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Why “UnConferences” Disappoint
After attending many formally and informally structured events framed as “design thinking” sessions branded as conferences, workshops, meetings and unconferences we have observed several dialogue patterns that are relatively consistent. Many informal design thinking unconference-like events seem to reflect the … Continue reading
Design Thinking Tops 11,000 Readers
This week Humantific’s Design Thinking Made Visible Project topped 11,000 readers. Published on ISSUU as part of Humantific’s virtual book series this project book provides a glimpse into our ongoing Integrative Thinking Research Initiative underway for ten years. The book provides … Continue reading
ReReThinking the Mousetrap
The subject of many applied creativity workshop exercises since 1950 and still going strong, the rethinking of the mousetrap is a classic Design 2.0 challenge. Shown here is the The OneDown Mousetrap! by Aakash Dewan of DSK ISD International School of … Continue reading
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Humantific at Copenhagen B School
In Denmark last week CoFounder GK VanPatter met with a group of faculty members at the Copenhagen Business School to discuss Design Thinking, Integrative Thinking, Design Futures, SenseMaking and ChangeMaking. Humantific is in collaborative conversations with a forward thinking faculty … Continue reading
Creative Minds ‘Mimic Schizophrenia’
Seen on BBC News: Creative minds ‘mimic schizophrenia’. Associate Professor Fredrik Ullen believes Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought pathways of highly creative people and those with schizophrenia. “[Professor Ullen] looked at the brain’s dopamine (D2) receptor genes … Continue reading
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Tax Rate Imbalance Visualized
MoveOn.Org is now among many change advocacy organizations tapping into the power of Visual Social SenseMaking.
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A Century Apart in NY Times
The just published report A Century Apart was referenced by David Brooks in the New York Times today. The article entitled The Limits of Policy makes use of the social sensemaking contained in the A Century Apart report.
Making Sense of Complexity
Appearing today in the New York Times: Making Sense of Complexity “Look at the military’s PowerPoint slide of the Afghanistan war, a labyrinth of cross-thatching lines and arrows swirling around words like INSURGENTS and COALITION CAPACITY & PRIORITIES. “When we … Continue reading
Different Skills for Different Scales
Presented by NextD CoFounders GK VanPatter and Elizabeth Pastor at numerous conferences around the world, the NextD Complexity Scale continues to generate interest and considerable thoughtful dialogue on many blogs and discussion lists. One of its central ideas, not always popular … Continue reading
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Quantum Information?
Physicist Erik Verlinde at the the University of Amsterdam recently put forward the idea that gravity is essentially a phenomenon of information. “One of the hottest new ideas in physics is that gravity is an emergent phenomena; that it somehow arises … Continue reading
Playing with Baby?
If anyone knows who created the “Playing with Baby” series of comical diagrams please let us know. We have seen the series, which seems to contain 28 “cartoons”, making the rounds but have never seen the design credit. We would … Continue reading
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Creating CLEAR Instructions 5 Tips
New research findings supporting longstanding Visual SenseMaking practices: Recently published in Scientific American MIND: A Recipe for Motivation: Easy to Read, Easy to Do “Psychologists are very interested in the complex interplay of effort, motivation and cognitive crunching—the ease with … Continue reading
Visualization Harvard Business Review
We are delighted to see Scott Berinato of Harvard Business Review catching onto and up to the Visual SenseMaking revolution underway that includes significant advances in data visualization. This wave is occurring in parallel with the increasingly open sources of … Continue reading
The Hidden Brain
In his new book The Hidden Brain, science writer Shankar Vedantam explains his perspective on what he describes as our brains two modes: conscious and unconscious, pilot and autopilot. Are you constantly switching back and forth between the two? “Most … Continue reading
Mapping United States Recession
Another example of Social SenseMaking we saw this Recession Map by created by Latoya Egwuuekwe and liked it alot.
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