Transforming Grounds

Today Harold Nelson and I announced ODC (Organizational Design Competence) which is our new business aimed at supporting individuals, teams, and organizations to develop their design competence. This is how we state who we are and what we do.  "Our mission is to act as a catalyst in organizations becoming design competent. Our team of design consultants and educators consists of international leaders in the design field with many years of experience working with diverse types of organizations, including business and government, at nearly every scale of enterprise. Our approach is to first gain an understanding of an organization's strengths in design competence and blockages to being design competent. We assist in transforming existing organizations into design competent organizations by establishing a design culture among the leadership and staff of the organization and enhancing their ability to apply a comprehensive design approach, which includes design thin...

Ok, I have decided to explore the philosophical movement that today is known as speculative realism . I have earlier read some works in that school of thought and was particularly fascinated by the writings of Graham Harman, especially in his book "The Prince of Networks". Harman is seen as one of the core figures in this new movements. So, on my desk are now " Towards Speculative Realism--Essays and Lectures " by Graham Harman " The Speculative Turn--Continental Materialism and Realism " edited by Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman " After Finitude " by Quentin Meillassoux I am really looking forward to get into these books and especially to see how this new thinking resonates with design philosophy. I will hopefully be back with some reviews... Since this philosophical movement has a clear relationship with Bruno Latour I have also a new book from him. It is " On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods ". Quite intrigui...

IN an excellent post on the Advanced Design Institute blog , my colleague and friend Harold Nelson explains the relationship between design and science and how it is possible to see scientists today as 'design critiques'. This is an intriguing observation that deserves  some reflection. Another point in his blog is that we see a lot of cross-over today where scientists acts as designers without taking on the responsibility.