I am excited to announce the commencement of active development on Thingk.com, which will be the first of several partner sites centered around the activity of bringing ‘thingks’ into reality. This site is for the community with the intention of inspiring people from all backgrounds and walks of life to engage in creative activity. Ultimately, it is hoped that as people create ‘thingks’, meaningful patterns will emerge to give new discoveries for life’s works, lifelong endeavours, and previously unimagined collaborations between individuals.
A thingk, quite simply, is both an idea that someone passionately pursued/is pursuing and the thing which it was/is becoming when manifested. Since someone (we will call them the creator of the idea) is passionate about the idea, we can’t just call it a thought, but instead borrow a present-tense term from David Bohm and call it a think. Since it existed/exists/will exist somewhere, we also call it a thing. Combining the two words into a portmanteau, we call it a Thingk.
In order to qualify as a thingk, the following must happen to a person’s creation (whether it starts as a thought or a thing in the beginning is irrelevant) in any order:
- A burst of inspiration or a careful design process must bring a thing into the world* whose existence can be confirmed by a resource identifier.
- A thought or thoughts become so activated in the person’s consciousness so as to be qualified as a think or thinks.
- The intention to create something from an activated think or thinks or the intention to express the thinks behind a created thing must be present.
* The thing can exist physically or virtually but must have a computer-accessible and verifiable international resource identifier.
Thus, once the intention, the thing (whether existent or not), and the activated thought (whether expressed or not) come together we have a Thingk. Stated another way:
think(s) + intention to create something= thingk
or
thing + intention to express underlying think(s) = thingk
When the think- or thing- component(s) of the thingk is partially or fully intention it is a Thingk-in-formation; once intention becomes reality, and there exists both thinks and a thing, it is now considered a Thingk.
The purpose of this site will be as follows:
- By providing a framework to organize the creative process (with associated tools, privacy mechanisms, and attribution), it is believed that the site will increase the quality of all participants’ creative endeavours.
- By allowing someone to release their work to selected individual(s), group(s), or the public at large, valuable feedback mechanisms will increase the quality of work as well as inspire others to new work.
- Both technology and community are expected to further enhance and encourage the creative process for all participants.
- By getting to the kernel of the creative process, it is desired that things we see in the world are matched with the thinks that inspired them or the thinks we hear in the world are seen manifesting into actual things.
- By allowing individuals to catalog the creative process in (hopefully) painless ways with minimal effort, new interconnections can be found between ideas (thinks), creations (things), people (creators), and the thingks which inspired it all. In other words, we expect lots of new discoveries in terms of collaborations, career paths, and systems effects we were not even aware of.
- Finally, this site intends to lead all users into deeper exploration with their created Thingks, the Thingks that inspire them, and the resonances they imply. This is meant to span the lifetime of both Thingk(s) and their creator(s). It is envisioned that initial thingk(s) [prototypes are encouraged] may expand far beyond the scope originally envisioned.
This site is an application of Static Pattern Engineering technology as well as a member of the PatternSmithing Alliance. It will be based on Semantic Web technology.
I am actively seeking collaborators, founders, research associates, future users, and future employees. All feedback is welcome.