Creative collaboration! What the heck is it? How does it work?
James posted Making, collaboratively and said:
…I noted that there is a spectrum of what collaboration means. You can make something with someone in real time, like the story I wrote with an internet friend, or you can create a task, allow people to contribute in their own time, and curate the results into a single output.
That session was at IndieWeb Camp Berlin: Non-technical collaboration on the internet.
Last month I posted MAKE A MARK. In that I talked about reluctant collaborators.
Ultimately it’s all about play. You gotta lean into playing.
In that spirit, gRegor shared in praise of creating crap with me recently. And this passage hit me like a ton of bricks:
Listen. This is important, so pay attention.
The value of creativity is not in the quality of what you create. The value is in the act of creativity itself. The value is in the energy you spend, and the fact that you spend that energy bringing something into being rather than tearing something (or someone) apart.
Creativity is a force. It is a power. It is the path toward light and growth. If you are creating, you are not doing other negative stuff with your energy (like destroying or criticizing or sinking into a lethargy so deep that even a new pack of Sharpies won’t pull you out).
Make stuff.
