Published inthe Emergent Futures Lab·16 hours agoMember-onlyCreativity and Constraints | Emergent Futures LabLet’s address a fundamental question for creativity: How does change happen such that a novel form (order, organization, process) emerges, stabilizes and then persists? Classically in the west we have answered this by one of two answers: imposition or essence expression: 1. Form is imposed from the outside 2. Form is already…Ecosystem2 min readEcosystem2 min read
Published inthe Emergent Futures Lab·1 day agoMember-onlyHow Does the New Come Into Being? | Emergent Futures LabHow does the new come into being? And what might be the parts of such a process? When we realize the fallacies of the individualistic and essentialist “ideation first” paradigms to make sense of the actualities of innovation, we look to other possibilities. …Process2 min readProcess2 min read
Published inthe Emergent Futures Lab·2 days agoMember-onlyOn Constraints, Attractors and Creativity | Emergent Futures LabIn regards to novelty, while there is an infinitely small likelihood that a system could be engaged with such that it could do “anything”- rather dynamic systems have statistical regularities — patterns that they will settle into. …Constraints2 min readConstraints2 min read
Published inthe Emergent Futures Lab·Nov 22Member-onlyThree Reasons Design Thinking Principals Are Anti-Creative | Emergent Futures LabHere are three reasons design thinking principals are anti-creative. And how you can design more creatively before using Design Thinking as a creativity tool. 1. Design Thinking Is an “Ideation First” Process You can’t think the new directly. This includes empathy, inspiration, ideate, plan, make, visions, trends — these are all rooted in the known. Because thinking relies…Creativity2 min readCreativity2 min read
Published inthe Emergent Futures Lab·Nov 21Member-onlyWhere Does Organizational Creativity Come From? | Emergent Futures LabWhere does creativity come from in organizations? Is an organization creative unto itself? Or is does organizational creativity come from the individuals that make up an organization? It is easy to make the claim that creativity is a personal property of individuals, as individuals feature so prominently in our historical…Organizational Culture2 min readOrganizational Culture2 min read
Published inthe Emergent Futures Lab·Nov 20Member-onlyProcesses are Self Governing | Emergent Futures LabFeedback is strange. It is the ability of things to condition themselves, things to self-regulate — processes to be self-governing. It allows a process that would normally run down or exceed itself to stay stable without an outside controlling force or an internal determining essence. In its simplest form it…Feedback3 min readFeedback3 min read
Published inthe Emergent Futures Lab·Nov 17Member-onlyProcess Radically Reorients Approaches to Creativity and Innovation | Emergent Futures LabUnderstanding the logic of process radically reorients approaches to creativity and innovation: “In the context of contemporary science… “nature” does not consist of basic particulars, but fields and processes… There is no bottom level of base particulars with intrinsic properties that upwardly determines everything else. Everything is process all the…Innovation2 min readInnovation2 min read
Published inthe Emergent Futures Lab·Nov 16Member-onlyWhat is Innovation? A Process… | Emergent Futures LabIdeas condemn innovation processes to failure. Ideation has significant limits for early-stage radical innovation as ideas are rooted in what is known and exists. An innovation process that yields radical innovation sheds the limitations of ideation-first models with a step-by-step approach that manufactures difference from what already exists in the…Creativity2 min readCreativity2 min read
Published inthe Emergent Futures Lab·Nov 15Member-onlyHow to Create Novel, Disruptive Innovations | Emergent Futures LabHow to create novel, disruptive innovations… A step-by-step process for innovation: Phase 1 — Engage: Pick an area of interest. Actively immerse yourself in its world(s) and systems looking at and for intra-dependency, belonging and open embedded engagement. Notice patterns, trends, and trajectories. You are staging an encounter. Phase 2…Creativity2 min readCreativity2 min read
Published inthe Emergent Futures Lab·Nov 14Member-onlyThings Are More Than Interdependent — They Are Intradependent | Emergent Futures LabThings are more than interdependent — they are Intra-dependent. Boundaries are real but they do not define the perimeter that contains something that is independent & self formed from an outside that is genuinely separate. Boundaries — whether they are cell walls, membranes like skin, national borders, or organizational identity…Creativity3 min readCreativity3 min read
