What's all the fuss about different thinking and a new way to knowledge? What is Dino really talking about? If you've been wondering, this vignette might be of some help. It is intended to serve as a parable. I don't remember how Pasha and I ended up in that meeting of our school's pupils committee. …
Design Epistemology
I have a three year-old son named Noah. A personal joke has been that "epistemology" would be the first word Noah would learn. Imagine the face of this little one as his father tells him about—epistemology! The pun is that Noah's father considers epistemology to be the clue that our next generation will need to …
Information Age Coming of Age
As in every epoch of its existence, mankind today finds itself in a particular "situation". And as always this situation is created and nurtured by those who live amid the myriad events that comprise it—events that now are in the process of tumultuous and ever accelerating change, events that now increasingly and even violently clash with …
Foundation Frontier
I wrote this title to suggest: something attractive—a "frontier" opening up, in academia and knowledge work at large, where we can update the very foundation of what we do; something hidden—as a "foundation" tends to be, this frontier is, as it were, 'hidden under the ground,' and we have as challenge to make it visible. …
Knowledge Federation – an Enabler of Systemic Innovation
Imagine that you are a journalist; and that one day you wake up thinking: "It really makes no sense to be a journalist while the things are as they are. It is not clear that journalism can still make money (in a world with abundant free information). And it is not clear that journalism can …
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Boldly Creating a World that Works for All
“Boldly creating a world that works for all” is the motto of the San Francisco Bay Area Future Salon, where I gave my last lecture before leaving the United States, on May 26th, the evening before my flight back to Norway. "I will invite the Future Salon members to a bit of meta-thinking and meta-design," …
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Knowledge Federation Act Two
The invitation flyer for the Dubrovnik workshop and the new Knowledge Federation website having been completed, Act Two of Knowledge Federation development is about to begin. You may think of a knowledge federation as a new way of orchestrating knowledge work, which suits the interactive, networked media technology as astutely as the conventional organization suited the …
Ode to Self-Organization
What I want to tell you about is self-organization in knowledge work. That will, namely, be the lead theme of the Knowledge Federation 2010 workshop, which I will be facilitating this fall. But before I do that, I would like to say just a few words about how I think a sustainable course of development …
Return to Reason
A reader not interested in how to update the academic practice to better serve the society might prefer to skip this entry. Stephen Toulmin (1922-2009) was a philosopher in good standing. Having studied at Cambridge early enough to take classes from Wittgenstein, he went on to develop his own point of view, which enabled him to …
Knowledge federation elevator pitches
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the key task that remains for knowledge federation is to begin doing it. My key task then is to bring together a suitable creative mix of people and organizations who will be the first members, co-creators and stake holders in the first federation. Every time I talk to …
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