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I'm interested in:

#ClimateChange #Ecology #Sustainability

#Complexity #Cybernetics #SystemsThinking

#Epistemology #GregoryBateson #WarmData #TheoryOfChange

#Design #DesignResearch #Ethnography #Innovation #ServiceDesign #StrategicDesign #TransitionDesign #UXdesign

#Futures #Foresight #ChangeManagement

#Psychology

#Colorado #Boulder

#Climbing #Cycling #BikePacking

When someone solves a problem nobody had #theoryofchange #failure

This week on my podcast, I read my recent @medium column, "Ideas Lying Around: Milton Friedman was a monster, but he wasn’t wrong about this," which I describe a #TheoryOfChange for unrigging markets, addressing the climate emergency, building worker power and fixing the imbalance between news publishers and #BigTech:

https://doctorow.medium.com/ideas-lying-around-33a28901a7ae

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How does #change for the better happen? Can our political system deliver the huge changes we need, as urgently as we need them?

I’ve long argued that, in order to tackle the #ClimateCrisis, we need radical political, economic and cultural #transformation. And I’ve always been told that we don’t have time for that.

This week, we’ve seen the real-time impacts of the environment movement’s refusal to think outside the box of existing political power. And the Greens’ failure (thus far) to build the social movements necessary to support our parliamentary negotiations. And, most starkly, the complete corruption of our mainstream politics - the fact that Labor and the press gallery act as mouthpieces for the fossil fuel industry and believe political manoeuvring is more important than stopping omnicide.

I thought this would be a good time to re-share this essay I wrote a couple of years ago, explaining my #TheoryOfChange in this moment of #polycrisis.

It draws on ideas of #ecologicalDemocracy and #EcoAnarchism, and forms the basis of a chunk of the last chapter of #LivingDemocracy.

Here it is: https://arena.org.au/theres-no-time-left-not-to-do-everything/

#ClimateDiary Am giving the last lecture of my #Personhood module today - about personhood and the #Anthropocene. Amongst other things I will talk about how everyone should have a #TheoryOfChange, and my own: #Murmurations. And it so happens that the coffee I am whilst preparing my slides is called Murmurations! So had to share that moment here. Can elaborate a bit later but need to finish my lecture (and give it) first..

It was a really busy week in work. We started on Monday with the launch of the National Challenge Fund at #SFI. The team at CES are delivering training in Theory of Change as part of the programme, and we were in with groups on Tuesday and Wednesday. They were really fun, interactive sessions with the researchers bringing a lot into the room. #NationalChallengeFund #SFI #research #TheoryOfChange #EvidenceBasedPolicy

... One such tool I personally find helpful and think would be good is called a "logic model" — it's a way of expressing your _theory of change_.

And all of this is to say, I wrote a short post about this tool in Fedora -- we're using it as a framework to plan and structure our strategy for the next five years.

Check it out if this is at all interesting to you:.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/theory-of-change-how-we-plan-and-explain-our-plans/46632

#logicmodel #strategy #planning #fedora #theoryofchange

@AlSolano we are doing a LOT around #TheoryOfChange and #LogicModel based evaluation at my university right now. It is helping us be more reflective and inclusive in how we evaluate, even if some people feel a bit at see without a quantitative-only focus to their methodology.

I’m feeling kind of like an explorer as I navigate this new platform.

When I do post it will likely be about a few topics. #scipol #localgov #ncpol #policy #science #scicomm #impact #Civicscience #theoryofchange #design #ux #participatorydesign

If you post/care about any of these things I’d love to connect!

You’d think it would be obvious at this point in our shared history, but judging from some of the things I’ve read lately, this may not be universally clear to everyone. It takes more than good intent, a technically clever design and boundless reserves of energy: your #theoryofchange has to account for the inevitability of adversarial action. h/t to @KevinCarson1 for the link.

Any policy/programme #evaluation people here?

Here’s a moan about #RealistEvaluation

https://www.andifugard.info/realistic-about-realist-eval/

#RealisticEvaluation #TheoryOfChange #ProgramEvaluation
#PolicyEvaluation
#ProgrammeEvaluation

Hello I’m new on Mastodon
Some of my fields of interest

#AcademicWriting #AppreciativeInquiry #ChangeManagement #Coaching #Consultancy #Education #Evaluation #Leadership #LogicModel #OrganizationalDevelopment #Policy #PolicyResearch #ProfessionalDevelopment #ProfessionalWriting #QualityManagement #Research #SolutionsFocus #Supervision #SystemsThinking #TheoryOfChange #Writing

#Photography #Painting #History #Science #Technology #Philosophy

#onderwijs #schrijfcoaching

Um zu verhindern, dass die Stiftung der #NoAfD zur rechtsextremen Kaderschmiede wird, braucht es ein Stiftungsgesetz. Im aktuellen @campact@twitter.com-#Podcast #TheoryofChange gibt es mehr Informationen dazu 🎧👉https://blog.campact.de/2022/07/theory-of-change-21-millionen-fuer-die-afd-stiftungsgesetz/

Lecture on "Are Systems Changes Different from System + Change?" at #OCADU_SFI #SystemicDesign master's, web video and digital audio now at http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/are-systems-changes-different-from-system-change/ .

Lecture of 1h18m covered 37 of 55 slides, all online for #SystemsChange #SystemsThinking #theoryofchange

Interesting to reflect on Shannon Mattern's #MaintainFest talk about #Degrowth and how we currently measure success by how much things grow, alongside the #TheoryOfChange workshop for #DoESLiverpool from last night