Attendees

  • Fraser – background in water and indigenous issues, co-founder Engage North
  • Wes – from Victoria, works in HVAC and stand-up comedy
  • Kris - started ideas meetings, IdeaWave conference
  • Tony – sci fi writer interested in social networks
  • Cim – interested in organizational development and occupational therapy, working on design and communication (including stained glass!)
  • Patrick – transport planning and behavior change consultant, sustainability lecturer, co-founder of EWB Canada’s 21st century education venture

Initial list of Ideas

  • Do it yourself (DIY) water treatment
  • IdeaWave conference
  • Disruptive Art
  • Fashion
  • Kale
  • Settler Colonial Issues
  • Sustainability and its role in the electoral cycle
  • Online learning
  • 21st century learning
  • Social networking for community development
  • Fringe festival projects
  • Art using unique colouring techniques

Discussions

DIY Water

Issues: is there a way to test the amount of metals and ions in water in a cost effective user friendly way? In particular, some people who brew their own beer or use municipal water for domestic projects may be concerned about water issues that are readily measured with the right equipment.

Kale

Issues: what’s the deal with Kale?

  • Aggregate Nutrient Density Index (ANDI, see Dr. Joel Fuhrman) reflects the expected nutritious intake of certain foods – includes nutrient profiles to help select nutritious foods
  • High ANDI foods: strawberries, kale, bok choy among others have the highest levels of aggregate nutrient density (ANDI food scores)
  • ANDI is not particularly useful when seeking specific nutrients, but is useful as a general guideline

  • Kale and other dark greens may have too many oxalates for some people – super foods may not always be ideal for every condition

  • Health Canada’s How much food you need every day guide

Sustainability and elections

Issue: public services do not have adaptable and legible funding mechanisms (unlike other countries, i.e. Japan, USA, UK etc.). Higher orders of governments (provincial, federal) provide funding for projects, but the funding doesn’t always have a clear process for allocation and often important public services compete for funding against dissimilar projects, cities of different sizes compete for the same funding, or funding is provided on an ad hoc basis. How do we make this an important issue in the up coming election?

  • Ideas on lessons from bitcoin as a model for governance (i.e. block chain)
  • Use of public debates to set the stage has worked on other issues (i.e. aid) – but for an issue that requires public spotlight what can we learn from other tools to fix the conversation in the public eye?
  • Change vs. transformation in public service processes
  • Discussion on ‘community of place’
    • how do community discussions take place on other issues, like planning applications?
    • This could be a parallel idea for further discussion.

Social Network

Issue: how do people connect online to build community and find likeminded individuals to connect with? Idea: develop a social networking site that uses news to connect likeminded people on topics of interest, and then allow them to engage on a variety of other topics too.

  • Use of political affiliation mapping to sort
  • Debate and discuss channels for people to peruse depending on their inclination
  • Q: does this lead to silo-ing like how google’s matching algorithms creates silos and echo chambers?
  • How does such a site enable connections without siloing?
  • Filters and opt in / opt out controls will be in the hands of users
  • Use of language: little endian and big endian to explore the issue
  • Can this site be used to enrich understanding of political associative behaviour?
  • Can the site use news as a launch pad for integration and conversation?
  • Aggregation of content is based on the users defined preferences
  • The site would include cohort management tools to build groups with just the people the user would like to
  • Key idea: digitizing the party and helping people find the part folks they’d like to be with

Public Art – colours and light

Idea: use unique paint and patterns to create art that only appears under certain conditions (i.e. when a bike map passes over it, if someone is colour blind, when a red light shines on it)

  • Discussed different tools and processes that could be used to create desired optical illusions and effects

Closing

  • Discussion on people’s writing habits (everyone at the meeting writes in some way shape or form)
  • Kris to send doodle out for November time slot
  • Patrick to help select venue/facilitate

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