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Emergence in Design enables learning from whatever happens—having the courage to take the risk in ambiguity. Emergence is often experienced as unpredictable, unexpected, messy or chaotic—all those things you never imagined could happen! No matter how well you design a … Continue reading
Energetic in Design is to go slow to go fast—the tension between intention, attention and integration. Energetic in design would be very different in how it’s experienced by differing cultural groups – “being” cultures as different from the “doing” cultures. … Continue reading
Embodiment in Design explores other ways of knowing—body, mind, heart and spirit Embodiment happens when you learn through experience. Let’s imagine for a moment that you’ve been taking Spanish lessons once a week for 6 weeks. You have a sense … Continue reading
Elegance in Design is complex in nature yet simple in execution. Elegant design has layers of discrete, step by step processes that build upon each other in ways that expand our capacity to hold more conceptually and increases the prospect … Continue reading
Empathy in Design is to connect before content – build relations to hold the field Empathy is about building rapport and mutuality. Imagine you are about to design a conversation for a group of stakeholders with diverse perspectives around a … Continue reading