After being registered for a year and using it actively for a few months I now get twitter. Two recent uses have twigged me to twitter’s terrificness. This month when the roads on Bowen Island were slippery and dangerous a group of us worked over twitter to create a road status tool that uses crowdsourcing to report on road conditions on our island. Road conditions are incredibly variable depending on the altitude of the road (from sea level to 500 feet and more) and so it’s not enough to say “Grafton Road is clear” because it might be snowchoked up …
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I’m reading through Otto Schamer‘s Theory U again, this time with an eye to noting how his model and stories can inspire designs in my own work. I came across a story in the book (can’t remember where) in which Otto is working with a group to make some meaning and see patterns, as a way of sensing the bigger field of work. The group was given a transcript of a lot of information – interviews mostly and invited to circle or highlight those quotes that seemed to talk to the bigger patterns out there. then, as an …
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Last year I was invited to give a talk on the shapes of community engagement for a conference sponsored by the BC Treaty Commission called Forging Linkages and Finding Solutions. This is the slide deck I used and here is a transcript of my talk.
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Back from Maui and here are the things that you need to know about that amazing island. This was our fourth trip there and we’re very much in the flow of Maui as an almost second home. If there was a theme to this trip it was LOCAL. We stayed close to our living quarters for the most part, ate local food, consumed local media and tapped in to local issues. When we are in Maui we rent a little condo at a place called Hale Kamaole, which is an older condo complex in Kihei on the sunny …
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Stuff people threw my way: Brad Ovenell Carter has been using Webspiration. It works for me in Chrome but not Firefox… Mark Brady on when times will get good again. Dervala Hanley, whose taste I trust absolutely, posts her favourite books and music from last year. My own Bowen Island Journal has a new home See you all in a couple of weeks.