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How to redesign a brand for emotional resonance
Is designing a brand or logo a solely creative process? How much data is enough… or too much? What is the role of intuition? What about rigorous methodology?
Data-informed business leaders are sometimes paralyzed by their need for perfect data to answer a business question. They want to test everything to statistical confidence. As someone who has been advocating for controlled testing in business for over a decade, I'm happy to see this is finally a problem! (See my book on website experimentation.)
On the other hand, many creative leaders believe an inspiring "big idea" is all that's needed to make dramatic business impact. They'll say that some questions simply can't be tested or that too much data stifles innovation, or that design is strictly a creative process.
Both sides aren't seeing the full story. A balanced business leader (or what I call a zen business leader) understands that both inspiration and rigor play a role in great insights. And great insights pay massive business dividends.
So, what do you do when your product or brand needs to be repositioned? How can you use data-informed decision-making and advanced framework thinking to redesign your brand?
Recently, we found ourselves facing these questions. And today we unveiled Widerfunnel's new logo and fresh look. I'd like to share the process we used for our rebrand and the thinking behind our new logo.
Your brand is too important not to experiment with
I've previously written that "the purpose of a brand is to cause an effect. A brand needs to stand for something different and singular. Something focused, memorable, meaningful, and valuable…" and now I'd add with an emotional resonance with the right people to move them to action.
Research on customer emotions by Harvard Business Review shows that customers who feel emotionally connected with a brand are 52% more valuable than even highly satisfied but not fully connected customers.
Insights about how to create an emotional connection with customers are clearly important. Getting it right is too important to leave to guesswork and intuition alone.
Last year, Widerfunnel's leadership realized our brand needed to evolve to keep pace with the evolution of our services and positioning, and to become more fully connected to our customers.
Since Widerfunnel's launch in 2007, we've advocated for experimentation as the crucible for business decision-making, for use in all areas; from website design improvements to product features and value proposition choices. By optimizing the process of optimization itself, we have gained a reputation as originators of industry-standard methodologies, and are still spearheading change in our industry.
So, clearly, we should try to use our own methodologies when making decisions about the evolution of our brand.
And the best way to make better decisions is to find the right frameworks that enable better thinking.
Framework thinking for business strategy, customer personas, competitive analysis, goal setting… and a rebrand
Framework thinking simplifies complex decisions by separating the irrelevant from the salient, especially in repeating situations or questions.
I believe that most business questions aren't unique, and that the best answers can be reached using frameworks rather than looking for simple answers. (If you're new to this blog, you might want to review my previous thoughts on framework thinking for business decision-making.)
I've written extensively about frameworks for experimentation programs, such as the LIFT Model® for understanding the customers' perspective, the PIE framework for prioritizing experiments, the value proposition development framework, and the Limbic® model for understanding emotional systems.
The overarching methodology we've developed to answer business questions is the Infinity Optimization Process™, which can contain many types of frameworks to answer different business questions. The key is to know which framework is best for the business question at hand.
The Infinity Optimization Process considers the perspective of two mindsets: the expansive Explore phase on one side and reductive Validate on the other.
But, you might ask, isn't that methodology designed for website experimentation? How does a rebrand fit with conversion rate optimization?
I'm glad you asked.
Conversion rate optimization is one method to address one type of business question. Over the years, we have discovered that the same experimentation mindset can uncover many other types of business insights beyond customer experience design. We are now applying the same process that we've always used to design delightful customer experiences to understand customers' emotional drivers as well as evolve businesses and products into new spaces.
The power to answer all types of questions is in the interplay of the Explore and Validate phases within the Infinity Optimization Process.
The process is the same, but the types of data and validation are different. Some business questions are better explored with "thick data" from customer surveys, competitive analyses, or a Behavioral Science longitudinal study rather than web analytics or big data, for example. And validation might be conducted with a MotivationLab® study, Behavioral Design sprint, or customer experience benchmarking rather than a randomized controlled A/B test.
Think of it like choosing the right type of focal lens for various business questions. Sometimes, you need to take a broader or more narrow view. Some business questions use a more macro or more micro perspective.
The art of the zen business leader is knowing which type of data and validation is appropriate for each business question.
Yes, I'll say this again for clarity: A/B testing with statistical confidence is not the only valid type of experiment. It is still the gold standard for validation in many cases, but it can and should be combined with other types of experiments.
Fortunately, in recent years, Widerfunnel has been developing new Explore methodologies for uncovering the emotional resonance of consumers, which are perfectly applicable to brand design.
How we approached Widerfunnel's brand evolution
When we needed to re-evaluate our brand positioning and design, I made sure we had access to the best frameworks for the job, from inside and outside of Widerfunnel.
We tapped into knowledge from the leading thinkers in strategic planning, from Jim Collins to Michael Porter to Robert Bloom to develop a repositioned business strategy (including a new Market Map, Core Customer profile, Competitive Attribution Analysis, BHAG, 3HAG, and differentiators.) And ultimately, used our own MotivationLab process to evaluate the emotional resonance of our new brand design and our value proposition framework to triangulate on our new brand positioning.
Over the coming weeks and months, we will be sharing more detail about the process we've used and the outcomes. Most importantly, we'll show how you can use similar methods for your own product and brand evolution.
Today, I'm excited to share the high-level phases of the process we conducted to design our new brand.
Before getting into design, it's imperative to understand where you are relative to your competitors, your customer needs, and your unique abilities.
Understanding competitive positioning
Part of our process was to conduct an in-depth competitive analysis to uncover potential strategic "whitespaces" and differentiators. This process was conducted by Widerfunnel's leadership team with the support of a business forum led by Shannon Susko, author of The 3HAG Way and the Metronome Effect.
The goal of this isn't to try to be better than competitors in all characteristics, but to be different so we can continue to be the best in our chosen whitespace for our core customers.
This commitment to delivering value wasn't new for us. When I launched Widerfunnel in 2007, I decided that we would focus on what we could be best in the world at. That's why we committed to only running experimentation programs for high volume brands, rather than selling untested advice or small volume ad campaigns.
Understanding customer needs
If a brand is going to be meaningful to your target audience, it should be based on data and insights about their needs, characteristics, and emotional resonance.
One of the most important steps in our process was conducting an in-depth analysis of our clients. We surveyed everyone on our team that has day-to-day client contact, including our Strategists, Consultants, Project Managers, Business Development reps, and Marketers. We identified 32 of the most important characteristics of our clients and ranked each of them on those traits.
Then, one of Widerfunnel's Data Analysts conducted a correlation study to find out the characteristics of our best clients so we can align our value proposition with their needs.
