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On Design Observer Bruce Nussbaum wants to fail Financial Times’ top 100 business schools. Let’s Give an “F” to the FT List of Best Business Schools OK, at least some of them. But it is hard to argue with their top 10 – Stanford has the d.school link, and Wharton is a top systems and . . . → Read More: Should the MBA be a creative program? 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? The design industry grew rapidly in the 20th century, by satisfying the massive and growing needs of consumer products, industrial systems, and a business ethos of growth, fueled by advertising. I observe a significant change occurring in the language and outlook of people in the design fields, especially apparent in my adopted home city of . . . → Read More: Design Leadership for Problem Systems |
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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