By Designdialogues, on November 8th, 2010% Michael Brenner proposes Shut Up Wednesdays, and I like this idea. We all talk too much these days. With two huge cohorts of talkers (Boomers + Millenials), “social everything,” and the general anxiety to look good when all is crashing down around us, I find myself overwhelmed by trivial chat.
Here’s the key blurb on . . . → Read More: Thank You for Sharing
By Designdialogues, on June 19th, 2010% As I’ve continued to develop material for the Design for Care project, I’m struck by the difference between design for practice and design for individual health-seeking. In designing for practice, ethnographic research and work domain analysis enable us to understand the range of activities and scope of work performed in professional work. A rigorous analysis . . . → Read More: First Person Design for Healthcare Innovation
By Designdialogues, on June 3rd, 2010% [110] in the Methods You Don’t Use Yet series
Expert Roundtable Review
Problem: For a product or service inquiry, we often see the need to rapidly gather highly relevant feedback and informed opinions on a new concept. A similar problem is noted when a project team is identifying the opportunities for innovation and must conduct . . . → Read More: Hybrid Design Research Method: Roundtable Review
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
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Innovation of / in Reality What is happening right now that brought you here today?
Design Dialogues exchanges points of view on design-led innovation, social research, and systemic design. One viewpoint is that my ideas may be evolving, and not final. I do invite you to share your ideas and responses. @redesign is always a good start.
What's the innovation of reality? Our economic and social institutions have hit peak governance. This means (roughly), all decisions from 2008 on will cost twice as much to employ. Yet our systems have defended themselves well from structural innovation, while they continue to demand (micro) "innovation" to sustain their grasp.
Societal systems have grown beyond their capacity to transform by management. Yet they are largely designed to disarm bottom-up change. Collaboration alone is insufficient - We truly need new cultures of co-innovation, collectively deciding, and socially organizing.
A community of practice meets for dialogues in person every 2nd Wednesday in Toronto:

Art, science, and design are different ways of knowing. In the arenas 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 requested, and required.
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