The Studio
We are a studio for the social imagination—a space where, with you, and with a multi-disciplinary lens, we co-create something outstanding. Any time you contract Ignited Word, your project is automatically brought into our studio, ensuring that not only will we relentlessly innovate in service of your objectives, we'll also help you build your team's ability to create, innovate, and imagine.
You can bring a single project into our studio or work with us on a series of collaborations that cumulatively strengthen your team's creative muscle as you journey along our arc of services. You can tap as many or as few of the studio's resources — provided to you at no additional cost — as you desire. Either way, we'll serve as thought partners and skilled creators for your endeavors.
Studio Resources for All Clients
Exploring New Horizons
We live in a time where the status quo is being widely questioned, and as such, organizations should also regularly re-examine their value proposition. At the start of the engagement – or even pre- scope of work – we'll bring you a mini workshop with the "universal grammars of creativity" – structured imagination techniques that may help you expand the horizons of your value proposition.
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Wishing Wall
If you have a project you'd like to bring into our studio, we hope you'll write to us right away at info@ignitedword.com! Have a project you wish you could bring into our studio but can't (at the moment)? Write it on our wishing wall as a way of manifesting it (and only if you don't mind anyone "stealing" it). Ideas have a way of coming to life when they are manifested.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
—Buckminster Fuller
The Showcase
The Studio's Showcase section features special projects from our team—an exhibition of our ongoing quest to explore the reaches of creativity.
Web Zine: Revolution Starts With a Pop of Idea
Ena Taguiam designed and authored this insightful and beautifully presented look into the deeper side of pop culture.
Comic: Ena Taguiam, the Development Sector Protector
Jay Black explores comic book storytelling in this part biography, part superhero adventure about our research and communications assistant, Ena.
Why Filipinos Laugh Through It All
“in filipino culture, laughing isn’t just about finding something funny-it’s a survival strategy. we use self-deprecating jokes and satire to process realities.” With this intro, Ena Taguiam takes us on a riotous meme tour of “Filipinisms,” all while exploring belonging in the digital age. “this kind of humor releases pent-up tension, punches back at power, and turns a painful situation into a shared moment of relief.”Edit the content in this column layout so people engage with your email.
Testing the Limits of AI Filmmaking
Because we can’t get enough of problems in the year 2040 (who knew today’s would be insufficient?), our resident filmmaker and cineaste Jay Black turned The Reviewer of Pious Money into a suspenseful (cue dramatic music) short film as he acquaints himself with AI filmmaking.
Can a Fake Consulting Firm Fix the Economy?
Brandishing services ranging from innovation ethics committees, to greed management, to culture and neohumanism, Malaika Cheney-Coker’s fake consulting firm EconoWe takes on the formidable task of supporting “neohumanist” economies.
From Whiteboard to Content Strategy
With a supersized ambition for a social media posting schedule of three (!) posts per day, Troy Felias used a virtual whiteboard as a sandbox for a customizable content calendar.
