr coverage, use the minimum set of tags TorCampDesignSlam (and the first and second halves of that if you want; Technorati/Flickr results) and megabin (Technorati/Flickr).

 

Blog coverage

 

1. Joe Clark (Flickr photos)
2. Tom's Flickr set
3. Jay's Flickr Set
4. Bryce's Flickr Set
5. Matthew's Flickr Set

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Old information

 

• Expected Attendance: All are welcome! Please add yourself to the Attendees list below so we have some idea of the size of the crowd.
• Format: 30 minute Client Presentation, 2 hours of Slamming, 1 hour of Team Presentations
• Drinks, snacks and Lunch Provided:
• Sponsors: We need sponsors for things like the Slam consumables - flipchart paper, markers, etc as well as prizes for the top teams. Email mmilan at gmail.com if you think you can help out with any of these.

 

 

Mini-FAQ

 

• What's the point?

 

A Design Slam is where we have a fictitious company present a problem to "agencies" made of random torcampers. These ingenious and innovative people will have a set block of time to design and pitch their idea to the company.

 

• Who can come?

 

Everyone is welcome! Just Edit this page and add your name under Attendees, below, so that we have a rough idea of numbers.

 

• What are these things about?

For more info on past SLAMs look here:

http://www.e-reiss.com/Seminars/IA%20Slam%20mini-site.aspx

http://www.raincitystudios.com/bmni-creative-canux-design-slam

 

 

• What are the rules?

 

Rule #1 of SlamCamp: Bring Your Brain to Slam Camp ;)

 

Rule #2 of SlamCamp: No computers allowed. Why no computers? - Because real design is done with your brains and your peers.

 

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Registered attendees:

 

 

1. BryceJohnson - thechickentest.com
2. MatthewMilan - emergentpatterns.com
3. DeborahHartmann - vitalbrew.com - I want to document the event - photos, notes, maybe even some audio clips
4. DavidCrow
5. PatrickDinnen - Hogtown Consulting
6. Thomas Purves
7. MichaelBodalski - spazsquatch.com
8. ShelleyMcKay - cricketmarketing.com
9. Ken Schafer - One Degree
10. CraigSaila - saila.com
11. AviSoudack - brightroom.ca
12. Dan Zlotnikov - WatCHI
13. Jonathan Resnick
14. Peter Dawson - Thought Flickrs
15. Arnold Wytenburg - theartguy.ca
16. Anuradha Kumarannehelage - Navantis
17. JayGoldman - Radiant Core
18. MikeBeltzner - Mozilla
19. Dave Han - waterwave.ca
20. Michael Maclennan - geodistribution
21. Suzanne Long
22. Joe Clark
23. Carsten Knoch - Navantis
24. Christine Samuel
25. Audrey Carr - Delvinia
26. Robin Gambhir - OpenBlue Networks
27. Allenna Leonard
28. Siobhan McLaughlin
29. Randy Macdonald
30. Kaleem Khan ux
31. Quinn Fung - student
32. Taylan Pince - taylanpince.com
33. Martin Kuplens-Ewart - Radiant Core
34. Mark Kuznicki - Strategy Nerd
35. Matthew Burpee
36. Paul Newby - PicoList Toronto

 

Not Attending:

1. Timothy Li - student - have fun all!
2. David Crow