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
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Apparently, that shape is not a “T.” Kevin McCullagh (as well as Humantific’s own Elizabeth Pastor) attended and spoke at the DMI Design Management Conference earlier this month and now tells on Is it Time to Rethink the T-Shaped Designer in CORE77. First of all, I’m jazzed to see DMI ratcheting up the relevance. And . . . → Read More: The Optimal Geometry of Social Design I find it interesting that so much is being said about design thinking now, so many years after it is was (probably) first floated as a term by Richard Buchanan (1992). In fact, Adam Richardson wrote so succinctly on this last year that I’ll just cite him instead of Richard. We now tend to think . . . → Read More: Design Thinking’s Convergence Diversion Uffe Elbaeck, the founder of Denmark’s innovative social design organization KaosPilot, generously shared his breakthrough leadership experience in organizing the recent Outgames 2009. While visiting in Toronto, we were very fortunate to have him join us for our Design with Dialogue session, at OCAD’s Strategic Innovation Lab. Uffe shared his experience using the Kaospilot models . . . → Read More: Uffe Elbaeck rocks Toronto’s Designers with Dialogue After attending a game-changing event, how do you share the experience so that a casual reader understands the impact? That, perhaps, there is a game being changed and that some projects we believed important before the event may appear less consequential after the event. The 2009 Global Forum, Business as an Agent for World Benefit . . . → Read More: Design + Business as Agents of World Benefit |
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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