Education and learning
Learning takes our exposure to new things and transforms our thoughts and actions. How we do this is – and whether its done well — is where design comes in. Our learning is framed by where we are and where we want to go. The volume of content available to people puts attention at a …
The famous Dutch cycling culture didn’t always exist; it was designed. A look at how this came to pass can help us to understand what it means to transform culture and keep it healthy. There are lessons to be learned whether you’re building a bike culture or transforming your organization. If you think of life …
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The confusion between whether something is used to teach or to guide underlies much of the dissatisfaction with the use of models to inform the way we work, learn, and behave. Let’s talk about systems and models — but stick with me, this is a practical and not just academic matter. I’ll start with a …
It’s easy to say a lesson was learned and far more difficult to show it to be true. What can we do to best to learn from what’s happened to us and not allow often difficult, painful, hard-fought lessons to go unlearned? When the student is ready, the teacher will appear Unknown A lesson is …
The informal conversations we have with friends and colleagues can have enormous value if we’re willing to recognize it. The COVID-19 pandemic gave me a gift that has produced an almost incalculable return on my creativity. Prior to the first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020 most of my engagements with friends and colleagues were episodic. …
The autumn tends to be a time when many organizations hold conferences and this year is no different. What is different is that we are now in hybrid modes and questions remain about what we’ve learned about learning in a pandemic-affected world. Looking at my calendar I see a number of large events coming up …
Conference Season Here Again: What Have We Learned? Read More »
To know is to do. This is an unspoken assumption behind much of what is written about change. If we know the risks, know the opportunities, have ideas about what to do, we will make change happen. But this isn’t true — at least, in its entirety. The latest Censemaking Innovation Podcast continues to look …
Learning and doing are important, however without sensing we are practicing and growing in the dark. Praxis is a word that describes the interplay between learning through knowledge and action working together. The more we do, the more we know and the more we know, the more we can do. Praxis is vital to innovation …
Design is far too important not to be shared and made as accessible as possible as our future literally depends on it. Design is not a luxury. Design is what will shape our world to come. Our ‘next’ will be designed by us and those design choices will shape who benefits, how, and what influence …
Learning is at the heart of innovation and works best when evaluation is part of the process to spot what’s actually learned. Learning is a critical part of innovation and evaluation is about understanding its role. There are many definitions of innovation out there. After years of experience, observation, and study I’ve found them lacking …
