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300: Crises in Complexity, Opportunities in Design

August 31, 2013August 31, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 228 Views architecture, blogging, complexity, design, design for emergence, developmental design, developmental evaluation, emergence, Globe and Mail, Hannah Montana, maker culture, making-meaning, media, Miley Cyrus, Monocle, MTV Music Video Awards, music, Nautilus Magazine, newspapers, policy, Robin Thicke, science, social media, The Alpine Review, Vi Hart, weak signals, wicked problem

In 2009 Censemaking was launched as a platform to explore issues in complexity and ways we can make sense of

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A Flood of Complexity

July 9, 2013July 9, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 174 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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When Change Potential is Embedded in Bigger Systems

March 13, 2010May 25, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 184 Views Barack Obama, behaviour change, complexity, ecological model, embedded systems, empowerment, evaluation, heath promotion, lock-in, motivation, policy, politics, psychology, structure, systems thinking

Our ability to change can be tied to the degree of embeddedness we have within larger systems and how tight the fit between the layers or levels are. Barack Obama’s electoral success and governance frustrations are used to illustrate.

If systems change is overwhelming you, consider joining me and @weaverworks as we talk about the power of one -- pr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 8 hours ago
"A person is but the product of their thoughts. What they think, they become." —Mahatma Gandhi 5 days ago
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view." - Atticus Finch, protagoni… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 week ago
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." —Robert Louis Stevenson. A subtlely brilliant… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 week ago
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at." —Bruce Lee 1 week ago

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