Week 10
I think we’ve seen it said in other places that this is more like month notes than weeknotes. It is interesting how the cadences of work and life, unless otherwise embedded in a weekly ritual of reflections, can end up more as a clutter of thoughts in the back of the mind. Now that Daylight Savings Time has arrived, maybe its appropriate to reset all of the other “clocks” of lif as well. This, at least, will be the start of that intention.
We’ve continued and are expanding our work with organizations – companies or teams – at the front end of innovation. Our projects and opportunities continue to inform each other and contribute to a refining set of “design principles” for consideration either at the development of strategy or the shaping of specific place and space projects.
The concept of “scenius” showed up through a lost-again reference in other locations. The reminder was enough to have us do more research, reflect on our own work, write about it here, and set us on the path of a more defined point of view on this recurring subject in our work.
We are looking forward to meetings in the next couple of weeks to test our thinking and to engage in the activation of other’s projects where, we believe, these principles may not have been embedded, and where design to conventional functional criteria has left a lot of organizational capacity and energy undeveloped.
Jim Meredith
