liminal × un global pulse

through liminal, i have been involved in co-facilitating a creative ai workshop for un global pulse, the united nations' innovation initiative, using adobe firefly boards. the purpose is practical: helping people inside an international organization understand how emerging creative technology can fit into their actual work.

the room is mixed and mostly non-technical * policy, operations, research, communications. designing for that range means the exercises have to be accessible first and impressive second. nobody should need a prompt-engineering vocabulary to participate.

each exercise introduces the technology through making rather than lecture, so the tool is learned by using it on something that matters to the participant. firefly boards keeps the making visual, collaborative, and immediate, which is the point for a room that needs to see what the tool changes, not hear about it. (detailed exercise documentation to come.)

my role in the room is co-facilitation: helping participants understand and apply the tools as they work, translating the technology into terms that match their own jobs, and keeping the pace usable for the least technical person present. facilitating is its own design problem * the workshop is the product.

(genuine observations and lessons from the workshop will be added here as documentation becomes available.)