Apropos of what I blogged the other day on vision, Johnnie Moore has posted a nice piece at finding where the true potential lies. Change is often spoken of as something to be done elsewhere, by other people. I think the effect is to make change some hypothetical process, and perhaps to give the speakers a kind of illusory sense of power. Turning the conversation to the one thing we can change – ourselves and the ways in which we interact with the world – creates a more empowering and realistic set of tasks, and works from a vision that …
I’ve been playing around with Webjay for a few months now. It’s a tool that creates playlists of music (and other media) from users all over the place. My musical tastes are pretty varied, but I have always loved what is known as “world music” and so I have distilled some great findings on the web into a rotating top 40 of sounds that are making my ears tingle at the moment. You might have heard of some of these artists, but I’m willing to be that most of them are new discoveries. Go visit the playlist and have a …
Recent searches that have brought visitors to Parking Lot: “repatriation of sacred objects and human bones and First Nations people” “japan everyday relationship to living space” “How did politics influence space technology?” “every Year the Salmon Come Back” “Ojibway turtle song lyrics” “example of short essay about students parking space” “the claw marks of those who preceded us” “experiences living in remote communities” “poems for staff finishing work” “hungarian detachment AND strategy” “small structure in open space” That last one would make a cool tag line, eh? Welcome to all of you, no matter how you got here.
It seems almost intuitive that there should be a connection between seeing and vision. Certainly in the physiological processes, seeing is what you do and vision is what you have. You can still see if you have bad vision, but you can’t see well. I have been reading Presence by Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworsky and Betty Sue Flowers very slowly now for a few months and it’s time to start posting from it. The book is really about the evolution of Otto Scharmer’s Theory U, which is a map for looking at how people reach down into their …
I’m an Open Space Technology guy, but that doesn’t cloud my eyes to other forms of self-organizing tools. From the ever interesting Designing for Civil Society comes a report from David Wilcox on a speed dating process to form communities of practice. In 35 minutes.