Following the story
'Stories from behind the scenes' tracked a profile group as part of an evaluation in 2013. Here's an inside design look. Thinking about Story the Future and the ILO Knowledge Academy [https:…
Where it begun realy
'I dont think it makes no diffrents where you start the telling of a thing. You never know where it begun realy.' Photo by Fancycrave on UnsplashThe opening quote is from…
All reports are interfaces
First published on the Sparknow blog in 2004. Lightly updated 2019. Editorial note: the projects being referred to are the EBRD information audit from 1999, the DTI 'Friendly Audit' and the SDC…
'One great symbiotic association'
This note arises from reading 'The Overstory' by Richard Powers (2018), combined with conversation with a friend who is working on a tree disease research project. The collective power of a 'dizzy…
The rigorous humility of confusion
'A lightness in the way we hold thoughts gives us room to learn and shift perspective, and to keep a rigorous humility of confusion.' I've been reading Nora Bateson (grand daughter…