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decision-making

Community trust and effective decision-making

by acuginottiJuly 4, 2009

Participatory design becomes real in a sense of community – creating community and building on the social fabric is essential for trust to emerge among stakeholders and towards the whole process. Trust in community and in the process makes effective participatory design. We are talking about social systems, but this understanding also applies to PD [...]

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decision-making and automatisms

by acuginottiOctober 9, 2008

I’ve got some questions about my last post on this affirmation: “the act of continuous decision-making requires an automatism”. Perhaps that a bad way of express what I mean. Decisions are not made by only responding, so what I really mean is that it is a great support for decision-making when we have a framework [...]

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Language: macro framework for action

by acuginottiOctober 8, 2008

You must give birth to your images.
They are the future waiting to be born.
Fear not the strangeness you feel.
The future must enter you
Long before it happens.
Just wait for the birth,
for the hour of new clarity.
Erich Maria Rilke – quote of the month at Community Intelligence
 

 
Here I am working based on having a clear separate time/energy [...]

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participatory backcasting from principles

by acuginottiMarch 31, 2008

Too many articles to read… this is the first reflection draft in using backcasting from principles… conclusion section down here:
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The process of planning in a complex system such as sustainability has to take into account both natural and social aspects. Both aspects are considered by creating principles, or boundary conditions, within which a backcasting approach [...]

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