What do you consider a community? Not as a definition, but in your experience? In what groups has emerged the felt experience of a communitas as shared social system wrapped around a purpose or activity? We offer to explore the nature of community through dialogue and visual sensemaking in the traditionally offbeat August DwD, with […]
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Design, innovation outcomes
Drawing the Unspeakable: Sketching The System
Words often fall short in making sense of the complex and wicked problems of the world, especially when we need to collaborate and make sense of complexity across language and lived experiences. Live sketching helps us make sense of complex messes together. We pay attention to pictures and images differently than we listen to words, […]
The Diamond Star Personal Foresight Workshop
2020 is the year of the future, the date and year for which so many future scenarios were written, especially in the early years of the new futures programs, 2009-2012. While no different in terms of time passing, 2020 is a branded year, one that we’ve been forecasting for the past five decades. Now that […]
Disrupting the Business Model of War
Can we Raise Awareness Toward Disrupting the Business Model of War? If we become aware of the interconnected systems and interests of political & planetary oppression, we can publicly speak to these issues, and disrupt their functions. We hold that the only truly sustainable world is flourishing – which is present when people, societies and […]
Breaking the Business Model of War – A Peace Workshop
This year, September 21-22 OCAD University hosts the #NoWar2018 conference, the annual international peace conference held by World Beyond War. We are proposing a workshop and possibly a panel or talk to share the workshop’s outcomes at this event. Last year at this time DwD held a track of dialogue events toward the recovery of […]