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AI and meaning; Duality in context and the third perspective as a design tool
Jan 20, 2023
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On framing & exploring problems; using assemblage theory to understand & design for network effects
Dec 5, 2022
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Betterment of today's education through dynamic financialization? Virtual Chalet discussion
Nov 16, 2022
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Being foxes and tigers: design, philosophy, economics, and politics
Oct 31, 2022
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30 August 2022 – Design & philosophy: a closure and next steps
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| 1/20/23 |  AI and meaning; Duality in context and the third perspective as a design tool | In this session, we discuss the relationship between AI, the potential for hyper-intelligence, and meaning through abstraction. We also discuss the notions of duality and how duality with context creates useful contrast that adds meaning and generates new perspectives, which can be used as a design tool. This links to the concept of "negative space" in Semiotics, and "Early Heaven" and "Later Heaven" from ancient Chinese Ba Gua. This brings the notion of "the third perspective" and the ability to subvert expectations through the breaking of patterns. **Sorry for the sound quality** --- LINKS Here's a simple yet interesting explanation of "the third perspective" through the analysis of the narrative of the movie AVATAR in contrast to Princess Mononoke → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsNrjTfIGIE Introduction to Bayesian Thinking by Julia Galef → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpdBOUnynps Bruno Latour's The Sociology of Science → http://www.bruno-latour.fr/taxonomy/term/39.html On narrative research → https://medium.com/rettigs-notes/notes-on-narrative-research-6eca7c226891 --- JOIN US Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://www.designcriticalthinking.com/join-slack/ About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com Thanks to Matt and Daiana for sharing your thoughts! --- Artwork generated using DALLE, Prompt: “strange attractor, gravity field, beautiful landscape, digital art” | — | ||||||
| 12/5/22 |  On framing & exploring problems; using assemblage theory to understand & design for network effects | We discuss how to frame problems to explore them and the critical need for diversity (of minds, perspectives, etc) in these early design activities. We discuss why we need to bring back imagination as many organizations (and practitioners) often jump from problem definition to solution. We then touch upon the concept of "useful frictions" in digital and virtual spaces. Finally, we talk about Assemblage Theory as a way to understand coupling effects in networks and the notions of territorialization & deterritorialization through a funny thought experiment: "what if we had to design a temporary cult". --- Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://www.designcriticalthinking.com/join-slack/ About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com Thanks to Tamika for sharing your thoughts! Artwork generated using DALLE, Prompt: “a group of explorers discover a new island world full of wonders, futuristic digital art” | — | ||||||
| 11/16/22 |  Betterment of today's education through dynamic financialization? Virtual Chalet discussion | We discuss the issue of the current north American education system and its repercussions on the global financing of education, with a focus on Europe. One of our community members, Matt, shares an approach/opportunity to tackle some of it through a dynamic financialization model. This led the group to an interesting, honest, and stimulating design critique form of discussion. --- The "virtual chalet" is a recurring informal event (once every 2 weeks) for the community to take the space & time to discuss, share ideas & experiences, find support, ask questions, etc. Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://www.designcriticalthinking.com/join-slack/ About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com Thanks to Matt for sharing his thoughts! Find more about Matt 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattji Artwork generated with DALLE. Prompt: “Giant city tree, cyberpunk” | — | ||||||
| 10/31/22 | Being foxes and tigers: design, philosophy, economics, and politics | This was an unplanned and unmanaged informal discussion like we love to hold in the community. A discussion about foxes and tigers, about perceptions of the world, about philosophies of being and their underlying systems. We also discussed how "design" activities today are made for "transactional" and "value extraction" systems and how this limits their applicability (or can be detrimental) to social and political systems. Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://www.designcriticalthinking.com/join-slack/ About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com/about/ | — | ||||||
| 9/6/22 | 30 August 2022 – Design & philosophy: a closure and next steps | This is our monthly Community workshop session during which we discuss where we want the community to head. We provided closure to the topic of design & philosophy and discussed what would be the next topic to open. As often, the conversation covered a lot of different grounds. Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://www.designcriticalthinking.com/join-slack/ About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com/about/ | — | ||||||
