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(Learning) “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela The working context of the Transitioning
(Surviving) Our only security is our ability to change. ~John Lilly Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered Revealing
(Concealing) “Way-making (dao) that can be put into words is not really way-making” Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall What if we could feel Retrieving
(Regressing) “Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss… What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not Responding
(Predicting) It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change Reskilling
(Deskilling) “I seem to be a verb” R. Buckminster Fuller “All that was ‘normal’ has now evaporated; we have entered postnormal times, the Performing
(Using) “The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.” Naoto Fukasawa “At the level of the symbolic, architecture is a machine Occupying
(Vacating) “Bless you for your anger for it is a sign of rising energy. Direct not to your family, waste not on your enemy. Transform the Changing
(Maintaining) “Face it, Accept it, Deal with it, Let go of it.” Venerable Master Sheng-yen When student leaders from my school traveled to Agency
(Communion) “I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.” David Whyte Inheriting
(Opting In) “Inheritance is never a given. It is always a task. It remains before us.” Jacques Derrida How will the coming deflation Informing
(Forming) “Form is emptiness; emptiness form” Diamond Sutra Designing, functioning as a mirror, tangibly shows us what we take to be true Inconveniencing
(Conveniencing) “The technologies of convenience are making our sphere of exploration and experience smaller.” Robert Englund At Improvising
(Planning) “Jazz is not a what, it is a how.” Bill Evans “One Halloween, our group is excited to do a scary Halloween show. To start our Grounding
(Ungrounding) “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” Neil Focusing
Enframing (Distracting) “Design is telling stories about the future.” Handbook of Cognitive Task Design Speculative design of artifacts Flourishing
(Collapsing) The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a society’s Enworlding
(Worlding) “Much like a drum circle, we feel there’s a real metaphor for the way world building works in large-scale collaborations Engaging (Disengaging)
“The workplace is the key unit of change” Frederic Laloux The meeting of conscious enterprise and design thinking has Enforming
(Forming) “We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us”. — Marshall Mc Luhan In The Human Age, Diane Ackerman considers the Enacting (Acting) Ennobling
“Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.” Fernando Flores “Everything is designed. Few things Dying
(Living) “Grief is not a feeling; it’s a skill” Stephen Jenkinson Tim Wilson’s achingly beautiful film Griefwalker is a close study of the Disrupting
(Maintaining) “The spiritual is political. It’s not about me it’s about us and about our future. Change always comes from the margins Destroying
(Creating) “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” J. Robert Oppenheimer Like Shiva, the Creator-Destroyer archetype in Crisising
(Opportuniting) “We are the catastrophe.” Keith Witt Although our eponymous Anthropocene era represents a mere blink of an eye in Coupling
(Decoupling) “Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced Configuring
(Deploying) “Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.” Herbert A. Simon Building
(Flowing) “When we build, let us think that we build forever.” — John Ruskin Integral architect and educator Mark DeKay, in his Artifacturing
Hybriditing “Intelligence . . . is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.” Henri Bergson “the Aligning
(Scattering) “ The special status of designers in between users and producers gives them the opportunity to take the lead in a much needed Absenting
(Presencing) “The satori generation…marks the emergence of a new “‘qualified power,’ the power to do and the power to undo, and the Yielding
(Intervening) “The world is perfect as it is; including my desire to change it.” Ram Dass Passive House is an innovative, voluntary Wondering
Enquiring (Labeling) “From a mindful perspective, however, uncertainty creates the freedom to discover meaning.” Ellen Langer Our market Toggling
(Assuming) “Auschwitz is not the product of rationality. Auschwitz is the result of the many products of rationality being used in Reflecting
(Acting) Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941) Insanity can be defined as repeating the same Not Knowing
(Knowing) “The future is uncertain… but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity” Ilya Prigogine “Love and Fear in the Naturing - Artificing
“There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.” ― Martin Heidegger Nature is Mother Longing
(Resigning) “Behind the searing certainty of the cynic, there is always, hidden somewhere, disappointed longing.” John O’Donohue, Eternal Intra-Acting
(Inter-Acting) “Effective action leads to effective action: it is the cognitive circle that characterizes our becoming, as an Inter-designing
(Intra-designing) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African Proverb Who will we have to become Integrating
(Disintegrating) “The grand project of Integral Level Sustainable Design is the synthesis of cultural and natural orders Hoping
(Despairing) “Design is hope made visible.” Brian Collins “Fear is an appropriate response to crisis- it matters what we do with it. Fear may Grokking
(Reasoning) “Making is motivated by fundamental empathy.” Elaine Scary “Grok” /ˈɡrɒk/ is a word coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his 1961 Grieving
(Stagnating) “Don’t just do something, stand there” George Shultz. “The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an Enowning
(Enmeshing) The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself Empowering
(Constraining) “Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it Deviating
(Conforming) “If you can’t solve a problem, it’s because you’re playing by the rules.” — Paul Arden The Amish and Mennonite Desiring
(Satisfying) “Desire, freed from its state of tension no longer goes toward things, but everything quickens within desire like a continuous Deepening
(Flattening) “Our challenge is to bring ethics to the techno-sphere” Ken Wilber I duck into the women’s restroom at O’Hare Airport shortly Daring
(Hesitating) “You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.” Fernando Flores If something is Dancing
(Wrestling) “Regulation is a sign of design failure.” William McDunough “The Cobra Effect” a behavioral economics podcast in the Accepting
(Denying) “Face it, Accept it, Deal with it, Let go of it.” Venerable Master Sheng-yen “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But Situating
(Cutting) “If it’s not ethical it cannot be beautiful” Yves Behar As human beings, we are profoundly embedded in relations. In fact the Resonating
(Dissonating) ”Because the startling fact is that ecological wisdom does not consist in understanding how to live in accord with nature; Inter-Relating
(Dissociating) “It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak, and another to hear.” Henry David Thoreau In her thoughtful and Inter-Depending
(Independing) “Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.” Mahatma Identifying
(Disidentifying) “ I contain multitudes” Walt Whitman Corporate Social Responsibility, Humanitarian Aid or Social Innovation? What we Doing No Harm (Doing Harm)
“ How can one design or manufacture in a way that loves all of the children, of all species, for all time?” William Ciphering
(Rehearsing) “Build a home, teach a class, start a revolution Free the mind, heal the body, talking evolution” Jay Electronica “Six youths Answering (Overlooking)
“The best way to predict the future is to design it.” R Buckminster Fuller Back in 1976, Victor Papanek’s Design for the chrysanthemum2009