{"id":1830,"date":"2010-03-01T18:05:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2010-03-01T18:05:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:05:41","slug":"welcome-to-the-imagination-age-by-rita-j-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Imagination Age by Rita J. King"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About<\/strong> :\u00a0The Imagination Age<\/em> is a broad approach to rethinking systems through a prism\u00a0of technology, held up to amplify the bright beam of the imagination. Both the\u00a0Diffusion eBook and the Story Cubes explore The Imagination Age through the\u00a0perspective outlined by Giles Lane when he commissioned the project:\u00a0Transformation: How We Become Who We Are. The Story Cubes take shape\u00a0across three planes of perceived reality:<\/p>\n

Physical Reality: First, the 27 cubes were designed on paper, meant to act as a\u00a0catalyst in the physical world for people to build stories the way children build\u00a0castles out of blocks. I thought it would be fabulous if people could make the\u00a0cubes tremendous or tiny to show the signi\ufb01cance of each element in the\u00a0overall scene of the story created anew each time the cubes are approached. In\u00a0the physical world, the cubes remain stubbornly one size \ufb01ts all. You can\u2019t\u00a0make some of them disappear into the ocean while others \ufb02oat in the sky. That\u00a0can only be accomplished in the virtual world, so that\u2019s where I went next.<\/p>\n

Virtual Reality: For several years I have been working in the \ufb01eld of \u201cvirtual\u00a0reality.\u201d In the virtual world Second Life, participants create avatars for\u00a0themselves and can design and collaborate on any three-dimensional content\u00a0they can dream up. Second Life is a creative paradise for those with the vision\u00a0to give dimension to their own previously intangible imaginations and then\u00a0allow people from all over the world to enhance their created landscapes. To\u00a0illustrate the installation in Second Life and segue to the third plane of reality,\u00a0click the link:\u00a0www.youtube.com\/dancinginktv#p\/u\/2\/Y4KwvsTEHKY<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Augmented Reality: Lately, my company, Dancing Ink Productions, has been\u00a0working in the \ufb01eld of \u201caugmented reality,\u201d which goes a step beyond \u201cvirtual\u00a0reality\u201d by changing the fabric of one\u2019s immediate perceptions in the physical\u00a0world. Reality is becoming a multilayered collage. 26 of the cubes correspond\u00a0to letters of the Roman alphabet from which stories are told. The 27th cube has\u00a0no corresponding letter, so instead, it activates the possibility for a whole new\u00a0realm of understanding through an Augmented Reality marker printed on it. If\u00a0you have a webcam, you can print this Augmented Reality marker out and\u00a0activate the webcam at the following site: www.1000inchesinloveland.com<\/a> to see the 27th cube create a new reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWelcome to the Imagination Age,\u201d documents some of the main ideas behind a\u00a0worldwide collaborative movement toward a new global culture and economy in\u00a0the Imagination Age. If this message of transformation speaks to you, consider it\u00a0an invitation to join the experiment. Follow @RitaJKing on Twitter and ping me..<\/p>\n

Published March 2010 in the Diffusion Transformations<\/a> series<\/p>\n

Rita J. King<\/strong> is CEO and Creative Director of Dancing Ink Productions<\/a>. Creator of The Imagination Age. Innovator-in-Residence, IBM Analytics Virtual Center. Senior\u00a0Fellow for Social Networking and Immersive Technologies at the Center for the\u00a0Study of the Presidency & Congress, and a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council\u00a0for Ethics in International Affairs, where she collaborated with Joshua S. Fouts on the \u201cUnderstanding Islam through Virtual Worlds\u201d project that spanned four\u00a0continents as well as the digital culture. Investigative reporter, essayist, artist\u00a0and adventurer.<\/p>\n

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