WHO WE ARE

Wednesday June 24th
4:00-5:30pm
100 Grand Street, NY NY 10013
5:30 (approx) onward: Tapas and Sangria at L’asso down the street at Kenmare and Mott.

Join PortiCo Prophet and Hedwig Dances for a rare and up-close glimpse into how collaboration, improvisation, and the power of co-creation are brought to life.   

Followed by complimentary tapas and discussion at L'asso 5:30-7:00 pm

Please join us at our latest NYC-based ethnographic adventure in co-creation, as we explore the rich potential of the unknown. Experience co-creation where it thrives--in open spaces and among willing creators. 

Leave inspired and full of possibility.

Collaboration comes to life with contemporary dance company Hedwig Dances. Founder and choreographer Jan Bartoszek will lead this event and discuss the importance of co-creation in choreography and in innovation strategies more generally. She will also guide us through our own experiments with improvisational movement, where we can push boundaries and explore the unknown.

Let's not just talk about co-creation. Let's experience it.  

As the world changes rapidly around us, PortiCo Prophet is focused not just on observing change but creating it too, exploring new ways to innovate.  The cultural shifts of this new era have led to an emerging operating system: co-creation.  PortiCo Prophet is positioned to help companies make the transformation to align with this new world — and our "Melt-Up" Events are an opportunity for you to harness co-creation and take steps toward shifting your future.

For a map and directions click here
Please RSVP to caroline@poticoresearch.com
Dress comfortably – we will be in an active dance studio.

 

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Thanks so much for making our first Los Angeles MELT-UP such a huge success! The day was filled with collaboratively inspired learnings in design, art, and trends, music, new thinking, co-creative art projects…and yes, cupcakes. We hope you left feeling as inspired and renewed as we did.

Today’s marketplace requires innovation and new ways of working together, and the Melt-Up sought to bring our friends and clients into co-creative mode through inter-activities featuring the PortiCo Prophet team. Our transformational team helps guide participants into a new business paradigm through creative expansion, emerging trend discussions, consumer-pull strategy, and creative facilitating. The team includes senior PortiCo Research marketing professionals, creative facilitators, and team management experts. For more on the Prophet transformational team visit our website at www.porticoprophet.com.

We're excited to help your organizations and consumers stay inspired and melt-up with customized co-creative transformational sessions. For more information on how we can facilitate, please see our website, www.porticoprophet.com, or feel free to contact PortiCo Alliance member Anna McGrath via email at anna@ywonderworks.com or phone +1 415 255 9286.

For more pictures of the event, follow the link: http://www.nomadlosangeles.com/portico/

An extra special "thank you" to Benley Vietnamese Kitchen and Dots Cupcakes for the treats, and Nomad Art Compound for hosting and participating in this event.

 

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Friday March 27th
12:30-3:00 pm
Nomad Art Compound

Welcome Co-Creators,

As the world changes rapidly around us, we at PortiCo Prophet are focused on not only keeping up but finding meaning in the unknown. The cultural shifts of this new era have led to an emerging operating system: co-creation. So in a time when things appear to be "melting down," how can we go beyond thinking about rebuilding to thinking about reinvention? How does adversity spur innovation? What does "co-creation" look like when it comes to life? PortiCo Prophet is aligned to help companies make the transformation into this new world — and our "Melt-Up" is an opportunity for you to co-create with the best of them.

Our host Damon Robinson will guide us through his studio space and art lab, Nomad Art Compound, and will curate his current exhibit, "From the Inside the Forest is Invisible" by the artists collaborative Goldmine Shithouse. He'll also help us to dive into to his art lab and collaborate to make our own creations.

The PortiCo Prophet team will introduce some of our thinking about co-creation. Brooke will inspire and stimulate our imagination through an exposure to global trends in creativity. Scott will discuss some of the key cultural shifts we have observed that are the catalyst for the co-creative world we live in. And Anna will facilitate our own group co-creative experience, expanding our willingness to explore the unknown.

Come explore this world of co-creativity with us at a fun, challenging and thought-provoking event. We promise to fill you up, mix you up and melt you up!

Please RSVP to smoshier@porticoresearch.com

Dress warmish and for a mess – we will be in an active art studio. Lunch will be provided.

Hope you can join us. And invite your teammates. Invite your nemesis. Invite anyone you need to co-create with.

Nomad Art Compound
1993 Blake Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90039

For a map and directions click here.
There is limited parking on site, but plenty of nearby street-parking available.

