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Regenerative Governance cultivates the conditions for each place to express its own identity, relationships and unique potential. It shifts governance

There is something here about the nature of perception. Human beings have a persistent habit of confusing the limits of visibility with the limits of

"I never get writer's block because I don't think of creativity as a string of ideas. That's how people get stuck; they can't think up the next idea.

There is something here about the nature of perception. Human beings have a persistent habit of confusing the limits of visibility with the limits of

Manufactured marvel: Five days. That’s how long it took 100 workers in China to construct a 26-story residential tower. But if that sounds crazy, wait

What we’ve learned about making collaboration workInnovation is a marathon, not a sprint. It is therefore essential to create the space for people to

In our work with teams across sectors, we have identified four structures of attention that organize how we listen, think, and act:4 1.0: Downloading

Recognition Happens Before Thought Pribram believed one of the brain’s greatest clues was hidden in a simple everyday experience. You walk into a cro

For Pribram, intelligence emerges not from signals themselves but from relationships among signals.

The idea that humans exist as autonomous and bounded individuals, separate from everything else (community, the planet, objects, the natural world), i

The point is not to “pick one preferred future,” and hope for it to come to pass (or, even, work to create it—though there are some situations where a

Properly understood, a scenario is an input, not an end product. Using various methods, you build several futures, usually divergent, and test a plan

A genuine scenario set doesn't resolve the discomfort of not knowing. It stays with it, on purpose, to keep you honest, which is often more honest and

Properly understood, a scenario is an input, not an end product. Using various methods, you build several futures, usually divergent, and test a plan

A genuine scenario set doesn't resolve the discomfort of not knowing. It stays with it, on purpose, to keep you honest, which is often more honest and

Recognition Happens Before Thought Pribram believed one of the brain’s greatest clues was hidden in a simple everyday experience. You walk into a cro

For Pribram, intelligence emerges not from signals themselves but from relationships among signals.

The idea that humans exist as autonomous and bounded individuals, separate from everything else (community, the planet, objects, the natural world), i

Indigenous and rural black communities in Latin America often predicate their existence on this radical interdependence. Based on these experiences,

As the changing climate wreaks havoc on the four seasons, some people with means are fashioning their own. They are equipping their homes (and even th

Dewey (2008) reminds us that “we can never educate directly, but only by means of the environment.” If this is true, then climate change education can

Rather than teaching climate change as a problem “out there,” it should encourage learners to see themselves as participants in complex systems that t

Indigenous and rural black communities in Latin America often predicate their existence on this radical interdependence. Based on these experiences,

Amateurs try to manage a community, but great leaders create more leaders. Nearly every challenge of building a community can be met by asking yoursel

When Denmark hit rock bottom in the nineteenth century — a bankrupt state, lost wars, lost territory, a rural population left behind by the currents o

That is what social soil infrastructure looks like: unspectacular, relational, generative — and civilizationally consequential. What we need now is an

The idea that humans exist as autonomous and bounded individuals, separate from everything else (community, the planet, objects, the natural world), i

For Pribram, intelligence emerges not from signals themselves but from relationships among signals.

When Denmark hit rock bottom in the nineteenth century — a bankrupt state, lost wars, lost territory, a rural population left behind by the currents o

That is what social soil infrastructure looks like: unspectacular, relational, generative — and civilizationally consequential. What we need now is an

The first opportunity is when you are initially discussing the engagement. You’ll want to give the prospective client multiple options for the engagem

Most clients aren’t ready for everything, so don’t overwhelm them. This can also be a strategy for a later engagement that’s more “advanced” in nature

No middle ground: free to prospects … or high fees to clients. The distinction here is that the free stuff is unapplied, leaving the prospect to figur

what you should be talking about is whether you are a mutual fit and how you will go about solving their challenge. Nothing else.

To strengthen the imagination, we must favour and engage what I call the aptitudes of the soul—receptivity, the body’s wisdom, intuition, relationalit

What we call the imagination is our ability to relate to symbols in their own environment. Unlike pulling a symbol into our world and subjecting it to

In other words, the physical world isn’t the only real reality.

Imagination is not a thing. It is not a muscle we have to strengthen or a part of the brain that we need to unlock. It is not bestowed on a chosen few

Design thinking relies on the natural—and coachable—human ability to be intuitive, to recognize patterns, and to construct ideas that are emotionally

Being human centered is at the core of our innovation process. Deep empathy for people makes our observations powerful sources of inspiration. We aim

While experience is useful, scenario analysis is one of an architect’s most powerful tools to allow iterative design without building whole systems. B

Transformative scenario planning is not a way for actors to adapt to a situation or to force its transformation or to implement an already-formulated

Scenarios are thus the most powerful vehicles I know for challenging our “mental models” about the world, and lifting the “blinders” that limit our cr

This method is the scenario—a vehicle, as my colleague Napier Collyns says, for an “imaginative leap into the future.”

Using productivity to measure worth is a standard we also impose on ourselves. And in the process, many Americans have internalized the values of our

Holographic means: The whole is contained in every abstracted part no matter how small the piece. This comes from a hologram, a three-dimensional imag

Another paradox of the quantum world is that you can affect something at a physical distance from you using thought alone, with no apparent or logical

Pre-analytic vision. Worldview. Paradigm. Frame. These are cousin concepts. What matters more than the one you choose to use is to realise that you ha