Idea Society  ·  Stockholm Archive  ·  2010 to 2012
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Idea
Society

A Swedish organisation founded in 2010 with one aim: to democratize creativity. We later became MethodKit, after deciding to focus on method development. Project of How, in 2012, was the first project that took us along that path. Later MethodKit was released and became the main focus.

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Projects

Four works, 2009 to 2012
2009Photo / Book

The Photobook
about Sweden

A citizen photo-journalism project: 44 young photographers depicting Sweden. Published as a book, translated into seven languages, and exhibited in Stockholm, St Petersburg, Moscow, Tbilisi, Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Awarded Best Practice 2009 by the EU.

Read the book
Two young people at dusk, from The Photobook about Sweden
Plate I. From the book, 44 photographers depicting Sweden.
2009Art / Book

This Must
Be The Place

A book on contemporary art featuring 43 Swedish artists. The release and exhibition were held at an unmarked address in Stockholm, and still drew 900 people through the door.

Read the e-book
A figure draped in cloth on a misty lawn, from This Must Be The Place
Plate II. 43 young Swedish contemporary artists.
2010Photo / Exhibition

Georgia Storiesამბები საქართველოი

34 young Georgian photographers showing pieces of their everyday life. 1,400 photographs were submitted and 41 selected. The exhibition opened at the Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi to around 400 people, was reported across Georgia's three major TV channels, and travelled to Stockholm in 2011.

See the exhibition
Three children in a weathered window, photographed for Georgia Stories
Plate III. Picture by Nino Samkharadze, Tbilisi.
2012Method / Web

Project
of How

A searchable bank of creativity methods, the first of its kind to categorize and search methods on the web. Funded by the City of Stockholm, the Swedish Ministry of Culture and the EU, and co-founded with four other Hyper Island graduates. This is where the turn toward method development began.

Browse the methods
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Plate IV. The pivot. From creativity to method.

From democratizing creativity to developing the methods that make it repeatable. Idea Society became MethodKit.