Diversity / Complexity in Focus
As cities and regions worldwide celebrate Pride the role of diversity, understanding and unity has been brought to mind
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The more we get together
As we forge ever-greater connections online to each other and the world of ideas the thinking was that we would
Read moreSocial Insularity and the Not-So-Wide World Web
The Internet holds promise of connecting people together in diverse celebration of knowledge. This dream hasn’t been realized and may not be unless we transform our technological networking tools with our psycho-social tools.
Read moreComplexity is to Difference as Simplicity is to…?
In John Maeda’s 5th Law of Simplicity, he states that simplicity and complexity need each other. While true, the challenge that more complexity adds is evident in that there is simply more complexity. Another look at the relationship between simplicity and complexity.
Read moreSocial Sense-making
We learn more from teaching than being taught and from interacting than working alone. So why are our sense-making approaches always posed towards individual learning? This post argues for the need to bring the social back into play.
Read moreCohesion vs. Diversity
Systems function well at the ‘edge of chaos’. In social systems that means balancing diversity with cohesion, but there are aspects to both that are troubling and may be highly incompatible. Can we have both or do we have to sacrifice one for the other?
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