Important lessons here. Sounds like the story of my life LOL. Have been using the fields of design thinking, systems thinking and futures studies to help organizations prepare for the future. I like describe my work as: preparing fertile ground for crazy ideas. You need buy in from the top to then allow the crazy ideas from across the organization to take root. Have taken my regeneration journey to the next level by moving to a tropical island to live a simpler life. The journey to regeneration starts with us as individuals. We need to be honest with ourselves: Am I part of the problem or part of the solution? My lifestyle was part of the problem and so Ive changed that. PS love your visuals
I had a big (for me) too-far-ahead moment at my college some years ago. It was a time of choosing some future directions and I saw sustainable design as a natural. The college (Evergreen State) prides itself on innovation and risk taking, and has decades of validating track record to back it up. I was well established, pretty well respected, had good results from pilot courses to show . . . and saw a tame, limited, conventional other direction get the nod instead. My reactions vibrated between GRRRR and Hmmmmm for quite a while. In the second mood, I could see that some of the same blindspots you mention were important parts of the picture. Oh well. The other direction didn't work well, and then the college got drenched in racist backlash when a discontented faculty member went on Fox News about our work on inclusion. We got the Proud Boys and all, back in 2017. The place is staying the course on inclusion and is finding some moves toward sustainability, I'm now retired, and the whole history dramatizes (for me) how justice has to be part of the picture. As we work for sustainability, we have to work for a world worth sustaining.
I resonate with this so much!
Important lessons here. Sounds like the story of my life LOL. Have been using the fields of design thinking, systems thinking and futures studies to help organizations prepare for the future. I like describe my work as: preparing fertile ground for crazy ideas. You need buy in from the top to then allow the crazy ideas from across the organization to take root. Have taken my regeneration journey to the next level by moving to a tropical island to live a simpler life. The journey to regeneration starts with us as individuals. We need to be honest with ourselves: Am I part of the problem or part of the solution? My lifestyle was part of the problem and so Ive changed that. PS love your visuals
It feels very important to be able to work slowly and remain unrecognised - just making descreet invitations
I had a big (for me) too-far-ahead moment at my college some years ago. It was a time of choosing some future directions and I saw sustainable design as a natural. The college (Evergreen State) prides itself on innovation and risk taking, and has decades of validating track record to back it up. I was well established, pretty well respected, had good results from pilot courses to show . . . and saw a tame, limited, conventional other direction get the nod instead. My reactions vibrated between GRRRR and Hmmmmm for quite a while. In the second mood, I could see that some of the same blindspots you mention were important parts of the picture. Oh well. The other direction didn't work well, and then the college got drenched in racist backlash when a discontented faculty member went on Fox News about our work on inclusion. We got the Proud Boys and all, back in 2017. The place is staying the course on inclusion and is finding some moves toward sustainability, I'm now retired, and the whole history dramatizes (for me) how justice has to be part of the picture. As we work for sustainability, we have to work for a world worth sustaining.