Pattern Languages as Media for the Creative Society (COINs2013)

Takashi Iba
Associate Professor at Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
Ph.D. in Media and Governance
iba @ 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.
Future

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.
Present
?Future

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.
Present
?Future
Past

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."
Present
Past
Consumptive
Society
Communicative
SocietyC CCConsumption Communication Creation
Consumptive
Society
Communication
Society
Creative
Society
C CCConsumption Communication Cre
Consumptive
Society
Communication
Society
Cre
So

Many of what used to be just end consumers receiving
the products have now become senders of their own
information.
Present
Past
Consumptive
Society
Communicative
SocietyC CCConsumption Communication Creation
Consumptive
Society
Communication
Society
Creative
Society
C CCConsumption Communication Cre
Consumptive
Society
Communication
Society
Cre
So

And, I see the next age to be full of people each
CREATING things for their own good.
Present
Past
Consumptive
Society
Communicative
Society
C CCConsumption Communication Creation
Consumptive
Society
Communication
Society
Creative
Society
Future
Creative
Society
Consumptive
Society
Communication
Society
Creative
Society
Consumptive
Society
Communication
Society
Creative
Society

In this talk, this new society to come is called the
Creative Society.
Present
Past
Consumptive
Society
Communicative
Society
Consumptive
Society
Communication
Society
Creative
Society
Future
Creative
Society
Consumptive
Society
Communication
Society
Creative
Society
Consumptive
Society
Communication
Society
Creative
Society

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

Creation in this society is no longer limited to just
companies, but is entrusted to the individuals.
Creative
Society
C Cn Communication Creation
e Communication
Society
Creative
Society

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.
media
discovery media

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.
media
discovery media

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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Pattern Language

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

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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Context
Problem
Solution
Problem Finding
Problem Solving
Name

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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Go Natural
Some beauty comes naturally
Solution
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Problem
Youarealwaysputtingonmakeup
becauseyoudon’thavemuch
confidenceinyourbareface.
You get such used to having makeup
on that you don’t want to meet anyone
when you don’t have any on.
Try adjusting the amount of
makeup based on
the occurrence and the people
you are going to meet.
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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Collaboration Patterns Project
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飛躍のための仕込み
世界を変える力
クオリティ・ライン
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一度こわす
期待を超える
ファンをつくる
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Creative Presentation
Main Message
Touching Gift
Image of Success
Storytelling
Exploration of Words
Visual Power
Dramatic Modulation
Unexpected Evolution
Doors of Mystery
Beautiful Clarity
Perfect Portion
Cherry on Top
Mind Bridge
Reality Sharing
Participation Driver
Quality in Details
Expression Coordinator
Discomfort Removing
Significant Void
Activation Switch
Take-Home Gift
Stage Building
Reminders of Success
Construction of Confidence
Presentership
Best Effort
Personally for You
Invitation to the World
Improvised Presentation
Reflecting Forwards
Unique Presenter
Aesthetics of Presenting
Be Authentic!
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Design Your Learning
Making Opportunities
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Open-Process Learning
Jump In
Learning by Imitation
Effective Asking
Output-Driven Learning
Foreign Language Every Day
Playful Learning
Embodied Skills
Language Shower
Tangible Piles
Tornado of Learning
Triangle Scaling
Chain of Excitement!
Thinking in Action
Prototyping
Field Diving
Multi-Camera Shooting
A Bird's- & Bug's-Eye View
Hidden Connections
Frontier Finder
Creative Switch
Fruit Farming
Initial Draft Only Halfway
Attractive Expression
Acceleration to Next
Community of Learning
Good Rivals
Consequential Encounter
Firm Determination
Talking Thinker
Learning by Teaching
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Right Way
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Main Message
Touching Gift
Image of Success
Storytelling
Visual Power
Dramatic Modulation
Doors of Mystery
Beautiful Clarity
Perfect Portion
Cherry on Top
Mind Bridge
Reality Sharing
Quality in Details
Discomfort Removing
Signiﬁcant Void
Activation Switch
Take-Home Gift
Stage Building
Presentership
Best Eﬀort
Personally for You
Unique Presenter
Be Authentic!
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Creative Patterns
A Pattern Language of Learning,
Collaborations, and Presentations
in 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.
1. Learning Patterns
A Pattern Language
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Design Your Learning
Making Opportunities
Creative Project
Open-Process Learning
Jump In
Learning by Imitation
Effective Asking
Output-Driven Learning
Foreign Language Every Day
Playful Learning
Embodied Skills
Language Shower
Tangible Piles
Tornado of Learning
Triangle Scaling
Chain of Excitement!
Thinking in Action
Prototyping
Field Diving
Multi-Camera Shooting
A Bird's- & Bug's-Eye View
Hidden Connections
Frontier Finder
Creative Switch
Fruit Farming
Initial Draft Only Halfway
Attractive Expression
Acceleration to Next
Community of Learning
Good Rivals
Consequential Encounter
Firm Determination
Talking Thinker
Learning by Teaching
Obvious Reason
Right Way
Brave Change
Explorer's Passion
Self-Producing
Be Extreme!
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11. Language Shower
14. Triangle Scaling
17. Prototyping
19. Multi-Camera Shooting 24. Fruit Farming
27. Acceleration to Next
29. Good Rivals
5. Learning by Imitation
6. Eﬀective Asking
39. Be Extreme!
38. Slef-Producing
34. Obvious Reason
36. Brave Change
8. Foreign Language Every Day
9. Playful Learning
31. Firm Determination
33. Learning by Teaching
10. Embodied Skills
12. Tangible Piles
15. Chain of Excitement!
13. Tornade of Learning
16. Thinking in Action
18. Field Diving
21. Hidden Connections
20. A Bird’s- & Bug’s-Eye View
22. Frontier Finder
23. Creative Switch
25. Initial Draft Only Halfway
26. Attractive Expression
28. Community of Learning
30. Consequential Encounter
3. Open-Process
Learning
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2. Creative
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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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Creative Collaboration
Mission for the Future
Innovation of the Ways
Create a Legend
Spiral of Growth
Sympathetic Union
Response Rally
Feeling of Togetherness
Piece to Contribute
Return of Growth
Spontaneous Commitments
Loose Connections
Vulnerability Disclosure
Words of Thanks
Vigor of Emergence
Loaf of Time
Collaborative Field
Activity Footprints
Chaotic Path to Breakthrough
Ideas Taking Shape
Inside Innovator
Roadmap to the Goal
Improvised Roles
Spadework for Creativity
Power to Change The World
Quality Line
Creative Clashes
Generative Destruction
Beyond Expectations
Project Followers
Strategic Developments
Context of the World
Endurance to Continue Creating
Polishing Senses
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A Pattern Language for
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2. Collaboration Patterns
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Strategic
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Creative Clashes
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Generative
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Polishing
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Endurance to
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Context of
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Beyond
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Spadework for
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Improvised
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Roadmap to the
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Inside Innovator
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Ideas Taking Shape
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Chaotic Path to
Breakthrough
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Power to Change
The World
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Innovation
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Create a Legend
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Spiral of Growth
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Sympathetic Union
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Response Rally
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Words of Thanks11.
Loose Connections
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Vigor of Emergence
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Spontaneous
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Return of Growth
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Piece to Contribute

