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Seeing the Unknown

February 11, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 443 Views 0 Comments environment, evaluation, foresight, futures, innovation, strategy, sustainability, visionary evaluation

We prepare for what we know and see. To address the challenges of the future, we need to imagine things

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Three Lessons From Summer Vacation

September 7, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 354 Views Andrew Knight, art, beauty, Brexit, complexity, design, environment, John Wenger, Mark Rothko, organizational aesthetics, organizational design, psychology, Silwood Group, sociodrama, Steven De Groot

This year I took a summer holiday — something I’ve not done in years — and was reminded what literally stepping

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A Flood of Complexity

July 9, 2013July 9, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 197 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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Complexity and the Senseless Marketing of the Future

July 16, 2012July 16, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 266 Views climate change, complex adaptive systems, complexity, environment, FastCoExist, foresight, futurists, innovation, marketing, marketing complexity, mindfulness, networks, Pareto distribution, resilience, simplicity, social networks, systems thinking

Futurists take what we know now and project into the future ideas about things will be like years from today

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The Lies Told By Innovation

May 11, 2011 Cameron D. Norman 165 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.

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Amazing Stuff: December 14th Edition

December 14, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 213 Views awesome, bottled water, creativity, environment, food, food systems, hunger, ideas, innovation, social media, Twitter

Looking for awesome things, the latest in zombie attack science, solving the food shortage using Twitter, drinking tap water instead of bottles, or how little art pictures can help stimuate new thinking? Then this issue of Amazing Stuff has something for you.

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Amazing Stuff: November 6th Edition

November 6, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 232 Views climate change, design, design thinking, eHealth, environment, H1N1, innovation, public health, visualization

From H1N1 apps for the iPhone, seeing the beauty of islands from space, the carbon footprint of pets, exploring innovation online, and visualizing the world around us using computer-assisted tools, the first week of November has offered a lot of amazing things.

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Amazing Stuff: Halloween Edition

October 31, 2009October 31, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 200 Views complexity, complexity theory, design, environment, environmental health, infectious disease, innovation, marketing, meaning, public health, social media, systems science, video

This week’s Halloween edition of Amazing stuff highlights a short video on complexity science (and organizing a children’s party), an unexpected (and amusing) link between environmental health + pornography, a map of illness, marketing and PR for the masses, and figuring out what meaning really means in the world of design.

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