complexity
A Soul Generated by Love
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to…
Heroes of Hiroshima
Hiroshima today is a beautiful city. You don’t need to be an ace in history to know that this was the city…
How to contribute to addressing a complex problem through multi-stakeholder processes?
Starting with this question I’ve just been through a reflection on a developed approach called Change Lab that aims to create social…
Imagine
Looking at the books at the airport I saw a whole session on the Harvard Business Reviews – some relatively old. Still…
Multi-Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Development
This is the first draft conclusion of a paper around this topic. Multi-Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Development Synergies Between Appreciative Inquiry and…
Community Trust and Effective Decision-Making
Participatory design becomes real in a sense of community – creating community and building on the social fabric is essential for trust…
The World is Abundant to the Ones with Open Eyes
In Peace with Descartes Going to the next step in bridging the simple and the complex goes through a serious conversation with…
Structural Determinism and the Pursuit of Conservation and Boundaries
Took me some time to read the most recent work of Maturana (co-authored with Ximena Dávila) and their biological-cultural matrix of human…
On Design
Looking around the topic we can see many ways of engaging to design. In systems design, sometimes different types of involvement are…
Conversations are Essential to the Construction of Collective Meaning
Conversations are essential to the construction of collective meaning and creation of systems. For instance, one important characteristic of a system is…