Pattern Languages as Media for the Creative Society (COINs2013)

Takashi IbaAssociate Professor at Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University

Ph.D. in Media and Governanceiba @ sfc.keio.ac.jp

Creating new media for the Creative Society

Creative Society is a society where people create their own goods, tools, concepts, knowledge, and systems with their own hands.

As media to support creativity, I focued on Pattern Languages, which is a way of describing practical knowledge of designing.

Pattern languages can function in three ways: glasses of recognition, triggers for narrative & dialogue, and basis of self-confidence.

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I would like to start to tell a vision of our future society.

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When trying to imagine what kind of a society will come to be, we often look at the transition between the past, present, and the future.

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When trying to imagine what kind of a society will come to be, we often look at the transition between the past, present, and the future.

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One way to look at the past and the present of our current world is the transition from a society of "Consumption" to a society of "Communication."

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Many of what used to be just end consumers receiving the products have now become senders of their own information.

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And, I see the next age to be full of people each CREATING things for their own good.

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In this talk, this new society to come is called the Creative Society.

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People of a Creative Society create their own goods, tools, concepts, knowledge, systems, and ultimately the future with their own hands.

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Creation in this society is no longer limited to just companies, but is entrusted to the individuals.

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In the society, people will be networking with other people through the open act of creation, and everywhere creative communities will be forming.

For example, open-source software developers and Wikipedia editors have formed open communities through the act of creation.

To form such a community, supporting media for creative act will especially be important in the Creative Society.

This new kind of media that supports the creative acts of the people would be called discovery media.

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This naming is based on the Creative Systems Theory (Iba, COINs2009). In the theory, a creative process is defined as a web of discoveries, and the process must be supported by discovery media to maintain itself.

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Discovery media will exist to trigger the creativity of people, and then amplify it.

It must be effective not only for individuals, but also for groups of people, and ultimately empower the whole society.

Pattern languages are what I see as the perfect fit for such a discovery media.

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A pattern language is a language consisted of patterns, which together scribe out the practical design knowledge.





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Each pattern consists of the abstract statements about Context, Problem, and Solution. These information present the practical knowledge for problem finding and solving, in other words, designing.

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The original idea of pattern languages for writing out the practical knowledge of designing, which was proposed by an architect Christopher Alexander.

His intention was to have people get involved in the process of designing their own houses and community where they live in.

Ten years later, the idea of pattern languages was adopted in the field of software design, as a name of “design patterns.”

Then, the fields where pattern languages are applied are expanding little by little.

On such a background, my students and I have been creating pattern languages in a whole new area, pattern languages for human actions ...

... like learning, collaborations, presentations, education, social innovation, policy making, and even beauty in daily life.

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You are always putting on makeup

because you don’t have much

confidence in your bare face.

You get such used to having makeup

on that you don’t want to meet anyone

when you don’t have any on.

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Try putting on less when you are just going to

school or work. If you are only going to meet

your close friends, even try going natural.

By having opportunities to put on different

kinds of makeup, you might be able to notice

something new about your face.

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世界を変える力クオリティ・ラインこだわり合う一度こわす期待を超えるファンをつくる広がりの戦略世界の文脈つくり続ける強さ感性を磨く

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Mind BridgeReality SharingParticipation DriverQuality in DetailsExpression CoordinatorDiscomfort RemovingSignificant VoidActivation SwitchTake-Home Gift

Stage BuildingReminders of SuccessConstruction of ConfidencePresentershipBest EffortPersonally for YouInvitation to the WorldImprovised PresentationReflecting Forwards

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Creative PatternsA Pattern Language of Learning, Collaborations, and Presentationsin the Creative Society

Today’s Take-Home-Gift for you is the booklet “Creative Patterns,” which includes three pattern languages: (1) the Learning Patterns, (2) the Collaboration Patterns, and (3) the Presentation Patterns.

Learning Patterns is a pattern language for creative learning, which consists of 40 patterns describing practical knowledge for problem finding and problem solving in learning.

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37. Explorer’s Passion

35. Right Way7. Output-Driven Learning

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11. Language Shower

14. Triangle Scaling

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19. Multi-Camera Shooting 24. Fruit Farming

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5. Learning by Imitation6. E!ective Asking

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8. Foreign Language Every Day

9. Playful Learning

31. Firm Determination

33. Learning by Teaching

10. Embodied Skills

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15. Chain of Excitement!

13. Tornade of Learning

16. Thinking in Action

18. Field Diving

21. Hidden Connections20. A Bird’s- & Bug’s-Eye View

22. Frontier Finder23. Creative Switch

25. Initial Draft Only Halfway26. Attractive Expression

28. Community of Learning

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Collaboration Patterns is a pattern language for creative collaboration, which consists of 34 patterns describing practical knowledge for performing creative collaborations.

