Give different kinds of creativity a reason to meet.

A useful gathering can create a relationship that none of its participants could supply alone. A technical idea meets a design question. An environmental purpose meets a practical tool. A person finds another perspective that changes what becomes possible next.

Howard Pearlmutter has organized creative, co-creative, and eco-creative gatherings since 1980. By 2006, the record already included more than forty community events.

His early Silicon Valley gatherings connected people around graphics, interaction, media, and emerging computational possibilities. His environmental and community work brought related questions into other settings.

The gathering itself is a designed experience. Who is in the room? What do they have a reason to share? What artifact, question, or demonstration gives the exchange a useful center?

The purpose may be learning, exploration, collaboration, or participation in an emerging idea. Different purposes call for different forms.

Howard's experience includes executive briefings, hands-on workshops, multimedia events, public seminars, and cross-disciplinary conversations across five continents. Practical software and research give the shared subject foundations beyond presentation alone.

For an ecological topic, a gathering can help people examine a model, compare interpretations, or connect specialized knowledge with a wider purpose. It can also make room for creative perspectives an ordinary technical meeting does not invite.

Read the Brower occasion, NASA's human question, and ecological design.

A learning session can be shaped around your participants and question. A visual inquiry can supply an artifact for people to examine together.

Begin with what becomes more interesting when the right people can bring different knowledge into the same encounter.