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You know the Singularity is coming. Get ready for The Multiplicity. The workshop entices participants to co-create a future in collaboration as an act of personal foresight. We take on the creation of possible personal scenarios that confront the future opportunities for humanity, positioning our inherent multiplicities as creative narratives to counter the technologically-determined future . . . → Read More: Designing a Future for our Future We have been working with Occupy Toronto for a few weeks now, and have even ramped up the engagement since the camp came down mid-week. Grad students and even president Sara Diamond from OCAD University have been involved , along with the Design Exchange, with two major community events located (ironically enough) in the deco-era . . . → Read More: What’s Your Occupation? We often speak of social innovation as if we’re applying the principles of business and product innovation to a social product. However, there are significant differences in how we treat service markets and how we participate in communities where we (and participants) have a democratic stake. They are both social systems, but markets are organized . . . → Read More: Contrarian, Spiritual, Strategic Innovation In expanding roles as social designers and process facilitators, can we help communities and organizations change an enduring and robust values system? If we are outside of the social system being intervened, can we really help change values, or is this an inside job? I’ve been part of an online argument about this question. Systems . . . → Read More: Organizational evolution: Are values really accessible in design? Designers and people in the caring professions may have different and valid ways to think about caring and systems. On the Wenovski design community a wide-ranging discussion involves the question of designing “systems that care.” I take a position that we can care for systems practices, but systems will not perform as caring agents. (We . . . → Read More: What is our “Standard of Care” for Design? |
Whether from fear or habit, our culture is not innovating the democratic change sufficient to our time. We face an urgent challenge to make the differences that effect changes that so many seek. Our cultural and social institutions have peaked out, but in their wiley senescence they have protected themselves from structural innovation. From healthcare to finance, politics to education, infrastructures & decision processes, we can & must reinvent social futures. Our societal systems have grown beyond their capacity to transform by management. Collaboration alone is insufficient - We truly need new cultures of co-innovation, collectively deciding, and socially organizing. A community of practice meets for these dialogues in person every 2nd Wednesday in Toronto: Art, science, and design are different ways of knowing. In the fields of action (business, community, and social co-creation) they regenerate each other. All ways of knowing are invited to the dance of change, if we are to interfere & reinvent our values and systems to open these possibilities. Your participation is required. |
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