The outcome from this was fascinating! We learned a lot about how to spot great clients early on in our relationship with them, and prioritize the types of companies to invest more energy in.
Most importantly, we identified the top needs of our core customers, which we could correlate to our unique abilities and come up with our value proposition.
Understanding our unique abilities
Once we had a clear understanding of our competitive position and core customer needs, we could take a close look at our own unique abilities. We took into consideration our core purpose, values, and an analysis of our customer feedback.
By comparing our abilities with competitors, we could define a unique attribute profile that we can sustain and enhance.
With a clear understanding of our competitive situation, the needs of our customers, and our abilities, we could use our PODs, POPs, and POIs framework to create a stronger value proposition. We came away from these exercises over several months with deep insights into where we add the most value and what we can uniquely deliver to our core customer.
All that work just for a new logo?
Yes and no. It does take a lot of pre-work to understand what to communicate with a new logo. But, a brand is much more than a logo.
When I designed Widerfunnel's original logo, my intention was to pose a challenge to the traditional agency world. Their old gut-feeling approach to selling unproven "big ideas" to clients for the purpose of winning an award for "cleverness" seemed disingenuous, at best. And I believed we could change how things were done.
I've always believed there's a better way to find great ideas, by using scientific experimentation as the crucible for decision-making in all areas of business. I made a bold commitment back then: that Widerfunnel would never recommend an idea that we wouldn't test. Our neck would always be on the line to deliver legitimate value for our clients.
My goal was (and still is) to prove evidence-based decisions get the best results. And so, Widerfunnel began as a challenger brand.
The original logo represented our methodology of rapid-cycle experiment delivery, which we pioneered. At the time, being an unknown company with unproven ideas, I chose colors that represented stability and profit, with a dynamic icon representing rapid-cycle experimentation.
But, as I mentioned, we recognized last year that our brand needed to evolve because our customers and their needs have evolved. When we began this process, we initially hired an external brand strategy agency to create a new brand model and logo. A lot of that work was helpful to bring a new perspective to our positioning, and some of the logo options were ideas we wouldn't have explored on our own.
But before launching a full rebrand, we wanted to validate whether it would have the desired resonance with our core customers. Fortunately, we have a methodology for doing this right under our own roof.
Validating the brand resonance using MotivationLab
Based on the work of our Behavioral Science team, we knew that our new logo would have to create positive emotional resonance with our core customer.
We gathered a panel of our clients and future prospects to test the brand concepts using our own MotivationLab service.
We found that, although the concepts provided by the design agency represented the brand strategy, they simply did not strike the right emotional chord with our core customer group. We went through several rounds of iterations and finally decided to go back to the drawing board using our own talented Widerfunnel design team.
The team built upon the new strategic position and the brand model to come up with a concept that not only represents us but also creates the right emotional response for our core customer.
The final result
Whereas our original logo represented our process, our new logo focuses on the outcome for our clients.
While our methodologies are continuously evolving, the result remains the same: we establish a beacon of insights that guides business leaders to make confident decisions.
Our new brand graphic is the 'spotlight' – a representation of how we illuminate insights and uncover evidence to guide business decision-making. Our research shows that our clients see us as a partner they trust to build programs that guide their organization out of the fog, toward firm ground.
At the same time, the new logo takes a mature, confident, and relatable stance, with angles to show velocity and movement. The aqua, teal and orange colours take a nod from our original brand while adding a more modern and vibrant hue. The colours indicate a perspective that is reliable, thoughtful, and sophisticated as well as nuanced, courageous, and innovative. The abstract W logomark represents shining a light of insight and growth throughout our clients' companies.
Over the coming weeks, you will start to see more of our new positioning and services described throughout our messaging.
I'm excited to see Widerfunnel growing into our potential and look forward to the continuation of this great story!
As always, I look forward to hearing your feedback. Feel free to leave a comment below or email [email protected] with your thoughts.
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Here are my slides for the talk I gave at the 2019 INEM Conference in Helsinki. Here is an updated presentation that I will give in Zurich and at the University of Warwick.
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My students on History of Economics
From this year's student evaluations:
Economics teaching proceeds as follows: here is an extremely abstract and unlikely theory, go away and learn it, and don't ask awkward questions about its veracity. But I want to know where these ideas come from, and whether they are true, not just whether they make neat mathematics. In this course I was finally able to ask some of the questions that had been bothering me, for example: Is the idea of maximising utility really true, is it useful, where does it come from? Has economics always been about rational individuals, or should it consider societal influences and morality? Does it make sense to talk about general economic laws, or does human action actually depend on culture?
History of Economic Thought is an excellent course for students who want to think about big ideas; this year we had some very good discussions. More reactions here.
Do economists perform the economy?
Here is an excerpt from my review of Enacting Dismal Science (Palgrave, 2016), a new collection of essays on performativity edited by Igor Boldyrev and Ekaterina Svetlova.
Boldyrev and Svetlova have set out a challenging and important task to push forward the dispersed streams of thought on performativity of economics. While this volume offers a solid reconstruction of the historical origins of the concept, and while it addresses some of the main criticisms of performativity, the question remains whether we are converging to anything like a theory of performativity. If so, it seems we still have a long way ahead.
Classification and exemplars
Earlier on this year, Howard Schultz stepped down as the CEO of Starbucks (NYT, Seattle Times, WSJ). In our paper, Erwin Dekker and I have looked into what can we learn from the ascent of Starbucks about the meaning of economic competition. Here is the abstract:
This paper offers an alternative to essentialist theories that conceptualize goods as bundles of objective characteristics. Extending the idea that economic competition is a discovery process beyond the discovery of costs and prices to the discovery of qualities, we argue that relevant qualities of goods emerge along with costs and prices from the process of economic competition. Such a discovery process revolves around exemplary goods—a novel theoretical concept we develop. Exemplary goods, as we argue, have a coordinative role within markets that is complementary to the coordinative role of prices. We illustrate our theory with a reinterpretation of a case study on the entry of Starbucks and conclude by challenging some of the normative implications derived from theories of salience.
Read More: http://ejournals.duncker-humblot.de/doi/abs/10.3790/schm.136.3.237
Change things, so that everything stays the same
This very decade Mexico rounds off two centuries taking on its independence. It seems, however, that although the independent Mexico has experienced a number of more or less radical transformations, these changes often did more to leave things as they were than to move the nation to anything resembling a liberal constitutional order. Classical liberal ideas have always been present in Mexico in one form or another but it is paternalism, patronage, and corporatism that have deep roots in the economic thinking, not liberalism.
