Appalachian School of Technologies & Arts

converging our yesterday, now & future

Do the stats on Appalachia just make you tired?

Photos: clockwise, Phil & Pam, Crabchick, The Tire Zoo, Just Taken Pics, Creative Commons Attribution Licence

This is not another
dull presentation on stats!!

You can go find those stats you need at:Www.census.gov

Www.arc.gov

Www.wvpolicy.org

This is a presentation about

What the goal of community is

What it takes to make a community thrive

How Appalachia has the right conditions for innovation, after all

Why a school for technologies & arts in Appalachia

The goal of community can be summed up in one word

Survival

If you don't have these

a community can't survive

What else does it take
for a community to survive?

Different strokes for different folks in different parts of the world, but can be summed up as:

The BasicsOther people

Food enough to get old enough to have more people

Clean enough water

Clean enough soil to plant

Stuff to plant to grow (or food from some other source)

Protection from the elements

Okay, not many of us these days would be happy with that list being enough, yet those form a fairly basic list of how to ensure community survival.

Here is what that seems to take in the current American context OR:

The Real Deal (see the last slide for a list of references to back this up)Something meaningful for people to do together with other people

Geographic access to other communities with relative ease

Diverse economic possibilities, one economic sector does not dominate

Diverse knowledge and specializations

Political will to support the basics of and the real deal of community survival

Ways to solve the issues that go along with the basics & the real deal of community survival including educational, technological, creative & social structures

To evaluate the potential for a community to survive, then, is not so complicated...what does the community do to fulfill the basics & the real deal?

The Basics + the Real Deal = a community that

THRIVES

Alert! Switch of gears!

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What you know about innovation is probably wrong, thus...this list:

Things don't have to be destroyed in order for innovation to occur.

It is not only something that big companies do.

It does not have to take a lot of money.

The classic definition is of an invention that gets dispersed by an entrepreneur. No set definition on what dispersion means. Thus, if something gets invented in a small community and dispersed throughout that small community, that is as much innovation as any invention dispersed to millions of people

Innovation is not about high tech. Innovation can be social, political, technogical, creative, etc....

Innovation is not only about making money. Innovation can be about other goals, like supporting the goals of community survival and thrival.

Elderly people and people without formal education can also innovate.

You can learn to think inventively and learn how to innovate.

Okay, so what do you need for innovation?

Diverse and divergent elements coming together

How we got the right conditions in Appalachia for innovation

People with heritage knowledge and skills (think: know how to do the basics of community using the basics)

People with modern (last 100 years) knowledge and skills (think: the energy age, the electric age, ICT)

People with emerging knowledge and skills (think: upcoming and on the horizon like robotics)

What does innovation have to do with community?

Survival

Cliches, cliches, cliches, yet

better said:

Innovate or die!

Let's look at this list again.

The BasicsOther people

Food enough to get old enough to have more people

Clean enough water

Clean enough soil to plant

Stuff to plant to grow (or food from some other source)

Protection from the elements

Okay, not many of us these days would be happy with that list being enough, yet those form a fairly basic list of how to ensure community survival.

Here is what that seems to take in the current American context OR:

The Real Deal (see the last slide for a list of references to back this up)Something meaningful for people to do together with other people

Geographic access to other communities with relative ease

Diverse economic possibilities, one economic sector does not dominate

Diverse knowledge and specializations

Political will to support the basics of and the real deal of community survival

Ways to solve the issues that go along with the basics & the real deal of community survival including educational, technological, creative & social structures

How does your community invent and innovate to support community survival??

One more time!

How does your community invent and innovate to support community survival??

NoCommunity Survival and Thrival Chart

Does X fill a Basic Need?

Is X a Real Deal?

NoWill X last longterm? For generations?

NoSooner or later it will be a raw deal.

Does X fill a Basic Need?

YesYesYesYesNoProbably not a top priority then

See the other side of this chart

X = Top Priority for the Community!

Is X a Real Deal?

Yes

No

See the other side of this chart

Probably not a top priority then

It's a win!

Essential to create and to support a physical place for divergent people to converge to create inventions and innovation

That's why the big or in-the-know players do it on purpose....

No need to reinvent the wheel on how to innovate for community survival (when we got other urgent work to do, too!). Lots of great models out there to draw on, to name only a few...

That place for community & innovation in Appalachia?

Appalachian School of Technologies & Arts!!

Are you in?

Go to

AppalachianSchoolofTechnologiesandArts.org

to learn more and to get involved!

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