8 occurrences and development of events in the absence of any obvious design

1. Jonathan Bélisle
CHANCE
8 occurrences and development of events in the absence of any obvious design

2. I am a partner and Chief Experience Architect at
We enable business to tap into the potential of the Internet of Things using Storytelling and Experience Design.

3. - 1 -
Relationship to nature
- The forest told me -

4. Relationship to nature
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Sacred Geometries & Canopies
Inner Dialogues
Moods, Thoughts, Emotions
Fire, Forest, Rain, Winds, Lunar Cycles
Healing with Smell & Sounds
We are lucky to have nature. Connecting with nature helps us develop
the ability to see the hidden signs our deep selves are sending us.

5. - 2 -
Family
- Learn to Lead, Learn to Fail -

6. Family
If you had the chance to experience happy family moments, you know what is communion
and how to make a space/place feel home and safe. Whenever you can, create safe space
to learn to lead and to fail, for you and the ones around you.
Open House Parenthood
Astral Brotherhood
Travel Expands Memory
Love of Books, Visual Arts & Music

7. - 3 -
Enuresy
Guinea Pig and Lucid Dreaming

9. Enuresy
If you had the chance to pee in your bed every night for 18 years of your life, what would you
get out of it ? My mother really helped me keep an eye on what I could learn from that
temporary condition.
Strong Sense of Humour / Patience & Humility
Lucid Dreaming, Language & Self Healing
Playing with High-tech really Young
Biological Failure / Cognitive Breakthrough
Guinea Pig in Neuro Science
Posthypnotic Suggestions
Hypnosis

10. - 4 -
Suburbs
Boredom and Commuting

11. Suburbs
Do you remember the suburbs and the plaintive flock of landscapes ? Solitude, when
appreciated, can yield amazing results. The suburbs gave me the chance to reflect on the
broken aspects of consumption society model while fully living in it. Nothing ever happens in
the suburbs and yet this is what I needed to make it happen today.
1. Reading & Writing a lot
2. Many Bands
3. Urbanism, Architecture & Commuting
4. Thinking About the Future
5. Solitude

12. - 5 -
Career Orientation
“You are only a clown”

13. Career orientation
There is no plan. Apply a little buddhism to your career. Right vision, right intention, right
speech, right action, right effort, right mindfulness, right living hood, right concentration.
What are your programming tools ? How do you document your life ? How do you awake ?
Creating Comics on Recycled Industrial Plans
Interactive Literature & Childhood Cinema Projects
Skate Films & Video Games
Documenting Suburbs Culture & Lifestyles
Cinema as a Programming Tool

14. - 6 -
The Internet Bubble
- Lose it all, even the vision -

15. The Internet Bubble
Luck is what happens when you are prepared to accept the
unexpected and forget about what was planned. The Web is
an ensemble of perpetual coincidences.
!
Interactive Literature Comes Handy
Finding Flow at Work thru Play
Spiritual Awakenings in the Server Room
The Limits of My Body
UX Consciousness

18. “When the woman spoke English, the
volunteers understood her story, and
their brains synchronized. When she
had activity in her insula, an emotional
brain region, the listeners did too.
When her frontal cortex lit up, so did
theirs. By simply telling a story, the
woman could plant ideas, thoughts and
emotions into the listeners’ brains.”

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Channeling
Expanded State of Consciousness

24. Channeling
Focused thoughts are what make things happen. Wild imagination often
generate more anxieties than results, but it leads to meaningfulness.
!
Get closer to your fears & daemons
Imagination is dialogic. Tell Stories.
Bibliomancy, Painting, Collage & Sketching
Think about holons
Raising Kids
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25. - 8 -
Dream Weaving
Awakening the whale

26. Dream Weaving
Go on a vision quest and don’t expect results. Adopt a teleological perspective. Stay
High Touch. Develop awareness and empathy as it is eroded by economies built upon
the the attention-driven computing schemes.
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Table of content + Automatic writing + Music
Create an early metaphorical Structure + Improvize thru it + Create music while writing
1.The Nostalgic Force (childhood)!
2.The Dawn Holder (Wuxia - Totemic Guide) !
3.Oremia and the Hologram (Bohm) !
4.The Oceanic Feeling (Nioma)!
5.Sonorus Return (Jupiter)!
6.Noth & The Junning (the sewer sity)!
7.The Sensor Age (where humanity is heading)!
8.The Noetic Age (where humanity should be heading)!
Apply visual thinking everywhere.
Ride the tiger. Find your muse project.
We already live in a programmable world.
Avoid group thinking and bring teleological arguments whenever possible to drift away from transhumanist
agendas.
Stay High Touch.
!
!

27. Dream Weaving

28. Dream Weaving

29. Wuxia’s adventures depict the effects of climate
change on human behaviour and the unexpected
directions humanity might take once the
transition from the Information Age to the Age of
Sensor is complete.
!
This projection into a different yet not so distant
future sharpens our awareness of our own reality
and how we can affect it.
!
The story also gives parents an in as conscious
actors in their children’s search for meaning and
pleasure.
!
Major global issues addressed by Wuxia include
water, children, climate change, and the
disappearance of cultures and languages.
Wuxia the fox

30. Wuxia the fox

31. Wuxia the fox

32. It is known that, from birth to 8
years old, children discover the
world mostly thru role-play and
gestural interactions until they
fully develop a structured
language. They use their hands
to interpret reality and express
what they feel in physical
interactions with the
environments and objects that
surrounds them.!
!
The symbology associated to
the manipulation of physical
objects was fascinating to me
and I found it more exciting
than to create new interactions
on an iPad. In fact, I wanted that
the iPad app could connect to
that experience of the child
growth and adapt to it.
Wuxia the fox

33. I wanted to encourage my daugther to
appreciate slow and contemplative
lecture because I observed that she
would invent stories and ways to tell
stories faster and with more imagination.

34. Wuxia the fox

35. Merci de votre attention !
Twitter @wuxia
jonathan@sagaworld.ca
wuxia.ca / iotheatre.co / soundscapr.com

36. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that
it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and
accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however
mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can
have genuine meaning and fulfillment.
!
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
!
Stanley Kubrick Interviewed by Eric Nordern (september 1968)