Today the heritage of conservative colonial paternalism is a major contender for liberalism and a source of many contemporary Mexican problems. In the pre-independence Mexico, land, and labor never really got to become commodified. The colonial society never came to be constituted by competing individuals that would see themselves as self-interested and autonomous, market exchange was impeded by the aristocratic philosophy of noble idleness, through institutions of mayorazgo or ejido that would lead to the concentration of lands, and through encomiendas and repartimientos that would weaken the position of a typical laborer. The market mechanism was misunderstood and mistrust and by the time Mexico claimed its independence the notions of bargain, contract or competition were not too relevant. The Spanish paternalism which found a fertile soil in the subsistence economy of native Americans did not permit the rise of a merchant class in Mexico. Independence was not really a break with this tradition, rather, it was a return to traditional values in a changing world shaped by Bourbon reforms, Napoleonic invasion of Iberia and partial trade liberalization. Rather than a force of emancipation, Mexican independence was a kind of counter-revolution that reinforced corporatist interests and special privileges.
Mexico did not have a stable political system until the second half of the nineteenth century when Porfirio Díaz came to power. With Díaz the political system became stable and a national (as opposed to provincial) identity begun to shape up. Stable polity is key for a liberal order, but can we find some cultural allegiance to liberal principles during the Porfiriato era? Although it might seem so looking at the records of the time, the liberal program that the Reforma movement envisioned did not change the fact that by the time Díaz came to power, ownership of land continued to be concentrated in the hands of the hacendados and that labor – the only asset of the majority of the Mexican population – was not really a property of the individual. It was compulsion, not contract that controlled labor; the liberal program was in conflict with the reality of the landed power in Mexico and the costs of enforcing the liberal ideas of the 1857 constitution were too high.
Despite the irrelevance of the liberal order that was imposed on the Restored Republic, some Mexican historians of economic thought believe we can find an allegiance to liberal principles during Porfiriato. In fact, the argument goes, at the end of the nineteenth century – during the reign of Porfirio Díaz – liberalism prevailed and later on in the 20th century this political philosophy was renewed, updated and promoted by a group of intellectuals, businessmen and politicians establishing a continuity of the so-called "orthodox liberal thinking" or "neoliberalism" that can be traced to Porfiriato. The intellectual core of this kind of thinking counts with an elite that reforms the state with one principal objective: creating and strengthening the market; the government should bring about conditions under which the price mechanism functions correctly.
Granted, the 1883 commercial code defined the profession of a merchant, the civil code (1867-1884) exalted contractual arrangements for labor, all significant private law limitations on free commerce were abolished by legislature, in 1889 shareholder-owned corporations were permitted separating management from ownership, in 1896 alcabalas were mostly abolished and the value of Mexican industrial product doubled between 1878-1911. The fact remains, however, that bargaining for the purchase and sale of labor and goods did not prevail among large segments of Mexican population; the civil law did not provide a solid and inclusive framework for economic activity and the life outside of the cities was largely unaffected by the commercial and legal innovations of Porfiriato. Rather than private economic agents, it was the government that through institutions of fomento directed the country development. The development strategy of the Porfirian government was not liberal, rather, the strategy rehabilitated the Spanish mercantilist colonial tradition introducing a kind of economic nationalism spurring what could be called a closed door defensive modernization. Porfirio Díaz created a patronage pact that sustained the political establishment and protected powerful economic interests. This pact brought stable polity and modernization but not economic liberalism.
In many ways, the Mexican Revolution was a break with the Porfirian tradition but in many key aspects the movement brought about changes that made it possible to keep things as they were yet again. The Mexican Revolution was violent but most importantly it was conservative, it embodied the key ideas of Spanish economic paternalism: limiting the scope of avarice and bringing about social justice to protect the weak and poor from exploitation by private economic power. To achieve these goals, the constitution of 1917 (mainly through articles 27 and 28) rolled back traditional patterns of community ownership and weakened the development of market relations. With the formation of Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in 1946, the patronage pact introduced by Porfirio Díaz reemerged, the chief mechanism for allocating factors of production was still government coordination, not price mechanism.
The reforms of the 1980s – what some call the "second revolution" – did not modify the key institutions of Mexican Revolution either. The article 27 of Mexican Constitution stayed in place and the article 28 was amended to give the government power over key industries and the mandate to intervene so as to make sure markets are competitive. The "second revolution" of the 1980s and 1990s did remove some inefficiencies through privatization and partial liberalization of trade, it helped move the Mexican economy to the production possibility frontier. But the very frontier did not move outwards because the "second revolution" did not manage to strengthen the rule of law. The "second revolution" was again a predominantly conservative movement that firmly reified the rectorship (rectoría) of the Mexican government. Since the 1980s and despite the reforms the development has been lackluster, in large parts of the country poverty rates have not diminished and corruption, violence, and impunity are still major problems.
The argument about deep roots of liberal orthodoxy in Mexico is important, it tries to establish a link between the nineteenth century and the immediately present Mexican reality that is characterized by crony capitalism, patronage pacts, inequality and faltering social mobility. As I argue elsewhere, the thesis that links the Porfirian development strategy with the 20th-century Mexican liberal thinkers downplays the very prominence of economic nationalism during the Porfiriato era and the prominence of mercantilist arrangements that have survived and prevailed in Mexico since the 1980s. Liberalism has always been present in the history of Mexican thought. But it makes no sense to call the Mexican "orthodoxy" liberal, it is corporatist and contradictory to classical liberalism.
A Spanish version of this article was published in the Boletín de la Asociación Mexicana de la Historia Económica 11, 2. May-Aug, 2016
Entrepreneuship and legitimation of novelty
Sindakis and Walter present a book on entrepreneurship, innovation, management and policy making that should be of interest for anyone inhabiting the "start-up ecosystem, which is struggling to comprehend what it takes to build products for the [Southeast-Asia] region and how to enter emerging markets" (p. xv). I see the main shortcoming of this ambitious project in the omission of one of the most important but still generally understudied entrepreneurial tasks: convincing others to make use of artifacts (goods, services, processes) that work in other contexts and therefore legitimizing their use within local conditions. Unfortunately, the theoretical treatment of how the rules of the game interact with entrepreneurship remains weak throughout the book.
Read my review here.
Surrogate motherhood and the limits of division of labor
I took part in a panel on surrogacy in Sweden organized by Timbro. Watch my talk here:
One of the general points that I make is that while it is only the extent of the market that limits the division of labor, market-making is not costless. More importantly, the character of costs to be incurred while introducing and maintaining markets is not merely technological.
In order to protect the surrogate mothers and the intended parents, entrepreneurs and legislative committees should keep three points in mind:
- A surrogacy agreement employing a gestational carrier is not a form of adoption and should not be treated as such.