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.
3. Presentation Patterns
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Main Message
Touching Gift
Image of Success
Storytelling
Visual Power
Dramatic Modulation
Doors of Mystery
Beautiful Clarity
Perfect Portion
Cherry on Top
Mind Bridge
Reality Sharing
Quality in Details
Discomfort Removing
Significant Void
Activation Switch
Take-Home Gift
Stage Building
Presentership
Best Effort
Personally for You
Unique Presenter
Be Authentic!
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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 Sharing
15. 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!
0. Creative Presentation

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Take-Home Gift
A goody-bag full of ideas.
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You want your audience to take active responses to your Touching Gift
(No.76).
Your ideas struggle to spread even after the presentation.
It’s hard for the listeners to remember and talk about information they
only heard once to other people.
There is a limit to how much can be said in a single speech.
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.

It’s hard for the listeners to remember and talk about information they
only heard once to other people.
There is a limit to how much can be said in a single speech.
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.
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.

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 Sharing
15. 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!
0. Creative Presentation

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.
experience
as a whole
pattern
pattern pattern
pattern
Pattern Language
as Glasses of
Recognition

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.
experience
as a whole
pattern
pattern pattern
pattern
Pattern Language
as Glasses of
Recognition

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.
experience
as a whole
experience
as a whole
pattern pattern
pattern
pattern
Pattern Language
as Vocabulary for
Communication
pattern

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.
experience
as a whole
experience
as a whole
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pattern
pattern
Pattern Language
as Vocabulary for
Communication
pattern

The Functions of Pattern Languages

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Unexpected"Evolu,on"
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"
Significant"Void"
Ac,va,on"Switch"
TakeQHome"Gi;"
Stage"Building"
Reminders"of"Success"
Construc,on"of"Confidence"
Presentership"
Best"Effort"
Personally"for"You"
Invita,on"to"the"World"
Improvised"Presenta,on"
Reflec,ng"Forwards"
Unique"Presenter"
Aesthe,cs"of"Presen,ng"
Be"Authen,c!"

Findings about the Self
Findings about Others
Findings about their Own Potentiality
Overcoming of Shyness
Positive Chain of Communication

"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."

Pattern Languages
Creative Society
Consumptive
Society
Communication
Society
Creative
Society
Discovery media support the
creative acts of the people.

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Pattern Languages
Takashi Iba
Associate Professor at Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
Ph.D. in Media and Governance
iba @ sfc.keio.ac.jp

Pattern Languages as Media for the Creative Society (COINs2013)

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