Continuing our transforming transformation work Humantific has created an OPEN Innovation Consortium consisting of stakeholders, experts and organizations interested in the subject of open innovation including its past, present and future as well as the rapidly changing implications for business and society. Unlike ten years ago, today it is more broadly understood that innovation involves a lot more than technology. Innovation also involves making sense of and orchestrating human behavior. With tremendous interest in open source systems what are the implications for organizations and societies seeking to create innovative cultures? Apart from the marketplace hype what is the state of open source innovation today? What are some of its complexities and complications? Can 21st century open source innovation tools be created? Do they already exist somewhere? These are among the many questions being rapidly explored and digested within the OPEN Innovation Consortium.
Questions: send an email to inquire (at) openinnovationconsortium (dot).org
SenseMaker Dialogs is a new speaker series focused on the rapidly changing hybrid activity of SenseMaking in the 21st century.
Organized by the Humantific team in New York, SenseMaker Dialogs will celebrate and share views into the revolutionary wave in sensemaking that is underway in our increasingly complicated world.
Leading SenseMakers today are already involved in much more than data and information visualization. SenseMakers have become integral to many forms of change making occurring around the world.
The boundaries of what sensemaking is and what sensemakers do is in a state of rapid transformation like never before. SenseMaker Dialogs will explore these multi-dimensional shifts.
Each talk will feature two thought leaders engaged in exploring the boundaries of sensemaking (speaker list TBD).
The first SenseMaker Dialogs session is tentatively scheduled for mid-July in New York. These will be bi-monthly mid-week evening sessions from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Space will be limited.
Online registration will be opening soon. If you would like to get on the early registration list, send an email to programs (at) humantific (dot) com with “SenseMaker Dialogs” as the subject.
Also see Social SenseMaking
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=63415711568
Is the SenseMaker Dialogs speaker series coming to your city soon?
SenseMaker Dialogs / Global is presently looking for additional event co-hosts in the following cities: Barcelona, Beijing, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Milan, Mumbai, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, Zurich. If your company is interested in co-hosting a SenseMaker Dialogs event in collaboration with Humantific send an email inquiry to programs (at) humantific (dot) com with “Co-Host Inquiry” as the subject.
We launched the Social SenseMaking Network on Facebook in February of 2009.
What is Social SenseMaking?
Social SenseMaking is the design, science and art of making complex social issues understandable and engaging to humans for the specific purpose of helping to drive social change.
Increasingly social change leaders recognize that before societal change happens new understanding must happen, new thinking must happen. Social SenseMakers have become integral to many forms of ChangeMaking transformation occurring around the world.
Social SenseMaking Symposium
The first Social SenseMaking Symposium is being organized by Humantific and will held in April in New York City. Volunteers to host Social SenseMaking Symposia in other cities are welcome.
Social SenseMaking Network
If you would like to become part of the Social SenseMaking Network feel free to join our Facebook group.
We launched the Transforming Transformation Discussion Forum in August 2007 on Google Groups. In June of 2010 the group moved to better functioning LinkedIn. Transforming Transformation is focused on exploring emerging issues and developments in (Design 3.0) organizational and (Design 4.0) societal transformation, adaptable innovation enabling, and the future of human-centered innovation.
We welcome participants from all fields of knowledge who are interested in this subject and or already working in the realm of transformation.
We particularly welcome discussion related to what happens when design tools and knowledge are combined with knowledge and tools from other disciplines with the goal of creating a new breed of human-centered transformation capabilities. The list is called Transforming Transformation because we believe it is likely that new forms of transformation are emerging as disciplines collaborate and combine knowledge, skills and tools like never before in history. Today organizational transformation and social transformation are being transformed and this is the focus of this discussion forum.
You can join the group here on LinkedIn.
Transforming Transformation is a NextD Futures Project Initiative.
We launched NextDesign Leadership Institute in 2002 as an experiment in innovation acceleration. At the time we saw considerable forward motion at the leading edges of practice that were not reflected in design education and we were concerned. We wondered if it might be possible for a small team of practicing designers to help speed the understanding of and adaptation to the radical events unfolding at the leading edge of the marketplace, that are impacting design’s role in innovation leadership. We optimistically guessed that it might be possible and if it wasn’t, finding out seemed like interesting research!
In the years since we have done a lot of community based research that we have shared with our community as well as interested other communities. It has been quite astonishing to see the huge rise of interest around the world in design thinking and thinking about design in new ways, in the broadest sense possible. Today NextD creates lenses to understand design in the 21st century.
For anyone who might not know, we began talking about, writing about, visually modeling and presenting Design 3.0 in 2005 after numerous thought leadership conversations and considerable synthesis. In March 2009 NextD presented Design 4.0 for the first time at the EXPOSED 09 Conference at Arizona State University School of Design. The Design 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 framework is process not content focused. It’s purpose is to provide a meaningful, useful lens that can be utilized at the table-top level by government, educational and business leaders seeking to better understand and make decisions around that big fuzzy word “design” related to their countries, regions, communities, institutions, businesses, etc.
On the now somewhat antiquated NextD archive site you can find the thirty conversations that informed the creation of the NextD Complexity Scale. Each month thousands of documents are downloaded from the archive site by readers in forty+ countries. NextD Journal conversations have become popular discussion tools in many graduate programs.
Until the new site is up see the NextD / ReReThinking Design page on Facebook.
The ReReThinking Design Education Project
In April of 2009 we launched The ReReThinking Design Education Project on Ning. Fifty participants (many design educators) from nineteen countries rapidly signed up. Educators expressed significant interest in having a frank conversation about design education in a quiet corner of the universe.
http://rerethinkingdesign.ning.com/
A closed group will engage in dialogue for 5 months (April-August) focused on the subject of ReReThinking Design Education.
Participating in The ReReThinking Design Education Group
Aarhus School of Architecture
Arizona State University
California College of Art
Chen Hugentobler Associates
Communication Research Institute
Delft University of Technology
Domus Academy
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Harvard University
Herron School of Art and Design
Humantific
Istituto Europeo di Design
Innovation Leadership Forum
ITSBIC, Institute of Technology, Sligo
Istanbul Technical University
National Institute of Design (India)
Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences
NextDesign Leadership Institute
Pratt Institute
University of Art and Design Helsinki
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
University of Baltimore
University of Barcelona
University of North Texas
University of Manitoba
University of Montreal
University of Sydney
University of Technology Eindhoven
University of Western Sydney
(This summer session closed on September 1, 2009)
If you would like to sign up to be among the next group of fifty participants send an email to: transformation (at) nextd (dot) org with ReReThinking Design Education Project as the subject.
