Literacy for Design and Evaluation
If you design or evaluate things, why not share what you know with people who design and evaluate things for
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Reflections on AEA 2022
My first in-person conference in almost three years yielded surprises, disappointments, and the expected awkwardness. This time of year is
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Learning Farewells and Chapter Turns
The story of learning through conferences and Twitter intertwines in a story that might be coming to an end for
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Design for Living Systems
Designing for living systems is an approach to creating things for a world in flux and generating benefit for it.
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Humanity-Centred Design or Designing for Living Systems?
The focus on human qualities in understanding design can come at the cost of disconnecting people from the world they
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Design For Principles
In this final installment on Principles Focused Evaluation, we look at how to connect our data with our designs. If
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Principles in Action
Principled or values-driven approaches to strategy only have value when we can put them into practice. In this latest post
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Putting Principles in Practice
A good principle can be a source of inspiration and guidance for action and accountability if we know how to develop it.
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Systems and Evaluative Thinking
Systems and evaluative thinking are at the core of Principles-Focused Evaluation, and using both can help us think and act better.
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Systems and Complexity: Implications for Evaluation
This second in a series on Principles-Focused Evaluation (PFE) draws our attention to the concepts of systems and complexity and
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