Maybe We Shouldn’t Design for Resilience
Resilience is about ‘bouncing back’ and getting through challenges, but is it the right model to be considered when “back”
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Design-Driven Evaluation and System Change
Our designs drive systems change as much as anything and feedback drives good design. Feedback comes from evaluation so it
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Practice Amid Disruption
What regular practice does is reduce the cost of failure and these costs are different in times of disruption. Innovation
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Plastic Language and Its Effects
Plastic language is all about using words in meaningless ways and that creates meaningless impact, too.
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Knowing the Race Your Running
To run a long-haul race with no visible end means to care for yourself and know that is the race you are running.
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An Age of Creation
Creativity can come from destruction. There are ways to think about this can can turn the down into something positive.
Read moreUnpossible
‘Post-truth’ was named the Oxford Dictionary word of the year. No fitting word reflects the strangeness of 2016 with the
Read moreLost together
Doing new things to create social value means going into the great unknown, yet our fear of being lost need
Read moreThe New Zombie
Information is everywhere (and if you live in cities, people might be everywhere, too) and yet the volume of information we see is overwhelmed by what we do not see. Zombies are among us like information and because of that information might be less attuned to what is going on around them. This has enormous consequences and most of it is not good.
Read moreShaking the System of Knowledge Translation and Journalism
Leveraging systems change comes when you are willing to examine the system itself, not just the component parts. News media
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