Key readings and resources

A work in progress

This page is a work in progress, a faint shadow, a windblown piece of gauze. Which is to say, it isn’t done. We will add more here as the course progresses.

Design for social innovation

Ezio Manzini, Design when everybody designs: an introduction to design for social innovation. (book)

Ezio Manzini, Design when everybody designs. Lecture at the MICA Social Design school. (video)

Social systems, communities and organizations as systems, emergence

• Peter Block, Community: the structure of belonging. (book)
• Fritjof Capra, A systems view of life: a unifying vision. (book)
• Capra, A systems view of life. (video)
• Peter Block, Civic engagement. (pdf)
• Marc Rettig, Notes on emergence. (Medium article)

How systems shift

more to come

How people shift

more to come

Social practices and practice-oriented design

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Dialogue, dialogue facilitation, working conversationally

more to come

Collective creativity

more to come

System-scale approaches

more to come

Personal becoming: growing in your stance as a catalyst

more to come