About Learn Do Share

Learn Do Share (LDS) is a grassroots innovation engine; a combination of events, labs and peer production. We are a community for open collaboration, design fiction and social innovation.

The three words LEARN, DO and SHARE embody our philosophy: we learn from everyone. we do by prototyping. we share what we learn.

Our events and labs are gatherings for ad-hoc groups to meet, ideate and work out concepts for a common good.

Our peer production cycles help groups stay together to co-create prototypes of their collective imaginations. The most prominent are Caine’s Arcade, My Sky Is Falling, and The BUKE.

Our books, documentaries and projects are carried forth by our participants to inspire other people to do the same.

Our Learn Do Share methodology and framework, which we like to call an OS (operating system) is being adapted by Universities, organizations and makerspaces as a tool to help tackle wicked problems by harnessing storytelling, play, designing thinking and collaboration. Over the last four years, we’ve collaborated with Jorgen van der Sloot and FreedomLab to design and prototype a social innovation lab to explore solutions for complex problems. The Learn Do Share lab runs at our events as well as having been staged for Columbia University, the UN, the City of Los Angeles, UNICEF and the Danish Government.

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LEARN DO SHARE is an exploration into participatory systems, collaborative spaces, share culture and self-propelled creativity. Written and designed by volunteers, the aim is to spread storytelling and playful collaboration as a way to learn, do and share. Working within an open design environment both locally and globally, we hope to have a positive effect on creative communities, building a knowledge base around collaboration as a path to experiential learning and social innovation. If you’re interested in helping, drop us a line at [email protected].

LEARN through projects and case studies to understand how people collaborate to leverage collective creativity and to harness possibilities for creative entrepreneurs. We’ll provide a toolset for open designs, prototyping and experimental storytelling as well as a network that touches into projects that are open to collaboration.

DO by collaborating on projects or taking part in our labs. Together, we want to explore social innovation by blending storytelling, co-creation and experiential learning.

SHARE your skills, experiences and projects. “What are you working on what do you need?” is the guiding principle. We’re building a collective of highly skilled creatives who support each other as friends with the added benefits of learning, community and opportunity.

As a whole, we think of this as a social innovation engine grounded in reflections on co-creative practice. Our goal is to find ways for creatives to sustain themselves through collaboration and to shape the efficiency and positive impact of participatory culture.