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Mission for the FutureInnovation of the WaysCreate a Legend

Spiral of GrowthSympathetic UnionResponse RallyFeeling of TogethernessPiece to ContributeReturn of GrowthSpontaneous CommitmentsLoose ConnectionsVulnerability DisclosureWords of Thanks

Vigor of EmergenceLoaf of TimeCollaborative FieldActivity FootprintsChaotic Path to BreakthroughIdeas Taking ShapeInside InnovatorRoadmap to the GoalImprovised RolesSpadework for Creativity

Power to Change The WorldQuality LineCreative ClashesGenerative DestructionBeyond ExpectationsProject FollowersStrategic DevelopmentsContext of the WorldEndurance to Continue CreatingPolishing Senses

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Presentation Patterns is a pattern language for creative presentations, which consists of 34 patterns describing practical knowledge for designing creative presentations. it can be applied to all kinds of activities of representation, including public speaking, performance of music, drama, and dance.

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1. Main Message

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3. Image of Success

4. Storytelling

5. Exploration of Words

6. Visual Power

7. Dramatic Modulation

8. Unexpected Evolution

9. Doors of Mystery

10. Beautiful Clarity

11. Perfect Portion

12. Cherry on Top

13. Mind Bridge

14. Reality Sharing15. Participation Driver

16. Quality in Details

17. Expression Coordinator

18. Discomfort Removing

19. Significant Void

20. Activation Switch

21. Take-Home Gift

22. Stage Building

23. Reminders of Success

24. Construction of Confidence

25. Presentership26. Best Effort

27. Personally for You

28. Invitation to the World

29. Improvised Presentation

30. Reflecting Forwards

31. Unique Presenter

32. Aesthetics of Presenting

33. Be Authentic!

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Hand out a gift for the audience to take home that would remind them of the details of the presentation.

The gift may be a brochure or a card that reminds them of your presentation. It should be attractive so that the listeners would want to take it home and share your ideas to someone who was not at the presentation.

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The gift would remind the people who were at the place about the presentation. It can also be used to easily spread your ideas to people who were not at the presentation. Through the process of making the Take-Home Gift, the speaker can re-recognize the Main Message (No.75) of their speech.

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1. Main Message

2. Touching Gift

3. Image of Success

4. Storytelling

5. Exploration of Words

6. Visual Power

7. Dramatic Modulation

8. Unexpected Evolution

9. Doors of Mystery

10. Beautiful Clarity

11. Perfect Portion

12. Cherry on Top

13. Mind Bridge

14. Reality Sharing15. Participation Driver

16. Quality in Details

17. Expression Coordinator

18. Discomfort Removing

19. Significant Void

20. Activation Switch

21. Take-Home Gift

22. Stage Building

23. Reminders of Success

24. Construction of Confidence

25. Presentership26. Best Effort

27. Personally for You

28. Invitation to the World

29. Improvised Presentation

30. Reflecting Forwards

31. Unique Presenter

32. Aesthetics of Presenting

33. Be Authentic!

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Glasses of Recognition

Triggers for Narrative & Dialogue

Basis of Self-Confidence

The Functions of Pattern Languages

Patterns in pattern languages can function as a concept to recognize things. They support humans by becoming what can be called Glasses of Recognition.


These glasses give its users a new perspective to the world around them.


With the patterns in their minds, they can recognize the parts of experience corresponding to patterns.

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For example, when you want to reflect on your experience of presentations, the Presentation Patterns can function as Glasses of Recognition to look at and understand your experience.


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To help people reflect on their experience with using a pattern language, I usually hold dialogue workshops, where participants talk about their experiences with each other using the pattern language.


We’ve held more than 40 workshops for various targets, in various domains, and in various places with using our pattern languages; The total number of participants are about 4,000 people.

The workshop first asks participants to read the all patterns beforehand, and list the patterns that they have already experienced.

They would also make a list of five patterns in which they wish to use in the near future.

With the list of the five patterns in their hands, the participants would walk around at the workshop searching for other participants who have already experienced one of the patterns on the list.

Once they find a match, the one who has experienced the pattern would talk about the experience, and the other person would listen to it and take notes.

Although a simple structure, the workshop fosters unexpected excitement among participants.

In daily conversations, we tend to think the episodes of our experiences of ordinary activities are pointless to talk about.

These seemingly useless episodes are given meaning by applying it to one of the patterns, lowering the bar to share it.

