About The People Speak
The People Speak develops ideas, technologies and strategies for bringing people together to have conversations and discussions in an open-ended and fun way. We design events, architectures, systems and processes in which people are encouraged to express themselves, share ideas, flirt, and be as creative as they can.
What?
With over a decade of experience in this unique field, The People Speak has brought you:
- Talkaoke: The flying saucer of chat.
- Traffic Island-Disks: Soundtracks to the City.
- One Night Grandstand: Turning your local kick-about into a stadium for a night.
- Who Wants to Be?: The Direct Democracy game show. (website coming soon!)
- upcoming R&D: Directionless Enquiries, The Dicshunary, The Distributed Library Project and more...
More information about each of these 'tools' can be found on their respective websites, and an overview is also avialable in this downloadable information pack (pdf 1.6 MB).
Why?
The People Speak projects are experimental communication forms that put the 'me' back into 'media'. We like things that are easy to explain: a chat show , a radio interview, a word or even a soccer kick-about. No instruction manual is required. We also like to have as much fun and get just as involved as everyone else.
Who?
The People Speak has a core team: Mikey Wienkove, Rick Sleiman, Wojciech Kosma and Saul Albert, backed by an expanding network of wonderfully skilled people, organised into teams for the needs of each project. More information on the team members can be found on the people page.
How?
It's easy. All these fun DIY media projects are available for events, festivals, local broadcast or Internet streaming channels, training and education events. We are always interested in the challenge of adapting and developing The People Speak projects for new situations. These are our tools, you can use them too! Just get in touch.