A CENSE of Discovery

Some sense and non-sensical discoveries on the road to learning about design, complexity and promoting health

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When we reimagine what a health system could look like from scratch, we invite conversations that lead us to places we wouldn't go to otherwise. This is the gift of design futures.

Why Imagine A Health System?

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Complexity sets traps as it tells stories. Moving faster doesn't tell them better, but gets us to add more complexity, not less.

Complexity, Speed and Storytelling

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What does does designing for classroom complexity look like?

Design for Classroom Complexity

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Classroom complexity brings together policy, practice, and design challenges for those seeking to make education and learning more effective. I'm exploring what this looks like, and why it's not a simple fix.

Classroom Complexity

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Strategy and preparedness in health systems can learn from other contexts like the recent incident in Finland where one of the most prepared countries in the world missed something that was right under their nose.

Seeing What Isn't Seen: Strategy in Complexity

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The complexity of the present day has echoes of COVID-19 -- we can learn lessons from then to apply to today's complex world.

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If we design for impact, but don't evaluate our work, what impact did we have? That's not a frivolous question. Evaluation is the pathway to understanding impact and ensuring that the designs we make create and promote health, not harm it.

Evaluation and Design for Health: An Imperative

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Learning in Complex Contexts with Design-Driven Evaluation

If you’re stuck trying to connect your ambitions, your programs, and evidence for use in complex contexts, traditional evaluation models won’t get you there. Design-driven evaluation might. Complex contexts involve multiple sources of input, changing conditions, and different timescales. They bring together uncertainty and a resistance to rigid, linear plans and to the use of evidence. This…

Learning in Complex Contexts with Design-Driven Evaluation

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Weakness of Strong Signals

Weakness of Strong Signals

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When wisdom seems thin, and complexity seems high. What way do find through it all? My thoughts on what happens when we go past our ability to make sense of where we are and our place in a complex world.

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Want to resist the algorithmic prison that our feeds have become? It might be time to check your email.

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Happy holidays and may the season bring the best out of the tension of light and darkness, hope and fear, and rest and energy.

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Remembrance and Care

University of Winnipeg Faculty Association It started out with a post of remembrance every year and, alas, I’ve let things slip in recent years. Yet, this is not out of lack of remembrance, but lack of sharing my thoughts on a day that has lived with me since it happened. Today, I’m picking up the tradition I’ve let falter and want to recognize the lives lost on December 6th, and remind us of…

Remembrance and Care

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Strategic design for complexity involves stumbling, fumbling and moving forward all at the same time -- but it can still get you to where you need to go. #complexity #strategy #strategicdesign

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A SWOT analysis, used well, can be a helpful way to engage your team in strategic thinking and strategy making. We explore how.

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What does it mean to create or make strategy? If you're creating a healthier future, you'll want to read this and consider how to build your strategy, by design. #strategicdesign #strategy #design

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Learning where AI helps, what it gives up, and how knowing the two makes the difference. What do you want from your designs? We explore intentions to actions.

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