https://voiceisalanguage.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/jackson-mac-low/

https://austinkleon.com/2018/03/04/card-games/

I'm reminded of early French use of playing cards for note taking here...

A game by Austin Kleon for making jam sessions less boring using cards.

Inspired by Oblique Strategies and The Creative Tarot.

http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

Digital version similar to WTFEngine.

https://www.oblique-strategies.com/

A web-based version similar to WTFEngine.

http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Acquire.html

http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Acute.html

Acute Strategies are a crowdsourced deck of advice and aphorisms collected by Gregory Taylor as an homage to the original deck of Oblique Strategies.

https://www.oblique.pouruntemps.com/

Looks like this was built with WTFEngine (https://github.com/soulwire/WTFEngine)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv7epY75Wa0

https://www.enoshop.co.uk/product/oblique-strategies?filter=Oblique%20Strategies

https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/z3f8kb/oblique_strategies_a_custom_zettelkasten_for/

Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt published a card index of un-numbered and purposefully unordered ideas in 1975 as a tool for increasing creativity. They called it "Oblique Strategies". Each card contained an aphorism for helping one to reframe their approach to problems or questions they faced.

Black box with cards containing aphorisms to help increase creativity. Photo by V&A Images from the David Bowie Archive.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies<br /> Canonical site with complete list of versions: http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/OSintro.html

ZK practitioners might profitably have a subsection in their box with these strategies to help themselves randomly increase their own creativity while working either inside or outside of their boxes. Potentially useful for writing, music, art, etc.

https://www.maier.co.uk/insights/oblique-strategies/

David Bowie used a pack of Eno/Schmidt's Oblique Strategies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRc7MUybCsE

Interview with BBC in which Brian Eno discusses the origin of his Oblique Strategies with Peter Schmidt.

Changing the order in which you do things. —Brian Eno, Oblique Strategies

This sounds like the sort of shift Walter Murch made in his sound editing by doing his first cut completely without sound. If you can't tell the story visually without sound the whole thing will fall apart. But you can use the sound, music, etc. to supplement, gild, and improve a picture.

https://www.openculture.com/2013/07/jump_start_your_creative_process_with_brian_eno_oblique_strategies.html

How might we ground Oblique Strategies in research-based outcomes?

Austin Kleon made his own deck of Oblique Strategies by handwriting them onto the front of playing cards with black sharpie.

Making my own Oblique Strategies deck. https://t.co/a1FpNifdLp pic.twitter.com/XsnRBt0GNW

— Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) November 1, 2015

What sorts of prompts or questions could teachers and learners use on a regular basis, similar to Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies, to improve their learning environments, creativity, and learning outcomes?

http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/OSintro.html

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s204/client/snv?noteGuid=5b7828b7-c4f9-4242-b62f-788eeb44c76e&noteKey=34f69bfeebbb6bca&sn=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.evernote.com%2Fshard%2Fs204%2Fsh%2F5b7828b7-c4f9-4242-b62f-788eeb44c76e%2F34f69bfeebbb6bca&title=Powerful%252C%2Bnon-judgmental%2Bquestions

Powerful, non-judgmental questions

• If you had to guess, what would have to be true for you to...?
• If you did know...
• (on tangent) ...and how does that relate to you?
• What's not allowing you to...?
• What prevents you from asking…?
• Do you want to go into this?
• What's your criteria for saying yes?
• What would have you say yes?
• What are the things we're lacking?
• What's the scary question that you're not asking?
• What are the qualities you want for [being, action, process, etc.]?
• How would you behave if you were the best in the world at what you do?

I'm starting a list of powerful, non-judgmental questions for coaching or just relationships in general. Here's the starting batch https://t.co/ktsYVxkQna pic.twitter.com/Dq1zQnWqAS

— Tiago Forte (@fortelabs) January 15, 2019

These questions and similar ones (work this out) could be interesting prompts to be included on a syllabus or as starts for an annotated syllabus. (eg: What do you want to get out of this class? What do you already know about these areas? How can we expand on what you know? What would you like to explore?, etc.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

So much to unpack here.

Similar to experiments I've seen by Henry James Korn (esp. The Pontoon Manifesto), John Irwin, etc.

Similarities to means of forcing Llullan combinatorial creativity, but in alternate form.