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Foreseeing the Unpossible

December 2, 2016December 3, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 196 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 494 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 259 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 160 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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