Background on Design Science meetings #mosocoop #mtw3 #winterlude4 #designscience

This post is some background on topics I am relating to over the next few months. The #mosocoop project has agreed to arrange a meeting about Design Science and Sustainability on March 14th. There will be online conversation around this starting in January. Some of the issues will also come up in #mtw3, a conference on Management Theory at Work. Design science relates to teaching but I think the #mosocoop event will concentrate on sustainability. Also at this time of year there is usually a Winterlude, a period of reflection over which technology shifts in time for BETT. #mosocoop is not really about technology but publishing is mostly online.

More about design science in previous posts on this blog and on these websites-

#mtw3

#mosocoop

and on Linkedin, groups

mosocoop

mtw3

Adobe and four layers of mud - draft #BETT_show

This is a start on trying to outline a timescale for technology. There will be a better version around the time of BETT. Not that Adobe will be at BETT I think but they have been previously and it is always an occasion to check things out.

At Learning Technologies there is another floor for Learning and Skills where a less digital world continues. There is still interest in print and InDesign for example. Upstairs the Adobe approach continues Macromedia emphasis on Flash. So it suggested some evidence for a future archaeologist concluding this was on some sort of sequence.

Recently Adobe has turned to analytics and marketing. I am still not sure what this is about. It seems to be structured from some other place. It is not clear how it fits with existing connections with Adobe. There was very little about this at Cross Media Live for example.

I also think there is another layer of mud for virtual worlds but the timing for this is muddled. I vaguely remember Adobe Atmosphere and looked it up on Wikipedia. 

Atmosphere existed between 2001 and 2004. It was software to create worlds. Maybe a business model selling land would have worked better. Maybe it was too hard to produce a stable version at that time.

I don't know in any detail what is happening with Twinity. Linden Labs are launching new products for mobile. Some sort of 3D world is emerging. 

Time shifting and radio, Wild Show this Thursday, Scatman, Spacex

When we looked at the design envelope I was probably at the disruptive end of one axis, close to the ceiling. JD and Chris are closer to the sediment on the floor, they keep to the idea of a radio show in real time. Of course this will continue.

But clips on YouTube or Soundcloud or somewhere makes sense also. This week I will be in London on Thursday but plan A is for prerecording to cover the first half hour. Interview with Scatman with added tracks. I happened to meet him earlier today and have been invited to his show on Saturday. So I will have to leave Spacex fairly quick after the talk. Should be ok but I think talk about galleries will not have much space on the Wild Show till next year. Apart from keeping up with Scatman we have the Phonic benefit party to promote.

Assume most things subject to delay but follow up for later.

Comment on Design Science from Antony Upward #mtw3 #mosocoop

Sometimes the comments are not that visible so I am reposting this one

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Will,
Thanks for this post... appreciated.

Do you know the work of the UK licensee of The Natural Step - Forum for the Future - and their work on Sustainable Business Models?

In terms of a definition of design science. A few things.

- Design science can be said to originate in Herbert Simon's classic1969 work "sciences of the artificial". Clearly computer design (user interface etc.) is a good example of design, but in fact as people like Russel Ackoff have observed there is a close connection between all problem solving and design. Late 19th C pragmatic philosophers like Charles Sanders Pierce considered design to be a different type of thinking - abduction - cf. deduction and induction. People like Ackoff was particularly looking a system thinking and design.

- check out my ever expanding bibliography of works related to design science and sustainability.

I think I've not added some of my latest finds on this topic.

- Check out programs like the Masters of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation - http://www.ocadu.ca/programs/graduate_studies/mdes_strategic_foresight_innova... - this is a Canadian example but based on discussions in this group its not unique https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=phd-design. The OCADU program is focused on applying design approaches to anything which isn't "a thing" - policy, business model, process, etc. etc.

- Finally in terms of design and sustainability and organizations I've got a draft article (which I'm currently shopping around)... entitled "Design Science to the Rescue? Knowledge Production for the Sustainable Organization". I'll email that to you.

Cheers
Antony

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I have found a website for Forum for the Future and a link to a course they offer

Also found some guidance on "abduction" . 

And I now have a copy of the paper - "Design Science to the Rescue? Knowledge Production for the Sustainable Organization"
Let me know if you would like a copy and I will check case by case with Antony.

My guess is that this will be published in time for an actual #mtw3

I will ask about abduction at the Deming meet on Thursday.

Design Science, looking back to Deming and at User Experience #mosocoop #mtw3

Earlier today I got an update from Antony Upward on his work on a Strongly Sustainable Business Model. I am interested in this both in relation to a Model of a Sustainable Organisation - MoSO - an update on Deming ands also #mtw3 , a conference on applied management theory.

Antony Upward includes Design Science as part of his approach

The Management Theory at Work - #mtw3 - online phase has found Design Science as part of John Burgoyne's take on whatever follows the end of leadership, and in Diana Laurillard's recent book on designing teaching. So I am looking for more on Design Science to connect this as a flow.

The impression I get is that interest in Design Science has come through work on computer interfaces and websites. I can't find many references on this though, except on YouTube so this link is worth repeating

At the Futures Conference at the LCC I heard several speakers discuss user experience as part of design for websites, mobile and games. Probably a lot the method could be described through terms developed by Deming but it is worth exploring how the new terms are used. There are various descriptions of a learning loop and it may be easier to accept the words people start with.