- Public debate is key to reach a broad consensus on the merits of surrogate motherhood.
- Full contractual enforcement of voluntary agreements between parties to a surrogacy contract is essential for proper functioning of a system that will provide the means to the ends that childless couples and surrogate mothers pursue.
Find a Swedish version of my article here, the slides to my talk here and the whole discussion here.
Must we agree on more than just price?
Coordination through the price system has been well studied and the coordinating aspects of price signals are appreciated among economists and non-economists alike. This paper argues that the coordination processes which take place within markets are often shaped by other systems of non-price coordination. These non-price coordination systems, or orders of worth as we call them, can be thought of as emergent orders just like the price system is an emergent order; they are sources of justification that can be drawn upon to warrant the worth of diverse artifacts and the legitimacy of trading them. We show that Adam Smith's theory of sympathy hints towards the need for such non-price coordination systems and offers conceptual means for analyzing the emergence of such orders. We link Smith with contemporary work in economic sociology and we distinguish, following a framework developed by Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot, between different orders of worth, we explain how they can help us understand the justification of the exchange and value of contested goods and we apply this theoretical framework to cases of art, life and reproduction.
Was Teotihuacan a work of art?
Was Teotihuacan a work of art? Certainly, in one of the largest urban centers of ancient Mesoamerica craftsmanship and art – most notably mural paintings – burgeoned. Today the monumental architectural structures of the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon towering along the Street of the Dead in an almost perfect geometrical alignment leave the visitors of the ancient metropolis astonished. What was the power capable of such a monumental urban design? Was the city itself one monumental work of art?
The origins of this metropolis of the Valley of Mexico reach to about 100 AD and its hiatus is estimated to start around 550AD, the population of the metropolis reached around 150,000 people at its peak but when the Aztecs found the city, it was a metropolis of ghosts. For some reason, the Teotihuacan culture had almost disappeared before the Aztecs came. What kind of social organization can explain the rise and fall of one of the greatest and oldest urban structures?
Many archeologists believe that Teotihuacan was centrally controlled by powerful rulers and military elites and the existence of an early centralized government is often supported arguing that migration into the city was a result of deliberate policy enforced by coercion for the political advantage of keeping most of the Valley of Mexico's population under direct control of the city. Furthermore, the monumental pyramids seem to provide evidence for the immense power of Teotihuacan rulers to call up labor; the alignment of the city quarters around 15° of true north seems to further suggest a high degree of planning implying a centralized control over the design of the city. How can this magnificent urban design not be a work of someone's vision? How can Teotihuacan not be a work of art?
The facts may be highly suggestive of an anthropomorphic scenario explaining the organization of Teotihuacan. But even after decades of concerted archaeological search any direct evidence of strong centralized Teotihuacan government remains elusive. There are actually findings which seem to contradict the central design thesis.
Consider this: in Teotihuacan not a single piece of art depicting the subjugation of one person by another has been found and evidence of notation is so sparse that it was long thought that writing was absent altogether. This is especially puzzling in the context of the Maya, Zapotec, and other cultures which employed their writing systems to exhibit and glorify the exploits of their royal lineages. The relative absence of such writing in Teotihuacan is indicative of the relative absence of such lineage royalty.
This is not the end of the confusion; the Aztec records of the city's origins explicitly speak of several old and wise leaders of the new settlers being installed as rulers. Not one powerful emperor but several leaders. The city's population also seems to have been ethnically quite diverse; it might have included several foreign enclaves and it does not seem that the migration was coerced. It is in fact quite plausible that the influx of migrants from neighboring regions of the Valley of Mexico is a result of the Popocatepetl and Chichinautzin volcano eruptions. Was the Teotihuacan order polycentric, rather than centralized? If so, what made the diverse peoples of Teotihuacan stay together?
Mexico City's UNAM researchers suggest that the origin of the metropolis results from a coming together of several disparate groups which would have facilitated the creation of a governing coalition rather than from a coercive central plan. Teotihuacan seems to have emerged as a voluntary alliance between around twenty social units, possibly related clans, or ethnic groups who were interested in trade and ritual rather than in empire building. This complex social system was most likely successfully managed collectively in a self-organized manner, involving neither powerful leaders nor an extensive bureaucratic apparatus and the globally optimal coordination mechanisms of Teotihuacan seem to have emerged spontaneously through agents' actions and interactions even though each agent was behaving selfishly and even though no agent had the knowledge about the structure of the overall problem space. Froese, Gershenson and Manzanilla provide a genuinely system-level explanation of collective government thus attacking a tradition in which has strong roots both in archaeology and in social sciences, a tradition that necessarily equates social complexity with centralized hierarchy.
Collective action governing common spaces neither by a market nor by hierarchical mechanisms poses some genuine challenges as the tragedy of the commons story would suggest. But simulating the emergent urban organization of Teotihuacan which remained adaptive for around five centuries clearly shows that spontaneous cooperation is feasible even without centralized hierarchical control. How were the problems of collective action overcome in the metropolis of Teotihuacan?
Rather then centralized coercive bureaucratic aparatus, it was the system of shared beliefs that served as a coordination device for the heterogenous population of Teotihuacan. For example, the canonical orientation of Teotihuacan was originally a result of the cosmological observations made with the Pyramid of the Sun, while other principal constructions followed the Pyramid's alignments to ensure the maximal use of available space in a crowded city. If people of Teotihuacan considered their city to be a sacred cosmogram and the center of the universe, it is unlikely that coercion was needed to convince immigrants to construct their compounds so as to share in this cosmic power. But such a symbolic behavior largely consists of arbitrary customs. How could the Teotihuacan population make sure that these customs would provide coordination guidelines that were adaptive? How could the system quickly converge to an optimum and, more importantly, how could the system visit different optima so as to avoid adaptively suboptimal attractors?
The suggested answer lies in behavioral randomization. The ritual calendar of Teotihuacan included infrequent, large-scale events during which normal social activity and norms were suspended. These rituals had more than an ornamental function. These rituals would infrequently disturb the common routines thus helping, by way of randomization and re-convergence, to occasionally introduce arbitrary behavioral choices and allow the population to re-converge to an equilibrium preventing an institutional lock-in on equilibria that were not adaptive. Froese and his colleagues refer to this strong form of self-organization as self-optimization. Consequently, if the pyramids mainly served a ritual function for the community, it would be better to think of them as large-scale public goods on a continuum with the constructions of large-scale housing for most of the population rather than conspicuous manifestation of power.
Is there anything we can learn today from the emergent self-organization of Teotihuacan? I certainly think so. Perhaps the history of this ancient metropolis is a chapter in a story told by Jane Jacobs. Perhaps it is the case that
to approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life.
