Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
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Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
From mythmaking to legal treaties to weaving to movement building, what knits these various examples together is their avoidance of single solutions to complex problems, instead enabling a pursuit of multiple different actions and wider systemic changes with long term, positive transformations
Anab Jain • Radical Design for a World in Crisis
YOU’VE FOUND A HIGH-LEVERAGE INTERVENTION WHEN YOU can see the long-term pattern of behavior shift qualitatively in a system: when, for example, stagnation gives way to growth, or oscillations dampen dramatically. This kind of breakthrough happens most readily when you can make alterations in the structure you’ve mapped out. You either add new elem
... See moreArt Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Given this understanding that "control" is at best an illusion and at worst a devastating violence to living systems, the question that Bateson was asking is: How does change happen? How does a family change? How does a marriage change? How does an ecosystem change? How does a culture change?
An understanding of living systems reveals that change c... See more
An understanding of living systems reveals that change c... See more
Alexander Beiner • The Bigger Picture
These approaches emerge from two different ways of seeing an organization: the prescriptive approach is based on the view that an organization can be designed and engineered like a machine, while the generative approach is based on the view that an organization is composed of living workers whose behavior necessarily emerges from their own values a
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