ChangeThis :: The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design

This looks like useful for designers and systems thinking creatives.  It’s another way of thinking about the design process, and although couched in web design terms has the potential for all other design applications as well, where the  designer needs thinking tools for getting close to what the  clients need.

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Web 2.0 – “Here comes everybody” Clay Shirky

As any intelligent and eco-literate person will be aware. we are, to use an Australianism, “up sh*t creek in a barb wire canoe with a gum leaf paddle”.  The enormity of the personal and social challenges we are facing in order to even acknowledge the environmental issues, let alone dealing with them adequately are enormous.
This [...]

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All we have to do is reverse things, and its easy

This is such a simple narrative, a YouTube video with a powerful message which is at the same time a very effective graphical metaphor.
Send it on to the people you know that will appreciate it or need it, and thanks to Roland who passed the KarmaTube link to Lost Generation onto me.
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“Problems are to reality what atoms are to tables”

System Thinking Guru turns 90.
Russell Ackoff, systems thinking legend is still going strong at 90. This Ackoff Centre blog contains some great links, videos, articles and commentary.
I love the way Ackoff looks at problems and solutions in our dominant linear thinking world. Where solving a problem creates another problem and solving that causes another…. until [...]

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