Get ready for The Multiplicity. This workshop engaged participants to co-create multiple personal futures in large and small group collaboration. This social design experiment in personal foresight generated the creation of possible personal scenarios for the challenging next-future term possibilities. We started by creating a personal profile for the Low Tech Social Network. Communities listed […]
Category: Think
Thoughtful engagement, deep reflection, intellectual or academic topics
The Meta-Design of Dialogues as Inquiring Systems
About 30 participants attended the first DwD of 2012 (Jan 11). This educational session explored the relationship of systems inquiry to dialogue. Small groups facilitated their own learning to identify knowledge profiles and to design dialogic inquiries that would best address a selected area of concern. There’s a multitude of ways to conduct dialogues. Which […]
A Question of Questions
Can a powerful question change the world? Why do some questions motivate people to deeply reflect and act? The creation and sharing of a catalyzing question is a generative act, it creates a point of view. Such a true question provokes a deep response and outlook. Great questions are the inspiration of research, journalism, strategy, […]
The Toronto Star: Dialogue on Thriving in a Changing News World
DwD hosted John Cruickshank (Publisher) and Kate Collins (Product Director, Star Media Group – Digital) from The Toronto Star for a special community design workshop. This was a DwD “innovation fishbowl” that explored the future of news media in a changing media landscape. The framing of the evening was: What might the Toronto Star look […]
Transilience: Adapting urban living for a changing future
A special Design with Dialogue event was held in conjunction with the 2011 McLuhan Centenary and U of Toronto’s KMDI, as a panel and participatory workshop in which the public is invited to engage the questions: How are ecological changes moving us toward planning for urban resilience? How might we make the transition to resilience […]