Perhaps the power that shaped the metropolis of Teotihuacan was not a power of an enlightened sometimes benevolent and sometimes cruel emperor. On the contrary, it is quite likely that the power which made the Teotihuacan population adaptive for five centuries was an emergent capacity of social groups to self-organize.
Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change
Entrepreneurs do more than just buy low and sell high; they sometimes also change our institutions, including our categories of thought. New institutional economics has been examining incentives that drive individuals to bring about market-supporting institutional arrangements. There is, however, an aspect of entrepreneurship conducive to institutional changes that has been neglected by contemporary institutionalist theories and that remains underdeveloped in entrepreneurship research. When and how does entrepreneurship bring about institutional change? I suggest that entrepreneurs are agents of institutional change when cultural categorization is ambiguous with regard to what the proper and permissible applications of novel artifacts are. Motherhood, for example, used to be a simple category, but surrogacy changed that radically. Examining newspaper evidence, social surveys, statutory law, and judicial cases, I show how entrepreneurs, by provoking a change in interpretation and judgment, challenged the existing institutional legal ordering of procreation turning a technically feasible method of surrogacy into current practice.

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Show me the Magic
"All cinema is a deception – a beautiful deception"
Don McAlpine ACS ASC
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Show me the Magic takes us on an enthralling journey into the life and work of legendary Australian cinematographer Don McAlpine. The filmmaker secured rare access to the usually closed behind-the-scenes world that Don inhabits during his 50th film, X-Men Origins: Wolverinewith Gavin Hood and Hugh Jackman, and on the set of Mental,directed by P.J. Hogan, (Peter Pan). This is Don's 53rd film and his first digital feature. His career includes such seminal films as Patriot Games, Predator, Peter Pan, Mrs Doubtfire, Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge! and The Chronicles of Nania: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Show me the Magic tells the story of Don's journey from a one-horse town in outback New South Wales to the heights of Hollywood, weaving historical archive with Don's own personal collection and behind the scenes footage. Directors Bruce Beresford and Gillian Armstrong recall highlights from Don's remarkable Australian career including the iconic Breaker Morant and My Brilliant Career. We meet Paul Mazursky who gave him his big break in Hollywood with Tempestand Down and Out in Beverley Hills. Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin take us behind the scenes of their two iconic films with Don, Romeo + Julietand Moulin Rouge!
Show me the Magic will engage and delight anyone who has ever been touched by the magic of movies.
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Measuring Civic Contribution
A bold headline spanning all six columns of the front page of the Contra Costa Times on July 17 proclaimed "Contractors face end of road," a reference to one possible outcome of California's budget crisis: that 600 highway projects could halt if contractors walked off the job.
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Jennifer Aniston has been the hair icon for most of female-kind ever since The Rachel hit our screens back on Friends in 1994, but now the actress has revealed that her own hair-spiration is none other than Kate Middleton!
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104RB: Roads to sustainability: Land use within sustainable development goals and planetary boundaries - Part B
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What are the visions for the planetary land system?
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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires large effort and transformative change in socio-ecological systems. In this regard, changes in land use systems are highly relevant because land use--directly and indirectly--relates to a number of SDGs – ranging from Zero Hunger and Clean Water, over Responsible Consumption and Production, to Climate Action or Life on Land. Since SDGs are universal and require integrated implementation, their local and national implementation must account for (i) international and global effects and (ii) trade-offs and synergies between the often conflicting individual goals. This session deals with the complex interplay between socio-economic transformation processes, land use change, environmental limits and the achievement of SDGs. Emphasis lies on systems analysis to identify synergies and trade-offs of available land management and governance options as well as on transformative land use pathways with respect to achieving different sustainability targets. Presenters are encouraged to address the externalization of land-related costs and benefits across regions (teleconnections and telecoupling) and related common but differentiated responsibilities in land use. We invite contributions that help to evaluate and compare different scientific approaches, methods, tools, indicators and data, suited to derive conclusions for integrated land management and nested multi-level land governance and policy coherence. Presenters are encouraged to present the drivers of change, socio-environmental consequences, and potential response strategies in a structured causal-effect relationship. Organizers: Benjamin Stuch; Holger Hoff; Patrick Hostert
|External Resource: - SESSION RECORDING - https://youtu.be/UQvCujXSmbc
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104R Roads to sustainability: Land use within sustainable development goals and planetary boundaries
Keywords: water, tele-connections, SDG, sustainability, Africa
Who changes the rain? Linking the social-ecological dynamics of land-use change, atmospheric water recycling, and pastoralist behavior
Colorado State University, United States of America
Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is targeted for the year 2030, some 12 years from now. Among the SDGs, the most fundamental goals for overall success are the goals related to water, and this success will ultimately depend on how humanity manages their land and water. Recent findings show the significant impact that human land-use change can have on moisture recycling - the process of water evaporating from land, traveling through the atmosphere, then falling back to Earth as precipitation. This insight, combined with advances in understanding behavioral drivers of land-use change in East African pastoralist systems, offers a unique opportunity to examine how human behavior, land-use, and moisture recycling may couple to enable (or hinder) SDG achievement. Notably, in East Africa's forests and woody savannas, forest management often overlaps directly with rangeland management, and when considering ecological conservation, it is equally important to consider the societies that dwell in these landscapes.
We develop an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the complex interplay of water across scales. Scenarios of SDG#15 achievement for East African countries are simulated in a land-use model (G-Range), and the coincident changes in evaporation (and subsequently the atmospheric water cycle) are simulated via a moisture tracking model (WAM-2layers). These changes to the atmospheric water cycle further drive changes in downwind rangeland systems and drive subsequent human decision-making (using a modified agent-based model, DECUMA) that depend on those rangelands.
The output is a first-of-its-kind coupled-modeling system linking national land-use policy to eventual community adaptations via regional-scale moisture recycling, revealing nested, multi-level issues related to land-use and atmospheric tele-connections. We will present preliminary results from our model coupling, share insights into engagement and co-development of research goals with East African stakeholders, and conclude with a discussion of lessons-learned (so far) regarding engagement with the broader SDG agenda.
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104R Roads to sustainability: Land use within sustainable development goals and planetary boundaries
Keywords: planetary boundaries, land system change, sensitivity, remote sensing
Quantifying a planetary land systems boundary
1Humboldt University Berlin, Germany; 2Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
The current planetary boundary for land system change is defined as the (biome-specific) area of forest loss that, if exceeded, may represent a risk for Earth system destabilization. This provisional "aggregate" boundary definition lacks linkages to boundaries/thresholds that are likely to exist at regional scale and that may already be operational.