| 9/6/22 | Design & Philosophy – The tension between pragmatism & creativity | 3rd and final round of this series of discussions. Themes for exploration: How can we link back design practice and philosophy? What are the possible pain points of doing so? And what are the benefits of such a marriage? This session: We focus on two aspects, first the importance of coming to a form of pragmatism, which one might call "pragmatic design philosophy", and second the (equal) importance of connecting to a form of abstractive and poetic conceptualization, which one might call creativity. The goal of this session is to explore this useful tension that underly many aspects of the design practice. - -- This event is the third of a series of discussions on design and philosophy, when it is relevant to link them together, how one strengthens the other (and vice-versa), what are their weaknesses, etc. Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://www.designcriticalthinking.com/join-slack/ About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com/about/ | — | ||||||
| 8/17/22 | Virtual Chalet, 16 August 2022 – The forms of power, privileges, and practical design philosophy | We discuss the different forms of power, how they influence decision, how they relate (or not) to design.We disucss how power can be reciprocal, and how it is best described in context. We also discuss the notion that platforms like Amazon & Youtube give a form of power to their users, but this power is asymmetrical because it is structurally lent, to the extent of what the platforms are willing to go. --- The "virtual chalet" is a recurring informal event (once every 2 weeks) for the community to take the space & time to discuss, share ideas & experiences, find support, ask questions, etc. Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://www.designcriticalthinking.com/join-slack/ About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com/about/ | — | ||||||
| 8/11/22 | Design & Philosophy #2 – Decision making & enacting the world as designers | How can we link back design practice and philosophy? What are the possible pain points of doing so? And what are the benefits of such a marriage? → The focus of this discussion will be on "decision-making" and "enacting the world" as designers, and the relationship between the context, the objects (physical, virtual, social) we design, and our actions. What are the philosophical & practical implications? --- This event is the second of a series of discussions on design and philosophy, when it is relevant to link them together, how one strengthens the other (and vice-versa), what are their weaknesses, etc. Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉https://www.designcriticalthinking.com/join-slack/ About the community 👉https://designcriticalthinking.com/about/ | — | ||||||
| 8/10/22 | The marriage of design & philosophy – a community discussion. | Hey, we need to discuss. No seriously. Design and philosophy seem to be two different things, right? One is about thinking, and the other about doing... or are they? How can we link back design practice and philosophy? What are the possible pain points of doing so? And what are the benefits of such a marriage? --- This event is the first of a series of discussions on design and philosophy, when it is relevant to link them together, how one strengthens the other (and vice-versa), what are their weaknesses, etc. Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://www.designcriticalthinking.com/join-slack/ About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com/about/ | — | ||||||
| 7/11/22 |  Virtual Chalet, 5 July 2022 – Philosophy, rabbit holes as attractors, identity & social dissonance | We discussed philosophy and how the process of exploring certain topics affects your understanding of them, which lead us to talk about the nature of rabbit holes, and that behind an apparent endless network of things there is a tacit structure that acts as an attractor. We discuss the relationship between our identity and our social tissue and the social dissonance that creates social media. Then we move on to the subject of how many discussions (in design) remain on surface-level things (tools, methods, etc.), and why we need to dive into the underlying concepts & models. We make some comparisons between the fact that you can't understand what causes a trend to happen by studying the trend itself (you need to side-step), like copying a certain style does not provide you with knowledge of the contextual reason for this style to exist. And many more things about decision-making, handling difficult discussions, knowing how and when to debate, and “steel manning” an opposite position. | — | ||||||
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| 6/27/22 | Virtual Chalet 21 June 2022 – Decisions, past & future, anchoring the digital in physical | In this session, we have a really interesting informal discussion, what Marc called "improv session" and Krasi called "emergent discussion". We discuss: 00:00 good enough data for decision-making. 14:42 how organisational dispositionalities can prevent innovation even when people are motivated. 31:00 Past, future. Future, past. 44:00 Anchoring the digital in physical to allow for repurposing. The "virtual chalet" is a recurring informal event (once every 2 weeks) for the community to take the space & time to discuss, share ideas & experiences, find support, ask questions, etc. Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://www.designcriticalthinking.com/join-slack/ About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com/about/ | — | ||||||
