Making Sense of Cross-Disciplinary Innovation Now!
Humantific is among the contributors to a new, soon to be published book entitled The Future of Innovation organized and edited by Bettina Von Stamm and Anna Trifilova.
If you would like to order a copy of this book upon publication send an email to programs (at) humantific (dot) com.
Humantific Co-Founder, GK VanPatter will give a free open to the public talk on SenseMaking for ChangeMaking in Malmö, Sweden on November 12, as part of a new speaker series being organized by the MEDEA Societal Entrepreneurship Program at Malmö University.
“MEDEA Collaborative Media Initiative is a center for new media research and development at Malmö University, Sweden. Medea is built around co-production with actors outside academia – companies, organizations, artists, citizens, etc. A special focus is put on the development of new creative practices and on new public spheres.”
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Elizabeth Pastor, co-founder of Humantific, will shed light on the emerging world of Visual SenseMaking at the next VizThinkNYC event, “A Glimpse into Visual SenseMaking.” In this energetic 2-hour session, you will see how Humantific applies Visual SenseMaking to real-world challenges, build a basic visual toolkit, and learn how to unpack a problem through visual modeling. Time permitting, you will have the opportunity to practice your new skills on a real-world challenge.
Date & Time:
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
6:30 PM — 8:30 PM
Location:
Liquidnet
498 Seventh Ave, 8th Floor
(bet. 36th and 37th)
New York, NY
Space is limited. Register here.
Check out a short video recap of the full-day Intro to Visual SenseMaking workshop, part of the Complexity Navigation Program.
Being published this month, Carl Jung’s long secret Red Book is billed as the “most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology.”
“This is the greatest psychic explorer of the 20th century, and this book tells the story of his inner life.”
“The [Philemon] foundation…helped pay for the translating of the book and the addition of a scholarly apparatus — a lengthy introduction and vast network of footnotes — written by a London-based historian named Sonu Shamdasani.”
According to Shamdasani: The central premise of the book… was that Jung had become disillusioned with scientific rationalism — what he called “the spirit of the times” — and over the course of many quixotic encounters with his own soul and with other inner figures, he comes to know and appreciate “the spirit of the depths,” a field that makes room for magic, coincidence and the mythological metaphors delivered by dreams.”
“It is the nuclear reactor for all his works,” Shamdasani said, noting that Jung’s more well-known concepts — including his belief that humanity shares a pool of ancient wisdom that he called the collective unconscious and the thought that personalities have both male and female components (animus and anima) — have their roots in the Red Book.”
“The Red Book is not an easy journey — it wasn’t for Jung, it wasn’t for his family, nor for Shamdasani, and neither will it be for readers. The book is bombastic, baroque and like so much else about Carl Jung, a willful oddity, synched with an antediluvian and mystical reality.”
“The text is dense, often poetic, always strange. The art is arresting and also strange. Even today, its publication feels risky, like an exposure. But then again, it is possible Jung intended it as such. In 1959, after having left the book more or less untouched for 30 or so years, he penned a brief epilogue, acknowledging the central dilemma in considering the book’s fate. “To the superficial observer,” he wrote, “it will appear like madness.” Yet the very fact he wrote an epilogue seems to indicate that he trusted his words would someday find the right audience.”
All quotes above are from a terrific 10 page article written by Sara Corbett published recently in New York Times.
For those interested in the just published Portrait of Louisiana and the role of social sensemaking in driving social change an executive summary is now available in PDF form.
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