We are exploring a conversation on the possibilities of what we call “wise democracy” using the tools from the Wise Democracy project. With participatory exercises to guide dialogue, we explored questions of: How might we design for co-creative democratic participation? How might we invoke wisdom to facilitate power sharing? What practices might we be missing […]
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, […]
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 […]
November’s Design with Dialogue explored Interstellar Insights a newly prototyped tool and game from Tamara and Shawna Eberle of Traction Strategy. They last joined us in 2016 to share their last breaking new innovation process game Innovate or Dinosaur. OCAD U was among the first to experience – Interstellar Insights Head into deep space and […]
Who is and where is your community, that you care about? Do you have the conversations there you would like to learn from? How might you bring a practice, a clearing to open dialogues in your communities? What are the most appropriate dialogue methods to fit different contexts? How might we build working knowledge and […]