We accordingly focus on sensitivity analyses related to different aspects of land systems boundary quantifications:
a) The baseline definition of "original" forest is a critical step. Depending on different assumptions concerning the pre-industrial state of the global land system, we show how margins towards critical thresholds vary. This may critically affect the option space related to a boundary for land system change.
b) Data-related sensitivity should be taken into account and a better understanding of different uncertainties related to datasets and methods is imperative. We show how different e.g. remote sensing based datasets influence the outcome of calculations for a boundary related to land system change.
c) Control variable sensitivity (currently forest cover loss per forest biome) is similarly critical. Multiple control variables may be needed to embrace the complexity of land systems. We show examples on how to move from forest loss (areal land cover change) as single control variable to rather holistic quantifications including proxies for land use intensity and land management.
Beyond quantification, we believe that land systems boundaries shall be met at eco-regional or even national scales. Aggregation may therefore only be feasible in a nested approach, not allowing "trading in" improvements in one region against deteriorating conditions elsewhere. We argue that finer-scale measures from different world regions may be needed, including for example savannah woodlands.
The proposed sensitivity analyses refer to knowledge gaps that we also need to address in the light of transdisciplinary approaches. Implications for e.g. food security, public health, or improving local livelihoods, among others, will be of utmost importance, If we wish to relate a planetary boundary on land system change to a social-ecological systems perspective.
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104R Roads to sustainability: Land use within sustainable development goals and planetary boundaries
Keywords: Land-system boundary, downscale planetary boundary, country level analysis, global trade, consumption impacts
National land-use performance based on downscaled planetary boundaries
Deakin University, Australia
Population and economic growth have placed enormous pressure on Earth's natural resources. Land resources have been exploited by agricultural intensification, deforestation, and urbanisation. Increasing international trade of food, fibre, timber, bio-fuels and other products have put immense pressure on land-systems. We downscaled the land-system planetary boundary (PB) and allocated a safe operating space for every country. We accounted for a fair and rational distribution of the global boundary by considering socio-economic and environmental factors and assigned limits to countries based on population, fair economic equity and available land resources. We assessed country level direct and virtual (indirect) impacts on the land-system change PB resulting from global consumption of goods and services traded across international supply chains. We analysed country level impacts on agricultural land and forests against their allocated safe operating space for land-system change and calculated their PB exceedances, accounting also for uncertainty in the current definition of the land-system change PB. We used a global multi-regional input-output analysis to identify the amount of direct and indirect (trade-adjusted) impacts of countries and quantify the interdependencies between countries with regard to land resources. We also analysed how countries performance can vary, based on different downscaling techniques and underlying PB uncertainty. Our results show land-use PB transgressions at a country level over time and highlight countries which are using more land resources than their allocated share within safe global limits. This work provides insights into the pressures on global land resources by quantifying total land-system change impacts associated with final consumption of goods and services.
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104R Roads to sustainability: Land use within sustainable development goals and planetary boundaries
Keywords: impact assessment, trade, deforestation, soybean, LCA
Unlocking product-level life cycle assessments for SDG12 with high-resolution land use and trade information
1Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden; 2Global Canopy, UK; 3Stockholm Environment Institute, USA
Meeting Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG12) to "ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns" requires analytical tools to connect production and consumption centres at scales that are relevant for decision-makers. From a product perspective, life cycle thinking can be used to map a product's life cycle from resource use to disposal (so-called "cradle to grave") as the basis for a life cycle assessment (LCA). LCAs guide decisions that can reduce impacts of production and consumption through an environmental impact assessment of the different stages of a product's life cycle. Since 2013, these assessments can include land use and land use change in a framework established to quantify impacts to biodiversity and ecosystem services. Current applications, however, often suffer from the lack of high-resolution land use information. In this study, we show how spatially-explicit mapping of supply chains based on high resolution trade and production data (see Trase, trase.earth) can provide information on land use and land use change for applications in LCAs. We produce multitemporal analysis of deforestation using a high-resolution depiction of the Brazilian soybean supply chain, revealing not only the importance of a country's "supply mix" for accurately assessing environmental impacts embedded in consumption, but also the role of traders in meeting global demand. Our results provide additional tools for addressing SDG12 from a product perspective by considering both traders and consumer countries, while enabling more accurate LCAs for European Product Environmental Footprint and Organisation Environmental Footprint guidelines.
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104R Roads to sustainability: Land use within sustainable development goals and planetary boundaries
Keywords: Water Harvesting, Food Security, Out-Scaling, Case Studies, Suitability Analysis
Mapping the potential of water harvesting to increase food security at global scale
1Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; 2Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Systems (GESAAF), University of Florence, Italy; 3Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland; 4Department of Soil and Environment, SLU, Sweden; 5Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Sweden
Agriculture has a dominant role in achieving the Sustainable Development goals, whit the double challenge of increasing food security while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems. Water harvesting (WH) is a well-known practice that can provide supplemental irrigation, increasing water productivity thus contributing to sustainable intensification of agriculture. Some studies have shown the potential of WH to close the yield gap, thus potentially reduce food insecurity at local and global scale. However, these top down studies tend to overestimate the benefits of WH because they mostly neglect the effect of socio-economic and cultural barriers in the success of the adoption of such practice. Local case studies provide a more contextual and realistic picture of the actual benefit of WH and learning from case studies would provide a more accurate estimation of the potential increase in food security through sustainable water management practices. Using a bottom-up approach we out-scale the benefit observed in 240 local case studies on different water harvesting techniques across a wide range of agro-climatic and socio-economic regions globally.We first identify suitable areas of water harvesting using the combination of environmental information (precipitation amount and seasonality, aridity and slope) and socio-economic parameters (access to market and financial services, farm size and labor capacity) relevant for the successful implementation of WH. Finally, we use the qualitative survey data (interviews of farmers) of the case study to attribute the potential increase in food security based on the suitability analysis, the water-limited yield gap and current global food insecurity patterns.
This study can serve as a baseline to understand and further explore the potential of water harvesting as a sustainable driver of agricultural improvement at global scale. We also consider this work a first necessary step to trigger future modelling studies and build scenarios of sustainable intensification of agriculture within the planetary safe operating space.
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104R Roads to sustainability: Land use within sustainable development goals and planetary boundaries
Keywords: Urbanisation, SDG 11, SDG 15, path dependency
Perspectives on land explicit metrics for SDG indicators, the case of SDG 15 and SDG 11
1Piksel S.r.l, Italy; 2European Commission DG Joint Research Centre Disaster Risk Management Unit
Land degradation due to anthropogenic pressures affects sizable parts of the planet Earth landmass. The monitoring of this phenomenon has entered in the 2030 Development Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Earth Observations provide valuable information to quantify the extent of degraded land, especially the one transformed into sealed surfaces. The extraction of human settlements and urban extent from remote sensing is a field of research capable to support the SDG monitoring with key information to lift several SDGs from Tier II to Tier I classification, implying the supply of data to operationalize internationally agreed methodologies.
