Design Thinking

Melioration, Anthropocene, Actor-Network Theory, Hybrids/Cyborgs, Regeneration

This is a discussion thinking about what some concepts from the discipline of Science, Technology, and Society can do for us in our thinking.

Melioration/Regeneration and Multiple Capitals: Thinking of the Capitals — Starting with Deficits

In the multiple capitals framework, it is possible to start with things we experience today. For instance, say there are clearly defined social deficits in…

Well Being and Multiple Capitals — an Index

I had previously thought about the convertibility of the different kinds of capitals, and had thought that they ought not to inter-convert into each other, and certainly not for economic capital.

Futures, Change Management, and Grief: Corporate Contexts

At first glance, it might seem strange to see the three concepts placed together in a sentence. Hear me out. I would argue that all three things are really intimately connected, and the better we deal with grief and change, the…

Sustainable, Circularity, Regeneration, Melioration

I thought I should take stock a bit and think about the terms that I’ve been using or referring to. I want to introduce the term, as what I’m trying to get at. I felt even, “regeneration” fell short. Melioration carries with it the idea of…

Futures, Systems, Design Thinkings X Communities and Organisations — Foundations

I had previously written about how the three thinkings come together, and what that might mean. I wrote how our individual actions, combined in communities might nudge politics in a different…

Accounting for Multiple Capitals

What would it look like to be in a society where financial/economic capital is just one kind of capital alongside others?

For starters, we face the issue of measurement. There are things that we can measure, and there are things that we would…

Futures X Systems X Design — Regeneration

Regeneration is a broad, messy concept — it’s got not a lot of definition at this moment. It does have many linkages with the concept of multiple capitals — they are not the same thing, but they seem to be using a common set of ideas.

Futures X Systems X Design — Growth

Growth is something we care about. Usually we are about economic growth the most, because that is the thing that is tangible or at least, made familiar to all of us.

Futures X Systems X Design — Governance

The issue of governance is a bigger question than about the structure and processes of government. This is not just about governmental processes, but about how people take care of each other, balancing between individual liberties and obligations, against…