Back to Antony Upward. His recent blog post describes a presentation from the late stages of his PhD research

Two more links he suggests -

If you want an good intro on what SSBMG is doing take a look at http://slab.ocad.ca/SSBMs_Defining_the_Field and the new posts this week at http://slab.ocad.ca/SSOs_Towards_a_Definition.

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By the way, slightly off topic. Last week discussing the problems of web access in villages near Exeter ( Devon, UK ) I came across a new phrase - "unsustainable communities" . It seems not to be official but I have found it on sites complaining about bad bandwidth. Apparently a "sustainable community" is the sort of place that should have broadband. But by implication there are "unsustainable communities" as well. Presumably these are places where there is no obligation for broadband to be available. Not sure I have got this right. But definitions of "sustainable" vary so if there really is an official policy on "unsustainable communities" it would be interesting to know what this means.  

Convergance, found through Facebook #mtw3 #mosocoop

Still not sure where Twinity is going. It may have stopped developing for a while. Bringing back the streets may not just depend on affording the map data. I guess hosting the data has a cost also. So I am trying to think of other ways of relating to real space.

Meanwhile I keep getting info through this kind of link. Can't follow it all but what I find is making sense.

Any sort of conference or meeting such as #mtw3 or #mosocoop can benefit from online presence in various forms.

Jeremy Deller links to playful Bristol, deadline looms

Over the weekend I edited an mp3 from the Wild Show last week into clips for YouTube.

found on "neorepliucants" though lots of Bladerunner also. Should get better search on NeoReplicants as more stuff  turns up.

This set also helps raise questions around copyright and social media. Video for Rougemont Global Broadcasting and other channels is usually limited to mostly music as clearance is more likely. Graphics from art venues is much more protected. The conversation on the Wild Show includes why we can select bits of sound for a show but normally cannot link to graphics of video on Facebook. Maybe this is changing, the blog form is intended to test this.

I have started to check out blogs relating to previous topics. I tried some collage on the bouncy Stonehenge, shifting it to Totnes and Sidmouth. Recent post about Jeremy Deller quotes his support for play in art, in particular the Bristol project for a playful city. Turns out there is a £30,000 budget but the deadline is this week. So my thinking so far is around moving bits of city to another one. I realise many other people already knew that it is possible to import a 3D object into a virtual world. But for me this is recent, as something I can do. Video is possible in Twinity but I am just doing 3D photos, sometimes with elements pasted in from an actaul photo.

Exeter seems to be just big enough as a city to have the essentials to complement the web - minimum of a cafe and a tech shop. I have also recently visited Lancaster and Taunton. Both work pretty well. A model virtual version works best for a city that can be walked across as far as the central bit is concerned. Bristol is now on far too many sites as I remember it. There is the waterside area around where the docks used to be. There are shops near the motorway exits way to the north. I know there is a shopping area closer to the centre but have not been there recently.

A quick search on Google Maps tells me there is a Castle Park but I can't see much of a castle. Scan somewhere else and move it in, maybe as a projection or through some form of goggles. There are several ways to add something to a screen based on recognising a barcode or image. As explained above, stills and video can be produced through compositing.

In Exeter we could check out which aspects of a university campus could be moved back to the centre. The Phoenix and the area near the museum were once a base for Exeter University. The Arts School moved out beyond Barrack Road and then to Plymouth.   Recently the new Forum project happened to eliminate a bookshop from the university resources. It may turn out that this is very sensible if mobile devices replace the functions of a printed book. But it raises a question about other aspects of the site such as the library and the lecture spaces. Could video conferencing have a role? Bristol still has a university in the city so this is a useful comparison.

More later, still a couple of days.

I think most of the budget should be used for scans, both objects and buildings.

I wonder if Volkhardt Mueller would contribute? His work on Any High Street seemed to me to be more about Any City. When he was on the Wild Show I think he was genuinely interested in an app or some way of distributing images through a digital system. Not sure what the business model would be. The Bristol funding assumes creative commons but this might be combined with something else later.

Creative Commons attribution on previous post #mtw3 #mosocoop

Sorry, forgot to credit the original of the photo in previous post about moving sculpture from the Work Foundation to near the Chartered Quality Institute.

Photo by Ewan Munro on Creative Commons basis so I think adding something in is ok.

original title

Blue Anchor, Holborn, EC4

The actual CQI is round the corner.

By the way, as memory serves the office block that the Blue Anchor moved into was once a mainframe bureau and the basement included a pool table, a modem and at least one personal computer, regarded as slightly off topic for the rest of the building.

Two photos shifting the Work Foundation through space #mtw3 #mosocoop

Next week there is an actual meeting of the Deming SIG at the CQI in London. Details on request. It is likely to be a planning meeting for next year so not putting you off but there may be something more interesting later for a wider audience.

I don't know how issues around Deming will be part of a face-to-face #mtw3 but this may become more clear in the new year. Meanwhile I am moving the sculpture outside the Work Foundation to other locations. Twinity continues as a base for conversation and social media. "Beach For You" has potential as a sculpture park but there is no scan yet or permission for such.

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