TEDxCanberra

Ambition

We live for cre­ativ­ity, but under­stand deeply that cre­at­ing alone is dif­fi­cult and often dis­heart­en­ing work. Cre­ation hap­pens best when many minds come together, bring­ing knowl­edge, inspi­ra­tion and ideas to catal­yse some­thing new. The best cre­ations of all come from many dis­ci­plines, stitch­ing together the “head” and the “heart” in a blend of art, design, […]

The New New Thing

The New New Thing

With the new year rapidly approach­ing, it’s prob­a­bly about time I wrote this down. As of Jan­u­ary 2012, acid­labs will change its shape con­sid­er­ably. More than any­thing, this site will go back to being my per­sonal site  —  a place where I write down my thoughts and mus­ings on any num­ber of things from pol­i­tics to col­lab­o­ra­tion, big […]

TEDxCanberra — A dream fulfilled

What takes 250 of my hours over eight months and count­less other vol­un­teer hours, about $20,000, a team of 12, a 3-​​​​camera film crew, a national mon­u­ment, a fair bit of missed sleep, a heap of run­ning around, 18 pre­sen­ters and nearly 300 atten­dees from all over the East­ern states? The answer is TEDx­Can­berra. And […]

About

acid­labs is the brain­child of Stephen Collins, where he writes about issues that inter­est him includ­ing organ­i­sa­tional change for the 21st Cen­tury, col­lab­o­ra­tion and social busi­ness, open gov­ern­ment, inno­va­tion, big think­ing and Big Hairy Auda­cious Goals for soci­ety and the state of the uni­verse. acid­labs is an inno­va­tion and action col­lab­o­ra­tive  —  pow­ered by the enthu­si­asm and brain power of a group […]

Meet

The quick, infor­mal ver­sion… Stephen, often known as @trib, is a pro­fes­sional loud­mouth and icon­o­clast. Also comms guy, experience/​​service designer, social busi­nesseer, col­lab­o­ra­tor, Open Gov and Gov 2.0 advo­cate,  TEDi­zen and Cre­ative Cat­a­lyst for TEDx­Can­berra, occa­sional WoW player, back-​​​​of the pack triath­lete, hus­band, Dad and rugby tragic. Stephen can be found all over the web at: […]