Crisis Designer Weekly Podcast

In this episode, Robert talks about environmental storytelling and human terrain modelling, while Belén reflects on how to apply proxemics (the relation between distances and communication) when designing a scenario. What caught our eye goes from Russian hybrid warfare, Bioshock movie and video games and Youtube misinformation reports.

In this episode, we tap into storyboards as a valuable tool when creating scenarios. Many interesting things caught our eye this week: from real-life complex issues with operational and political implications, cyber-attacks with China links and cool open-source projects and DIY.

In this episode, we invited Rob Walley from Controlled events to talk about risk and readiness in 2022. We review upcoming scenarios and discuss how companies are approaching exercising this year, apart from sharing tips and strategies for crisis design, facilitation and assessment. What caught our eye this week goes from cybersecurity trends and the media battle for the cognitive domain to introducing our brand new hybrid warfare model DUSTS.

In this episode, we launch Season 02! To celebrate this, we talk about social engineering and how to think like the attacker in a red-teaming exercise, but we also discuss the brand new Business Continuity benchmarking report and its 2022 insights about BC teams. Some cool items caught our eye this week, from psy-ops agencies and star nurseries to news-trust stats and Slovak games.

In this episode (the last episode of our first season!), we discuss types of immersion and how to apply them to tabletop exercises. We also talk about the measurement of effects and discover different frameworks for encouraging behavioural change. And what caught our eye this week ranges from GTA radio stations, an immersive Arkham asylum and the TV show “Social Media, Anger and Us”

In this episode, we invite our Crisis Designer Ondrej Palicka to discuss a counter-terrorism scenario he’s putting together, so we talk about design considerations, disinformation techniques and different actors in this real-attack-inspired exercise focusing on the “golden hour”, that is, the first 60 minutes after an incident. We also discuss the Olympics' boycott, Israel digital occupation and five political games that explain the world (and could be great Xmas presents).

In this episode, we explain emotional contagion and how it affects the spread of information on social networks (and in the crisis room). We also discuss a simple 3-attribute framework for improving your scenario characters to prevent them from being bland. And what caught our eye were a number of reports from Facebook, Graphika & the BCI. Oh and Abbie Richards' infographic on conspiracy theories.

It’s a special guest episode this week featuring Angelique LaRue. Angelique is the Social Media Director at TribalVision, an agency with offices in Boston, MA and Warwick, RI. Previously she worked at Cracker Barrel in Tennessee and Shakey's Pizza in California. She has over 12+ years of digital marketing experience specializing in social media & social media marketing for businesses.

We also discuss the Kyle Rittenhouse narratives, an influencer taken hostage by cyber crooks,  a Russian anti-vaccine disinformation campaign that backfires and Big Bird being banned from a political conference.

In this episode we discuss how to evaluate team performance, how to get teams collaborating and present six steps to ensure your scenarios are always engaging. What caught our eye was FIFA/EA/Burger King, flooding in Canada, Marriott hotel in Prague, Frances admits to influence operations and a nice infographic from the Global Network on Counter-Extremism.

In this episode we discuss writing a scenario around the Guy Fawkes gunpowder plot and the importance of storyworld for natural disasters. What caught our eye was Squid Game cryptocurrency and the UK Defence document about societal resilience and an article on the use of information operations around a ransomware attack on the NRA.

In this episode we discuss the Facebook name change to Meta, the Facebook reputational crisis, volcanic eruptions in La Palma, East Center’s Disinformation Resilience Index report,  Netflix walkout, the science of storytelling, our BCI panel on multi-national remote exercising. Plus.. games we’re playing this weekend - Cyberpunk 2077 and Lost Judgement.