Frameworks
It's messy and disorganized in reality. Frameworks promise to bring order to it in pleasing ways. They blunt the chaos and give you buckets to categorize your observations. However, if you've ever tried to apply any frameworks, you know that they're anything but simple to implement. In the business world, frameworks are used as a crutch for making ... See more
Commoncog • Reality Without Frameworks
What is included in a narrative, what is left out and the values it embodies are determined by what cognitive scientist and linguist George Lakoff refers to as ‘frames’. These cognitive structures are shaped by our personal and collective histories and allow us to conceptualize and organize what we see (and fail to see) and how we see it. The meani... See more
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
But no one has ever started over from scratch by devising a wholly new conceptual structure, an entirely new vessel. Why? Because we cannot step outside of our own thought. We think in terms of the conceptual structure that we happen to have. Thought changes from within, step by step, in the harsh and continuous confrontation with its object: reali
... See moreFraming is decisive. At every moment, we live and operate and relate to the world from inside our framing of it, our mental model of it. Relating to the world as made up of ecosystems will result in very different outcomes than relating to the world as made up of individuals, of discrete things that can be treated distinctly.