August 2013

300: Crises in Complexity, Opportunities in Design

August 31, 2013August 31, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 971 Viewsarchitecture, blogging, complexity, design, design for emergence, developmental design, developmental evaluation, emergence, Globe and Mail, Hannah Montana, maker culture, making-meaning, media, Miley Cyrus, Monocle, MTV Music Video Awards, music, Nautilus Magazine, newspapers, policy, Robin Thicke, science, social media, The Alpine Review, Vi Hart, weak signals, wicked problem

In 2009 Censemaking was launched as a platform to explore issues in complexity and ways we can make sense of

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Kindness Confusion in Collaboration and Co-creation

August 26, 2013August 26, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 829 ViewsBasadur profile, behavioural science, co-creation, co-work, collaboration, complexity, contemplative inquiry, cooperation, evolution, evolutionary psychology, kindness, leadership, Min Basadur, Mindful Magazine, mindfulness, personality, psychology, psychometric assessment, social innovation, Susan Cain, TED, wicked problems, work

An emerging look at evolutionary behaviour is suggesting that we are better suited for survival by working together than in competition. This cooperation imperative has been called “survival of the kindness” which risks lumping affective social generosity and goodwill with effectiveness and desirability and, in doing so, risks the entire enterprise of collaboration-based efforts.

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Systems Innovation | Geoff Mulgan and Charlie Leadbeater | January 2013 | Nesta

August 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 834 Views

A terrific synopsis of a recent paper authored by social innovation leaders Charlie Leadbeater and Geoff Mulgan from NESTA in

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No Contest: The Cost of Crowd-based Social Innovation

August 23, 2013August 23, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 936 Views99u, behaviour change, contests, crowdsourcing, design, futurists, ideas, implementation, innovation, Kevin Starr, prize, Scott Belsky, Seth Godin, social innovation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, systems thinking, Thomas Frey, wisdom of crowds

Contests are seen by many in the social sector as a way to engage audiences and generate new thinking about

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Disrupted Time: Review of Present Shock

August 18, 2013August 19, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 823 ViewsAlbert Einstein, book review, books, Boston, complexity, contemplative inquiry, Douglas Rushkoff, Egypt, emergence, foresight, fractal, journalism, mindfulness, narrative, Present Shock, psychodynamic theory, sensemaking, simplicity, singularity, systems thinking, time

Most simply, ‘present shock’ is the human response to living in a world that’s always on real time and simultaneous.

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Developmental Design and The Innovator’s Mindset

August 16, 2013August 16, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 1693 Viewsadaptation, Android, anthropology, Apple, attractor, Blackberry, complexity, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, Globe and Mail, Google, innovation, Instagram, iPad, iPhone, iPod, leadership, mobile phones, multimedia, observation, photography, resilience, Samsung, Steve Jobs, strategy, systems thinking, technology, video, Vine

Blackberry, once the ‘must have’ device is no longer so and may no longer even exist. Looking back on how

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Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead

August 16, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 1126 Views

Interesting to see that one of the most innovative companies that is responsible for so many of the most powerful

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Design Thinking, Design Making

August 13, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 1293 ViewsAlvar Aalto, Artek, business, complexity, craft, design, Design Observer, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, Dieter Rams, education, empathy, evaluation, Finland, good design, innovation, maker culture, military, principles for good design, quality, Roger Martin, systems thinking, US Army

Designing and thinking
Critics of design thinking suggest that it forgets making while advocates suggest that it extends itself beyond the traditional constraints of design’s focus on the brief. What separates the two is still the implications associated with making something and the question: can we be good designer thinkers without being design makers? This post looks at the relationship between design thinking and making.

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