theories

by Phil Manker

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……

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by Jitterousperth

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?…

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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…

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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…

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Imagine

Looking at the books at the airport I saw a whole session on the Harvard Business Reviews – some relatively old. Still…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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