By Designdialogues, on December 28th, 2011% 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
By Designdialogues, on June 7th, 2011% Mark Hurst posts on Good Experience the argument that information overload suppresses comprehension and creates an absence of understanding and retention: To solve info overload, make friends with The Nothing
In my experience this is true, and is moreover a testable proposition. Mark says:
Because the only way to really make information disappear, these days, . . . → Read More: Avoiding Informatics Overload
By Designdialogues, on May 27th, 2010% Consider design research – is it a discipline or no? Consider design researchers – researchers or are we really design consultants? A discipline has a body of knowledge, and a clear way of contributing to literature so that we know what we know. A real discipline has a theoretical base, and ways of using that . . . → Read More: Experience research: Making Sense of Sensemakers?
By Designdialogues, on May 2nd, 2010% Dr. Brenda Dervin presented a lecture and workshop at University of Toronto’s KMDI, kicking off the Making Sense Of series led by professor Peter Pennefather, KMDI outreach director. Peter and I hosted Brenda as befitting this first session in a series of workshops on “how we make sense” in several different domains. What’s new is . . . → Read More: Making Sense of Sensemaking
By Designdialogues, on April 15th, 2010% Sense-making in Collaborative Practice: Can Media Design Support Sensemaking in Professional Practice Collaboration and Decision Making? This conversational workshop is designed as a “dialogue” between a panel of 5 question-askers and Dr. Brenda Dervin.
The framing for the conversation has been developed by the panelists. Through a series of questions and answers, Dr. Dervin will . . . → Read More: Making Sense of Sensemaking with Dr. Brenda Dervin
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Realizations by Peter Jones 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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