theories
Creating and Re-Creating Frameworks
So how about keep creating and re-creating the frameworks and models we use? Import them from someone else might help but is very limited. Work your insights into a framework……
Beauty and Something Else
I know that I know when the object of knowledge is beautiful, both through my lenses and to the eyes of the collective. Seemed a good beginning to my exploration. Why is beauty a successful criteria in choosing a correct path/theory/work?…
How Can We Live Together?
Ten year-old kids in Copenhagen during COP15 explored a scenario where their family lived in a house with a big garden. Surrounding…
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…
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…
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…
A Process of Inquiry to Improve our Systems Design
The reflection around Systems being our creation and therefore part of our judgment invites us to act as participants/system designers rather than…
Decision-Making and Automatisms
I’ve got some questions about my last post on this affirmation: “the act of continuous decision-making requires an automatism”. Perhaps that a…