The Agricultural Battleground
Our age demands a paradigm shift, which can be characterized in a number of different ways – sustainability, green, the 99%, #occupy, human rights, human inequality, social innovation (…and the list goes on). These social expressions, in turn, create battlegrounds for the “future” in the form of industries, systems, and paradigms that must be altered...
Body-Mind Integration as Change Methodology
1. Theory-in Use: Words, Seated Here is the starting point (as far as we can define one when looking at wholes): The way in which we do things (in life, in organizations, at work…) rests on assumptions, ideas, theories, and worldviews. As a supporting theoretical perspective on this stance, I have found Argyris/Schoen’s distinctions between...
Nature’s Knack
I hadn’t come across the ideas of biomimicry before a year ago, until I attended a forum at Bucknell University with Neri Oxman - part material ecologist part biomimic. She got me thinking about design and how we can engineer infrastructure to be mutually beneficial, all while using techniques pioneered by nature. If you haven’t...
Why the Filter Bubble is So Pernicious
Recently there has been much buzz around “The Filter Bubble,” the idea proposed by Eli Pariser in a book of the same name, that in an effort to tailor our experiences on the web to suit us, Google and Facebook, and all the sites that define our experience with the web, are hiding things from...
Internet Rising
INTERNET RISING is a digi-documentary investigating the evolving relationships between the Internet and collective consciousness of humanity. It provokes many questions about ancient and modern paradoxes of life, its pleasures and pains… and the gray area contrasts in between – but most of all it is meant to be an inspiring conversation starter. INTERNET RISING...
Remarkable group publications
Examples of group blogs and other publications, to acknowledge, to learn from and to build upon, next-edge style. Publication (source link) why remarkable Beams and Struts 28 deep thinkers conducting an experiment in collective intelligence in the age of integration and synthesis. Many-to-Many A Group Weblog on Social Software by Clay Shirky, Liz Lawley, Ross...