| 6/26/22 |  Déconstruisons le design systémique avec Fabrice Liut - 1ère partie | Le design systémique n'est pas une pratique nouvelle, mais prend de l'ampleur depuis quelques années comme sujet à part entière dans les communautés de designers. Cet intérêt soudain créer des attentes et donc un marcher (potentiel) pour les "vendeurs" de cours et de certificats, dont le besoin de simplification d'un sujet particulièrement complexe pousse à des raccourcis grossiers et une codification du discours, appelant à des symboliques & thèmes à la hauteur des vertus avancées: le design systémique permettrait de résoudre les problèmes complexes tels que le changement climatique. Avec Fabrice Liut nous engageons donc une discussion critique autour de l'approche, du discours, et des outils proposés: sont-ils à la hauteur de la promesse. Cette vidéo est donc la première d'une série où nous déconstruisons le design systémique. Elle fait suite de ma critique du design systémique disponible ici: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PknjncsBVcA 🌟Fabrice travail avec des leaders du design & conseil qui souhaitent avoir un impact régénératif sur les entreprises et les projets de leurs clients. | — | ||||||
| 5/18/22 | Virtual Chalet 10 May 2022 – Not confusing goals with intents #becomingbetterdesigners | The "virtual chalet" is a recurring informal event (once every 2 weeks) for the community to take the space & time to discuss, share ideas & experiences, find support, ask questions, etc. In this session, on our exploration of the theme of “becoming better designers”, we discuss "Goals" (and Jobs to be done) as a way to frame our understanding of a context, people's intents, and how to create useful & valuable solutions for them. Goals are utilitarian but tend to be confused with intents, and might hide the importance of the journey through discovery as tokens of apparent clarity. We also discuss how sense-making practices could enhance the process of coming to a job, not by relying on one individual's perspective. 🌟 Checkout our island map on Miro → https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOMzFFoY=/?share_link_id=970241385650 Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://join.designcriticalthinking.com About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com | — | ||||||
| 4/30/22 | Virtual Chalet 26 April 2022 – Going beyond success and failure #becomingbetterdesigners | The "virtual chalet" is a recurring informal event (once every 2 weeks) for the community to take the space & time to discuss, share ideas & experiences, find support, ask questions, etc. In this session, we continue our exploration of the theme of becoming better designers through the keyword "Failure", and how it conditions our understanding of success (and vice-versa): i.e. a short-term success can be a long-term failure. Moreover, preparing for failure means measuring for it and indirectly creating a fail-safe space, enabling us to discover other opportunities. Therefore, failure is not the goal, it is a means to move beyond an otherwise limiting dichotomy. 🌟 Checkout our island map on Miro → https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOMzFFoY=/?share_link_id=110023631018 Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://join.designcriticalthinking.com About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com | — | ||||||
| 4/14/22 | Virtual Chalet, 12 April 2022 – Being the expert that knows he doesn't know #becomingbetterdesigners | The "virtual chalet" is a recurring informal event (once every 2 weeks) for the community to take the space & time to discuss, share ideas & experiences, find support, ask questions, etc. We continue our journey in exploring the theme of becoming better designers, and the role of designers & design in society, using a keyword as a medium for conversations. This week we're at letter "E", exploring the concept of "Expertise" from various perspectives. We used the island template, a (work in progress) collaborative mapping method that uses topography as a categorisation metaphor to help make sense of a context. Find out more about the island here → https://explorer.designcriticalthinking.com/ Discover what we mapped out in full detail here → https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOMzFFoY=/?share_link_id=481680795197 Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://join.designcriticalthinking.com About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com | — | ||||||
| 4/14/22 | Chalet Virtuel 31 Mars 2022 – Perfectionnisme, pensée systémique, et économie de la connaissance | Ceci est la version francophone de nos sessions informel « Virtual Chalet ». Ces rencontres récurrentes (une fois toutes les 2 semaines) existent afin que la communauté Design & Critical Thinking (D&CT) prenne le temps et l'espace pour discuter, faire du sense, partager des idées et des expériences, trouver du soutien, poser des questions, etc. Cette semaine nous discutons de comment "sauter le pas" en tant que créateur de contenu et du perfectionnisme, de pensée systémique (systems thinking) et de design, et de l'économie des connaissances liés aux design. Participez au prochains évènements 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Rejoignez la communauté (en anglais & français) sur Slack 👉 https://join.designcriticalthinking.com A propos de la communauté 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com | — | ||||||
