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Seasons and the Sun: Seeing and Experiencing Change

June 25, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 606 Views Calgary, china, complexity, covid-19, nature, performance, psychology, religion, ritual, stonehenge, strategy, time, United Kingdom, United States

Thinking in ‘seasons’ allows us to see systems at play that are disguised in the every day. To every thing

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Design / Time

July 11, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 646 Views architecture, Calgary, Calgary Flames, Canada, design, design charrette, design thinking, Finland, Helsinki, innovation, Italy, rapid prototyping, Rome, Saddledome, social innovation, sustainable development, Toronto

Design’s relationship with space is complex and well documented in the literature on architecture, interior design, and product innovation. The

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A Flood of Complexity

July 9, 2013July 9, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 453 Views Calgary, city life, complexity, emergence, environment, flood, foresight methods, infrastructure, New York City, policy, public policy, rainfall, rats, Rolling Stone, storms, strategic foresight, systems thinking, Toronto, transit, urbanism, weather

Yesterday Toronto was hit with a massive rainstorm that dumped more than 120mm of rain on parts of the city

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The Lies Told By Innovation

May 11, 2011 Cameron D. Norman 348 Views Calgary, environment, innovation, systems thinking, Toronto

If the forest and trees are part of the natural environment, then we need to consider them both at the same time — literally and metaphorically — in the systems we work in and do so with intent (design) otherwise we will continue to perpetuate the lies that innovation allows us to tell ourselves so well.