Tag Archives: Failure

The New York Dereliction Walk: Failure, Innovation, and Social Movements for Change

Posted on November 7, 2018 by

Things change: the cities, towns, and rural landscapes that we live within do not form a passive backdrop to our actions, but rather cast a sharp shadow from them. Today i am sharing my full notes and research for ‘The … Continue reading →

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Apollo

Posted on November 6, 2018 by

The Saturn 5 rocket, the one that lofted Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin, into space and set them on the path to the moon, had more than three million parts to it. It’s sometimes reckoned to be the most complex machine … Continue reading →

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12 Modes of Innovation

Posted on October 24, 2018 by

Arguably, there is only one definition of ‘innovation’, which must read something like ‘to create something outside a known frame of understanding’: for me there is something about looking beyond the frames and context that we know, and looking through … Continue reading →

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The Dereliction Walk: early stage #WorkingOutLoud

Posted on October 18, 2018 by

I’m working on the design of a ‘Dereliction Walk’ in New York: it’s a group activity that explores ideas of innovation, failure, and the mechanisms of community driven change. You may have seen that much of my more recent work … Continue reading →

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12 Modes of Failure

Posted on October 17, 2018 by

Organisations fail for a broad range of reasons, but rarely for no reason at all. I found myself thinking about a taxonomy of failure: unless we deem failure to be the action of idiots and fools, we must be open … Continue reading →

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‘Safety Making’ – 9 routes to failure

Posted on October 11, 2018 by

I used a phrase in the blog yesterday, and it’s been stuck in my mind ever since: “People are engaged in some kind of mass hysteria, and mass ‘safety making’”. ‘Safety Making’: I wrote the sentence on an impulse: i … Continue reading →

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Designing a ‘Festival of Failure’. A #WorkingOutLoud post

Posted on September 24, 2018 by

Today i am sharing some elements of the design around failure: it’s for a one day ‘Festival of Failure’, a structured ‘sense making’ event, to act as the foundation for change. A celebration of failure is not about blame, but … Continue reading →

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