Peter Limberg joined to host the September Design with Dialogue with a conversation and workshop on Wisdom, Status, and Power Literacy. Peter writes about the meaning of contemporary and postmodern culture in a range of punchy pieces on his Substack Less Foolish, and in previous work on Medium and Youtube (now also Less Foolish). As […]
Category: Masters Workshop
Making a Meaningful Living (Embodied mapping)
Exploring your own future of work Stephen Sillett presented the July 18th workshop to explore the meaning of work through the Map of Meaningful Life. The purpose and meaning of work is an ongoing question and inquiry that is constantly in our experience in a postmodern society. When the purposes of work have changed, the […]
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, […]
Empowering Civic Dialogue with Aleco Christakis
Design with Dialogue hosted Alexander “Aleco” Christakis and Maria Kakoulaki for a public workshop on the renewal of civic engagement through place-based dialogues. Aleco, author of “How People Harness their Collective Wisdom” (with Kenneth Bausch, 2006) was in Toronto as one of the keynote speakers at RSD5 Relating Systems Thinking and Design and their availability Aleco and Maria shared their work […]
Liberating Structures for Systemic Change
So, ” how DO you change the culture around here?” July’s DwD brought Liz Rykert of Meta Strategies together with the DwD community for an exploration of Liberating Structures, a powerful set of 33 self-organizing group engagement and process change methods. The goal of the session was for all participants to learn and acquire initial experience in […]