And on Saturday night (March 28th) Nomad will be hosting a closing party for Goldmine Shithouse's exhibit, "From the Inside the Forest is Invisible." Whether or not you can join our Melt-Up come by Nomad to hear some great live music, meet the artists, witness a silkscreen throwdown and check out LA-style co-creation in action.

 

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Volume 1: The Stimulus Package
Friday, March 6th from 1 to approx. 3pm
Lunch at Indian Taj Restaurant and visit the PULSE Art Fair-NYC

Let's learn from each other and the world around us. There's no better time than now to come together for mutual inspiration. We are all in this economic crisis together—our clients, our customers, our city — so we might as well have a good time together too.

PortiCo is offering a Stimulus Package of a different sort. Stimulate your senses, stimulate new ideas and innovation, stimulate dialogue. Most of all, stimulate positive energy. Consider this adventure an introduction (or for some a reintroduction) to the modern-day cultural anthropology we call Ethnographic Research.

On this first round, we'll be exploring the world's finest contemporary art collections at PULSE, New York's premier art fair. The fair will present today's leading international galleries and artists—both established and emerging. Last year, 95 galleries participated, representing over 26 countries. 12,000 visitors came together from various corners of the world to enjoy the event. As New Yorker's, we have the unique opportunity to experience this stimulating international event in our own backyard.

Apart from the profound learnings you can take home to your clients, co-workers and customers... We know the real excuse to join us is the free food. That's right! FREE FOOD in a time of tightening our belts, We invite you to relax and join us for some good eats at Indian Taj in Greenwich Village before heading over to check out the art fair.

This year's event will feature many, many inspiring installations. Here are a few that we at PortiCo are excited about:

Sameness, Difference and Desire
In making sense of the visual world the human eye scans constantly, and then when objects of interest are identified the mind is engaged and starts making distinctions with other previously identified objects,; Are they the same or different? If different, how are they different? If the same, are they the same, similar or two iterations of the same phenomenon? This is true if the objects under consideration are fellow humans or products on the supermarket shelf. Somehow in this visual perusal the close examination leads to inchoate feelings of desire, some for sameness, some for difference. In this selection of international video artists this process of comparison provoking desire is replayed in each video in ways that are also both exactly the same and completely different.

Almond Zigmund
Remembering the Future
Drawing on a variety of sources Remembering the Future is an ongoing series investigating the notion of public space and "non-place", a term coined by French anthropologist and theorist Marc Augé. Orange Façade Box I & II, part of this series, is a sculptural arrangement that creates a space that is neither useful in an architectural sense nor passive, as a non-place. Its form evokes minimalist notions of production and essentialism while creating a fanciful and lyrical homage to the desire for beauty vis-à-vis appropriation of industrial decoration and high-keyed hue.

Leonardo Drew
Number 90
Drew is known for his dynamic large-scale sculptural installations, which incorporate created, manipulated and found materials such as paper, cotton, children's toys, cast paper, rust and mud. On the one hand, Drew's sculptures can be seen as exercises in formalism rooted in the very experience of looking. On the other hand, these works explore memory through materiality, employing the detritus of human experience within our diverse histories.

For more info on this and future events please contact alissa@porticoresearch.com

The Cultural Immersion Tour Series
Learning from each other and the rapidly changing world around us is important now, more than ever before. In today's economy, consumer attitudes and the public and privately held meanings that inform them are constantly evolving. To make sure that we all keep up, PortiCo is hosting a new series of Cultural Immersion tours, beginning in New York City, to introduce (or reintroduce) ethnographic research and PortiCo to our friends and clients.

Because ethnographic research is rooted in cultural anthropology, we find it fitting (and fun!) to host tours of the most vibrant and culturally diverse cities that we at PortiCo have grown to know and love. And, because consumers are our main source of information and inspiration, we bring direct consumer contact to our clients, aiming to show real moments of meaning and experience from the lens of those around us in the city.

Inspired by the importance of a positive attitude amidst the prevailing economic climate, the tours serve as an excuse to leave financial woes at the door and indulge in some free, local fun over lunch breaks. We have also found from our own experience in the field that stepping into others' shoes is a dynamic way to open oneself up to creative thinking about market strategy and business development.

The first Lunch & Learn event will be taking place in March during New York's Art Week. Coming up is a series of events showcasing emerging markets: the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China).