sensemaker
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The Moon and the Ghetto by Richard Nelson was recommended to me by Piret Toñurist at the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation. I had worked with Piret last semester while writing the report about Anticipatory Innovation Government in the Basque Country. The work on anticipatory innovation has helped me to frame SenseMaker interventions as helping
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This week’s reading reflection will cover a book that has been on my list for a long time: Brenda Dervin’s Sense-Making Methodology Reader. During my preparation for this blog, I realized that I hadn’t yet gone into much of the existing sense-making literature. I’ve been using Snowden’s definition of sense-making: getting a better understanding of the world
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This semester, I’m taking the required CONF 812- Qualitative Research Methods course. Our final project is conducting a small study and creating a research portfolio. I’ve chosen to pilot a few test questions that could be implemented in the Peace Engineering Lab’s SenseMaker framework that will be rolled out in the fall. Some of the
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For this week’s reading reflection, I read Surfing Uncertainty by Andy Clark, a Professor of Philosophy at University of Edinburgh. I was first introduced to Clark’s work in 2018 when I had the pleasure to attend the HowtheLightGetsIn festival at Hay on Wye with Dave Snowden and the rest of the Cognitive Edge and Cynefin Centre crew.