| 4/13/22 | Virtual Chalet, 29 March 2022 - Using data to make decisions #becomingbetterdesigners | The "virtual chalet" is a recurring informal event (once every 2 weeks) for the community to take the space & time to discuss, share ideas & experiences, find support, ask questions, etc. In this session, we continue our exploration of the theme of becoming better designers through the keyword "data", and what it means (or not) to be "data-driven". We clarified the different kinds of data (explicit, implicit, qualitative, quantitative) and the importance of context to make sense of them. We also discussed the ethics of using data, how they are collected, and to what end. Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://join.designcriticalthinking.com About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com | — | ||||||
| 2/19/22 | Legal design, blockchain, et gouvernance par le design | Chalet Virtuel 17 février 2022 – Ceci est la version francophone de nos sessions informel « Virtual Chalet ». Ces rencontres récurrentes (une fois toutes les 2 semaines) existent afin que la communauté Design & Critical Thinking (D&CT) prenne le temps et l'espace pour discuter, faire du sense, partager des idées et des expériences, trouver du soutien, poser des questions, etc. Cette semaine nous discutons legal design et approcher le design dans le monde juridique, les problèmes et opportunités de la blockchain, et approcher l’humain et la gouvernance pour permettre la collaboration et la distribution de la prise de décision. Participez au prochains évènements 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Rejoignez la communauté (en anglais & français) sur Slack 👉 https://join.designcriticalthinking.com À propos de la communauté 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com —————— 🔗 Liens partagés pendant la session 👇 Le Legal design: → https://law.stanford.edu/organizations/pages/legal-design-lab/ → https://lawbydesign.co/legal-design/ → https://uxdesign.cc/legal-design-explained-e43129710cd9 Le Cynefin framework → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework La Total Experience: → https://www.walkme.com/glossary/total-experience/ → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Experience —————— 👀 Plus sur nos participants 👇 Christophe Coppin → https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophe-coppin-consulting/ → https://www.hubnot.io Naji Bouchiba → https://www.linkedin.com/in/najibouchiba/ → https://seweloafrica.com Céline Grosjean → https://www.linkedin.com/in/celinegrosjean/ → https://www.celinegrosjean.com | — | ||||||
| 2/18/22 | Actionable, knowledge, emotions, affordance #becomingbetterdesigners | Virtual Chalet, 15 February 2022 – The "virtual chalet" is a recurring informal event (once every 2 weeks) for the community to take the space & time to discuss, share ideas & experiences, find support, ask questions, etc. In this session, we used a keyword as a catalyst to approach the broader topic of the role of designers in society, and the question “how could we become better designers?” which will be a running theme for the coming sessions & workshops. You can view our Miro board with the captured items here → https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOLuUfQU=/?invite_link_id=251603547538 Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://join.designcriticalthinking.com About the community 👉 https://designcriticalthinking.com | — | ||||||
| 10/1/21 |  The Explorer Framework: From Problems To Ecosystems | An invitation to be explorers, not just problem-solvers We tend to see design and innovation as problem-solving spaces. This engineering and sometimes mechanistic approach is not bad in itself but brings a lot of limitations, one major being to quickly frame whatever challenge into a narrow, finite, solution. When facing uncertainty, designers, and changemakers might feel unempowered. We look for recipes and pre-packaged generalist solutions — “the answer”, that sells an illusion of certainty through the economy of speed — to help us disambiguate our very specific contexts. “Problem-solvers look for answers. Explorers look for better questions.” Exploration makes the invisible visible. This multi-layered understanding will add more potential to our portfolio of possibilities. “Problem-solvers reduce options. Explorers enable possibilities.” New challenges are invitations to become curious explorers, in a world where everything is believed to be known, predictable, ordinary. Reclaim space for curious exploration The explorer’s framework is a set of ideas for designers, innovators, changemakers, to help approach challenges and problems in ways that add layers (rather than subtract), enable possibilities (rather than reduce), diversify points of view, and enable a portfolio of strategies & actions to tackle (complex) challenges (rather than single-point solutions). Exploration is not to be opposed to conception — it is a useful tension. Exploration should be pursued as a parallel, ongoing, journey with no clear end. It is the philosophy & ethics of the curious, humble, learner. Learn more → explorer.designcriticalthinking.com designcriticalthinking.com | — | ||||||
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