In this contribution, we focus on the interplay between SDG 15.3.1 (Proportion of land that is degraded over total land area) and SDG 11.3.1 (Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate).
We principally highlight that despite SDG 11.3.1 relates the expansion of built-up areas to demographic changes, the dimensionless values it outputs neglect considerable spatially explicit implications. In particular, while the SDG framework on the one-hand reaffirms the key role of land degradation (throughout SDG 15) SDG 11 is unable to make the nexus between demographic change and land consumption explicit (by mathematical formulation). Empirical results of this study carried with the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) open and free data to quantify the global extent of urban centers and their population in 2000 and 2015 demonstrate that the marginal land consumption per new inhabitant is considerably diverse across settlements that develop with comparable Land Use Efficiency values.
This research is innovative for the use if the "built-up areas" semantic derived from remote sensing, to establish a land based nexus between the two SDGs and for the implications of the findings suggesting a differentiated treatment of the same natural resource across SDGs.
Flash talk
110R Multi-objective optimization approaches to support visioning and decision-making in land-use system science
Keywords: system perspective, integration amongst sectors, carbon neutrality, societal transformation
An application of the S-loop model to identify potential pathways towards sustainability in Irish land use
University College Dublin, Ireland
Depending on the approach to land use and management, land use offers opportunities for the conservation and restoration of natural capital and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In Ireland, over 30% of the national greenhouse gas emissions are from agriculture. These emissions need to be drastically reduced and it is envisaged that carbon neutrality will be reached by mid-century amongst all land use activities. However, this required land use and management change must be seen in the context of other demands placed on land use. In this project the S-loop model, which is a learning model for sustainability, was used. This model guides the integration of current knowledge on sustainability goals across sectors, the activities, which must change and the system within which the change has to occur. Using expert interviews, a complete description of factors influencing Irish land use was attempted as well as information on activities gathered. I will present this overview over the factors that affect land use in Ireland currently. The interviews revealed that there are two ways of framing the factors amongst experts: one of them is the 'landscape perspective', i.e. the perception of a spatial juxtaposition or overlap of different interests in terms of their claims to using land, the second one is the 'agricultural value chain' perspective, where it is essential that the different sectors develop in a coordinated manner. For the ongoing dialogue on how to best transform Irish land use towards sustainability, which includes the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, it is important to recognize these different perspectives and assure that critical factors as identified in this project are not left out from any proposed solutions. Furthermore, the S-loop model was used to identify knowledge gaps and to produce research recommendations for the Environmental Protection Agency's research programme.


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Special Guest Alex Godinez on Going Back to School for L&D
Oct 28, 2018 • 55 minutes
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Community Discussion: Do You Need An Instructional Design Degree?
Apr 6, 2019 • 58 minutes
Today our TLDCast discussion was focused on whether or not an instructional design degree is required to be successful in L&D. We had a nice split of guests: two of them had L&D related degrees and two didn't — but had degrees outside of our industry. Also, we had one guest that doesn't have a degree and is currently working on getting his undergrad.
The guests were: Bethany Paterson – has non-L&D Degree Alan Natachu – has non-L&D Degree Alex Godinez – currently enrolled in a degree program, no previous degree Cara North – L&D Degree Chris Stadler – L&D Degree
So Why the Conundrum? Instructional Design has been around for some 75 years, but many still wonder what instructional designers — who are only now just gaining acceptance in higher ed and corporate training — do.
Is it the changing landscape of the role that lends itself to this idea that it's easy to circumvent a related degree? Is the nature of this career going to completely shift so that it's a combination of fields, versus one that is specifically L&D?
Listen to this episode to learn more!
You can find more detailed information, direct links to the episode, and more here in this blog post: https://tldc.us/2019/04/06/community-discussion-do-you-need-an-instructional-design-degree/
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Side Sliding Garage Doors – one of the most traditional door designs in the UK
Forgotten vertical panel layout nowadays looks like new. In fact modern technologies reborn old and good design for new life.
Forgotten vertical panel layout nowadays looks like new. In fact modern technologies reborn old and good design for new life.
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Door panels slide vertically suspended from a high performing aluminum top rail. Consequently the guiding rail allow the door to pivot against the garages side wall. Special design guiding rail, trolleys and threshold ensure smooth and reliable operation. We manufacture side sliding garage doors from own made panels filled with Freon-free PU foam. As a result door have the best possible insulation. Also brush seals are all around the door perimeter. Above mentioned features give maximum available protection from the elements. Standard is the right angle guiding rail corner. In addition we can make guiding rail with custom acute and obtuse angle corners. No doubt Side sliding garage doors rightfully deserve their name for nice and smooth motion.
Ryterna side sliding doors can open to either side. Also for wider projects we recommend to part in two. For this reason this is known as 'Bi-Parting' garage doors. You can split the door in two even parts. Custom split also available. The only limitation – there must be at least 3 panels on one side. It is about 1.5 metre wide. The high quality guiding rail is both heavy duty and maintenance free. We mount threshold profile on top of the floor. And car-friendly threshold is only 18 mm high. In fact threshold profile is absolutely maintenance free. Ryterna make side sliding garage doors hardware from anodised aluminum and zinc plated steel. High quality trolleys with roller bearings ensure smooth and easy motion. Therefore Ryterna side sliding garage doors have excellent performance and long service life.
We manufacture custom size side sliding doors. One door has a maximum size of 6 metres wide by 3 metres high. Actually we recommend to split in 2 bi-parting doors for openings wider than 5 metres. Please consult with us regarding extra wide openings – custom built doors could be a perfect solution in many hopeless situations. Side sliding garage doors go behind reveal. And that mean that there is no frame required. With sliding garage door you can retain full brick-to-brick daylight opening. As a result Ryterna developed aluminium lintel profile and post system. Elegant, easy to install and maintenance free profiles are perfect solution. Furthermore aluminium profiles can be painted any colour to match garage door or house facade.
We offer 14 panel designs which can be painted any RAL or BS colour. In addition, smooth surface panels can be painted with a metallic or structure finish. By combining different colour's, door panels and stainless steel windows on one door can create an individually stunning design.
In addition 6 wood effect panels can be specified to compliment any environment. In addition we offer individually designed Okoume & Alumax designs. Panels clad with 12 mm okoume plywood or 2.5 mm aluminium sheet. We can carve standard motifs and custom pictures. In this way we can recreate required door image.
