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Toward Real Human Futures and Foresight

February 24, 2022February 24, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 428 Viewscovid-19, design, foresight, futures, information, politics, russia, strategic foresight, ukraine, war

At the time of this writing, Russia has just invaded Ukraine, protesters have just left a 3-week occupation of the

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Lessons Taught, Learned, Forgotten, and Ignored

January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 344 Viewsattention, cognition, complexity, complexity theory, covid-19, decision making, design, education, information, information design, information overload, learning, learning design, psychology, systems thinking, time

It’s easy to say a lesson was learned and far more difficult to show it to be true. What can

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When Strategy Solutions Are Hidden in Plain Sight

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 288 Viewsadaptive strategy, complexity, covid-19, design, innovation, principles, public health, strategy

The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects provide a perfect example of similarity and difference in strategy, outcome, and impact. Are

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The Future of Futures Work?

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 607 Viewsclimate crisis, covid-19, design, foresight, futures, innovation, speculative futures, systems thinking

While this title is ridiculous, the practice of futures work is not and is more important than ever to support

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Taking My Own Innovation Medicine (Why It Took Me 10 Years To Produce a Podcast): Part 1

September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 579 Viewscensemaking, covid-19, design, innovation, james donison, podcast, psychology

Producing a podcast in 2011 was novel; not in 2021 – although the lessons learned from 10 years of trying

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What is Sensemaking? Part 2: Practice

July 30, 2021October 15, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 1024 Viewscomplexity, covid-19, design, design thinking, diversity, innovation, learning, mindfulness, perspective, sensemaking, strategy

Sensemaking practice is social, interactive, and focused on strategies to work through what we think, know, and imagine. In our

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Design For How We See Ourselves

June 28, 2021June 29, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 990 Viewsbehaviour change, behavioural design, community, community psychology, covid-19, design, design research, identity, next, personas, psychology, systems thinking

Identity shapes design of products and services so why ignore it when we are designing for humans lives? Who we

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Entangled Knots and Complexity

April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 978 Viewscomplexity, complexity theory, covid-19, evaluation, systems thinking

The idea of entanglements is central to understanding complexity in systems and the knots that they generate The idea of

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Pasts, Presents, and Futures

March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 1041 Viewsbehaviour change, community psychology, covid-19, design, foresight, futures, healing, learning, Michael Quinn Patton, psychology, systemic design, systems thinking, teaching

Our understanding of situations are co-constructed and that means our future is, too. Shaping our future — at least one

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System Entanglements and Change

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 983 Viewsbehaviour change, complexity, covid-19, evaluation, systemic design, systems thinking

‘New beginnings’ is a phrase that only works when both words are true and the systems around them support their

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Design’s Inspiring Possibility

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Systems Thinking Practice: Starting Out

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