Idea Society
Idea Society · 2010 to 2012

Where MethodKit comes from.

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.

See the projects Four early works · 2009 to 2012
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The shift
Creativity
↓
Method
2010founded in Sweden
4early projects
6cities exhibited in
→became MethodKit

The projects

Before the methods, there was the work. Photo-journalism, books and exhibitions that asked how a place, a country, or an art scene could be shown by the people inside it.

2009Two young people at dusk

The Photobook about Sweden

Citizen photo-journalism: 44 young photographers depicting Sweden. A book translated into seven languages, exhibited from Stockholm to Buenos Aires, and awarded Best Practice 2009 by the EU.

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2009A figure draped in cloth on a misty lawn

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.

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2010Three children in a weathered window

Georgia Storiesამბები საქართველოი

34 young Georgian photographers showing everyday life. 1,400 photos submitted, 41 selected. The opening at Tbilisi's Rustaveli Theatre drew 400 people and ran across Georgia's major TV channels, then travelled to Stockholm.

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2012Idea Society lightbulb mark

Project of How

A searchable bank of creativity methods, the first to categorize and search methods on the web. Funded by the City of Stockholm, the Ministry of Culture and the EU. Here the turn toward method development began.

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From creativity to method.

The projects taught us that the hard part was never the idea. It was the how. So we built tools for it, and Idea Society became MethodKit.

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