We also care about the inside of you garage door. Ryterna standard internal paint finish is RAL 9002 (Grey White). But almost any colour can be specified. Above all we can powder coat door hardware to match upon request.
Glazed Panels are gaining popularity. Ryterna can produce door with just the right amount of Glazing to suit your needs. You can order fully glazed door or combination of standard and glazed panels. Glazed doors are perfect choice for hobby space, workshop or vintage car garage. Café or shop owners install fully glazed sectional door instead of front window. As a result you can convert closed space in to the open within a minutes.
For underground parkings we use ventilation panels. Ventilation panels ensure necessary air flow and perfect ventilation.
Stainless steel & PVC windows are the most popular choice. Ryterna have no standard window layouts. So you can decide on position, colour and glazing. Above all custom made shapes available. It's as easy as design/sketch the layout you want and then consult on feasibility. The addition of windows, stainless steel decoration appliques or personal design options make Ryterna side sliding doors truly personal.
You can operate side sliding garage door manually or with electric operator. For bigger size doors and everyday use we recommend electric operation. In fact side sliding garage doors have any counterbalance systems as sectional door do. As a result you will have to apply enough force to set in motion big door.


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25th Anniversary of VANS WARPED TOUR Announced!5 min read
Following the announcement that 2018 would be the last cross-country run, the Vans Warped Tour headed out for a final summer of music, philanthropy, and community.
Looking back on it now, Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman shares, "It was truly an honor to do a final cross-country run of Warped in 2018; to see fans from all eras of the tour come out for a day to celebrate an event that meant so much to them. I walked away from the final show with a true sense that the Vans Warped Tour became the community I had always hoped for."
Fans can expect the heart of the Warped Tour experience to be intact, but on a much larger scale over 2 full days. 50+ bands across multiple stages, extreme sports ranging from skateboarding to motocross, and an exhibit of art that has come out of the tour's history.
"With the [Vans Warped Tour] 25th Anniversary events, we want to bring the atmosphere of a classic Warped Tour show, but on a scale that our fans simply could not get with a national tour " explains Lyman, "The bands, the special attractions, everything – we want to bring back elements that have made the Warped Tour, Warped Tour, over the past 25 years."
7.20 + 7.21 • MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA • SHORELINE AMPHITHEATREThe individual band lineup and special attractions for each of the Vans Warped Tour presented by Journeys 25th Anniversary events, will be announced Friday, March 1st. Pre-sales will begin on Monday February 28th and tickets will be available to all on Friday, March 1st.
For many, this announcement comes as no surprise; the Vans Warped Tour 25th Anniversary was eluded to in Lyman's original statement about the end of the Vans Warped Tour:
" 'The enduring spirit of the Vans Warped Tour remains as bright as ever, continuing to inspire creativity and ambition in new and exciting ways as we prepare for a 25th anniversary celebration in 2019.' "
For more information, fans can visit – https://fanlink.to/VWT25
JUNE 8 • CLEVELAND, OH • ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAMEThe Vans Warped Tour has partnered with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to create a special new exhibit, Forever Warped: 25 Years of Vans Warped Tour, celebrating a quarter-century of the iconic traveling music festival. This comprehensive exhibit documents the history of the tour from its inception in 1995 through the final cross-country run in 2018.
Visitors will see artifacts from quintessential Warped bands and breakout artists from the tour's lengthy run, including instruments played by members of Fall Out Boy, No Doubt, Rancid and Reel Big Fish and stage clothing worn by Joan Jett and Ice-T. The exhibit will also present iconic items from the very first Warped Tour, as well as from 2018's final touring run. And much more!
On Saturday, June 8th, 2019, the Forever Warped will kick off with a special opening concert featuring bands from across the 24-year history of the tour, a mini vert ramp, and more!
Set to a backdrop of sun, sand and surf, the Vans Warped Tour will celebrate its 25th Anniversary with a special two-day extravaganza on the beach in Atlantic City on Saturday, June 29 and Sunday, June 30, 2019. Atlantic City will be one of only three cities to host the Warped Tour and the only one on the East Coast.
The Vans Warped Tour's 25th Anniversary event features 50+ bands across multiple stages over the two-day event, extreme sports ranging from skateboarding to motocross, and an exhibit of Warped Tour art that has come out of the tour's history.
"We're thrilled to host the only East Coast celebration of Vans Warped Tour's 25th Anniversary on the Atlantic City Beach," said Geoff Gordon, Live Nation Philadelphia Regional President. "Warped Tour was meant to take place on the surf and sand, so we welcome fans from across North America to experience this unforgettable weekend with us in Atlantic City."
After a sold out show at the Shoreline Amphitheatre for the final cross-country run, the Vans Warped Tour makes a triumphant return to the Bay Area for a special 25th Anniversary 2-day event on Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.
The Vans Warped Tour's 25th Anniversary event features 50+ bands across multiple stages over the two-day event, extreme sports ranging from skateboarding to motocross, and an exhibit of Warped Tour art that has come out of the tour's history.
It's only fitting that Warped Tour would choose the Bay Area's as it became an instant second home to the event that got its start in the punk community of Southern California.
"I think probably close to half the bands on the first Warped Tour had some tie to the Bay Area," remembers Lyman, "there was the up-and-coming band The Deftones, and then of course the Fat Wreck [Chords] roster – Good Riddance, No Use For A Name, Face to Face, and Tilt."
The Vans Warped Tour was the largest traveling music festival in the United States, and the longest-running touring music festival in North America. Originally conceived by founder Kevin Lyman in 1995 as an eclectic alternative rock festival, with a focus on punk rock, over the years the tour grew to include a multitude of genres, including metal, hip hop, reggae, pop and more. It established itself as one of the best tours to attend to discover emerging acts, to learn more about wonderful non-profits and companies who are working to make a positive impact on the world that surround them, and to meet like-minded friends.
The tour also cemented its place in history by bringing alternative rock and skate culture from the underground to the forefront of global youth culture, while at the same time helping those in need through non-profit and eco initiatives.
Over the past two decades, Vans Warped Tour built a legacy as the must attend summer festival for rock and music lovers alike. Since its start in 1995, it provided a platform for established as well as up-and-coming artists, with alumni including blink182, No Doubt, Sublime, Beck, Katy Perry, NOFX, Limp Bizkit, Black Eyed Peas, Green Day, Eminem, Yellowcard, Bad Religion, and countless others.
Alternative Press readers voted the Vans Warped Tour as the "Best Tour/Festival" and Rolling Stone called it "America's Most Successful Festival".


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