In complex settings, different practices like evaluation, co-design, systems thinking, social learning, and participatory action research often build on common foundations. This post brings together a set of recent reflections that explore these shared starting points: clarity of purpose, attention to context, relational work, and space for reflection and learning. Over the past year, many […] The post Exploring complexity: a thread through recent reflections appeared first on learningforsu...| learningforsustainability.net
By Will Allen. What does co-design for tackling complex challenges look like in practice? Co-design is a collective way of navigating complexity, taking different forms depending on context. The fo…| Integration and Implementation Insights
Politics expert, Michael Saward, unpacks how design can be used to shape democracy.| publicpolicydesign.blog.gov.uk
Education policy designers Alex Mathers and Chahat Gursingh are finding new ways to develop public services with young people.| publicpolicydesign.blog.gov.uk
Amidst an already-existing polycrisis, the world’s an even more fragile and scary place right now, largely thanks to the seizure of power in the US by wannabe fascists, and their willing enablers. We can see exactly who would have stood next to the bully in the playground.1 Is obeying in advance a kind of prefigurative dystopian experiential future? Sadly we’re all going to find out without having opted into the experiment, starting with people already marginalised by society, from trans ...| architectures by Dan Lockton
This article was originally posted in the Design Research Society’s DRSelects series, 4 December 2023 In this DRSelects, we speak with Dan Lockton, DRS Executive Board member, on his DRS Digital Library selections emphasising design tools for imagination and critical co-investigation. Hello, I’m Dan Lockton. I… Read more| architectures by Dan Lockton
