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Change and Trust

February 7, 2020February 7, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1345 Views behaviour change, behavioural science, community psychology, design, habit, minimum viable product, neuroscience, psychology, social change, social innovation, social media, social psychology

Big change might come from small actions and the trust-building that comes from making those actions visible. Here’s how to make a big difference as one person.

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Foreseeing the Unpossible

December 2, 2016December 3, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 383 Views Brexit, Carl Jung, cognitive psychology, difference, Donald Trump, innovation, moral psychology, OCADU, politics, psychodynamic theory, psychology, racism, social psychology, social science, strategic foresight, Syrian refugees, unpossible

Change may be the only constant and, beyond wet babies, few of us welcome it. Foresight is about looking ahead

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The Disconnected Human

September 27, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 951 Views addiction, cognitive psychology, complexity, cortisol, Covent Garden Market, design, empathy, London, Louis C.K., mental health, psychology, social psychology, stress, technology

In this mini-series we look at the phenomenon of paradox and some of the prominent ones in our social world.

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Do you value (social) innovation?

March 5, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 530 Views book, Charles and Ray Eames, complexity, design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, innovation, Michael Quinn Patton, social innovation, social laboratories, social psychology, technology, Zaid Hassan

The term evaluation has at its root the term value and to evaluate innovation means to assess the value that

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One leg, two leg, three leg, more?

September 5, 2013September 5, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 357 Views anthropology, developmental design, developmental evaluation, emergence, evaluation, Facebook, feedback, relationships, Robin Dunbar, scale, scaling, shower, social innovation, social psychology, Star Trek

In Orwell’s classic Animal Farm the characters often oscillate between their evaluative assessments on the merits of two or four

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