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Collaborative Sensemaking & the Irreducible Burdens of Healthcare Information

Are EHRs (Electronic Health Records) Error Inducing Machines?
Thanks to Brady Anderson on the Design for Care community site who alerted us to Dr. Christine Sinsky’s “eNirvana – Are we There Yet?”
I believe we are “not yet there.”  As long as the Medicare specification known as “meaningful use “criteria ignores design, usability, [...]

Dialogue is collectively making sense of things.

Design with Dialogue, our Toronto community of practice, is moving into its 20th month of regular sessions at OCAD’s Strategic Innovation Lab. Our new website shows current and upcoming events, and we’ll update the archives from the old site soon enough.
We are making new connections between dialogic group communication, design problem solving, facilitated consultation, and [...]

Opening Space for Community Dialogue

In Dayton, Toronto, and everywhere I’m seeing increased passion for people creating opportunities for community dialogue to enable people facing local concerns in common to exchange and cooperate. In most cases, we see the co-emergence of the need to facilitate occasions for real face-to-face dialogues and to sustain efforts and action by online social networking. [...]

A Peter Jones Place

Dialogue - the search through meaning to understanding - is not common in our culture. Consider how people use the word to refer to very different communicative practices. Dialogue makes sense of different perspectives for a shared concern and enables wise action from that understanding.

Unlike the strategic goal of designed experiences, where we become spectators or at best players, dialogue enacts the real. Dialogic design is not reinventing the social; it is intentional social system design. It is inquiry, understanding, enactment - not technique. It means asking questions that help us discover what matters.

How can Design do better by doing good? How might we innovate a future with more meaning and less stuff? What are the emerging practices of new citizenship? Who are we educating ourselves to become?

Innovation is always turning toward what's next, and what's next is the move toward socially relevant and sustainable practices.

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