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Design is not a single discipline, it is rather a changing world of changing the world. And design thinking has evolved. But has design research evolved? Transforming Contexts: UC DAAP talk, May 8, 2009 View more presentations from Peter Jones. While the processes and perspectives collectively referred to as “design thinking” have evolved progressively . . . → Read More: Design Research – Techniques for Transforming the Context Toronto’s OCAD is seeking completing the intake for the first class of students for the new graduate program, MDes in Strategic Foresight & Innovation. The inaugural class looks outstanding, as most are mid-career multidisciplinary professionals with experience in business and social innovation. They are as smart and experienced as many of the faculty, which helps . . . → Read More: OCAD’s MDes in Strategic Foresight & Innovation By now, anyone reading Design Dialogues will have heard that Innovation (as a business concept) died in 2008. Bruce Nussbaum, who gets to decide these things, declares at the New Year: “Innovation” is Dead. Herald The Birth of “Transformation” as The Key Concept for 2009. Scan among the 61 reader comments, and you’ll see today’s . . . → Read More: Innovation – Not Dead Yet! So now also says Bruno Latour, in a keynote lecture given at History of Design Society, Falmouth, September 2008 “A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design.” The fourth advantage I see in the word “design” (in addition to its modesty, its attention to detail and the semiotic skills it always carries . . . → Read More: All Design is Redesign |
Design Dialogues invites you to examine ideas, new and old. Everything humanity creates is work-in-progress, and so is open to dialogue. Re-visions and re-views are welcome. Design Dialogues is for working out ideas, before they find their way into practice or in actual publications. Innovators all face an urgent challenge to make the differences that must happen; there is no longer any status quo. Many of our trusted institutions & social contracts are now broken. Whether from fear or habit, our culture is not yet innovating democratically. We do not really know how to collaborate sufficiently to the task. From healthcare to finance, politics to education, infrastructures & decision processes, we can & must reinvent our own futures. These social systems have evolved beyond their capacity to transform by management. Collaboration is insufficient - We truly need new ways of working, deciding, and organizing. Of the many ways to collaborative intelligence, some demonstrably better than others. Dialogic design, based on systems thinking & design science, offers a validated way to create new understandings, design systemically, & act democratically on the deep drivers of a problem. A community of practice meets for these dialogues in person every 2nd Wednesday in Toronto: Art, science, and design are three ways of knowing, and in the field of action they inform each other. All modes must be recruited if we are to interfere & reinvent social systems. Your participation is required. |
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