And, the positive feedback from the other participants who wish to listen to the story would encourage them to talk to more people about their experiences.

The positive chain of episodes and feedback adds up to warm up the atmosphere and bring excitement to the workshop. This excitement will help participants to think, learn, and talk about the patterns.









By using pattern languages as triggers for narrative and dialogue we can become conscious of the parts of our experiences we normally do not notice, and inspect it through dialogues.



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Stories of the experience will not only stimulate conversations, but also would create an opportunity to reflect on one's own styles. As a result, we will gain self-confidence.



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A Pattern Language for Creative PresentationsDialog Workshopwith the Presentation Patterns

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Doors"of"Mystery"Beau,ful"Clarity"Perfect"Por,on"Cherry"on"Top"Mind"Bridge"

Reality"Sharing"Par,cipa,on"Driver"Quality"in"Details"

Expression"Coordinator"Discomfort"Removing"

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Findings about the Self

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"At first I was afraid of embarrassing myself because I thought there won't be any patterns I already have experience with, but it was surprising to look at my own results --- many of the patterns I was already doing as daily habits."

"By checking the patterns that I was already able to do, I was able to find out my strengths. These points I felt proud sharing experiences about them with others, and it also brought up my motivation to make them even stronger.


"Even though I didn't know of the patterns, I found out I was already doing many of the Presentation Patterns when I do dance performances.

"The workshop was a good opportunity to reflect on my experiences in high school. I was able to find out how much I can't do, but at the same time I was able to find out the thing only I can do."


"The workshop helped me realize of my weaknesses and bad habits - it gave me a good chance to start fixing them before I graduate from high school."

“The workshop helped me remember of these past episodes - and more important - how much I could already do.”









"The workshop gave me a chance to get to know things about my peers that I usually don't see when I talk with them."


"I think the workshop gives its participants a good experience in that it gives us an opportunity to ask questions for our own growth, and then answer questions of others with our own experiences. Such an opportunity is hard to achieve in our daily conversations - especially with so many people."


"The workshop was fresh and interesting in seeing how people pull many different interpretations and experiences out from the same pattern."

"It was fun listening to stories about my peers doing things that I can't yet do. It was interesting how the experiences differed from person to person.

"It was astonishing to see all the different skills and experiences that my peers had that I didn't have. It made me think of how much we could do if we could put all of our skills and experiences together."


"Even in such a small community where we spend much time together at school, I couldn't find anyone who had checked the exact same patterns as mine. It was also surprising that most everyone I talked to had experience with at least one of the patterns I wanted to know more about."









"I am usually shy and don't like talking to people I don't know. I always get worried if my talks are boring when people are listening. But by circling the patterns in this workshop, I found out that I can do more than I thought, and I was able to become a little more confident talking about my experiences. "

"At first I felt shy and didn't want to talk as much, but soon it became fun searching for people with patterns and talking to them."


"At first I felt shy and could only talk to the people I already knew. But as the workshop went on it became fun talking and listening with people and I was able to become more proactive. I am usually shy talking to people so I was surprised by myself how I was being able to communicate."











"The various experiences by my various peers were interesting to hear about. Stories about their experiences made me want to become more active."

“Talking about my own experiences was something I've never done in the past, but it wasn't hard as I thought and I was able to enjoy it."


"The workshop was a very fresh experience. Not just listening to other people talk, but seeing people getting convinced by my talks was something I never experienced before. As the workshop went on I got used to the process, and I was able to actively go out searching for new ideas from people. These ideas became seeds of new findings about myself."

"Even though I thought my experiences were uninteresting and useless, by seeing people listening to them seriously and taking notes on them, I became able to talk about the experience with more confidence."









"It was good that the workshop made us stand up and move to hear real-life experiences of our peers instead of just reading the words on in a book. The detailed and realistic episodes made me feel that I could do the same too."

"The actual experiences by my peers made me think I can do similarly in my future presentations too."

"I was able to feel the possibility for my future growth by finding out how my peers are able to do things that I can't yet do."


"It was helpful to hear experiences by my peers on the patterns that I wanted to use in the future. The stories made me feel that if I put enough effort into it, the I would become able to do them too."

"I have been wondering of things I could do to improve my skills. The talks with my classmates gave me realizations on so many things I could start doing. I can now start small and take in the stories I heard into my own context."














Glasses of Recognition Triggers for Narrative & Dialogue Basis of Self-Confidence

Pattern Languages

Creative Society


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CreativeSocietyDiscovery media support the

creative acts of the people.


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Takashi IbaAssociate Professor at Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University

Ph.D. in Media and Governanceiba @ sfc.keio.ac.jp