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Helen Titchen Beeth - 17 weeks 2 days ago
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learning innovation: steps to identify the immediate need for it
Dear Helen,
> I'm with you on the social and learning innovation
Thank you, that's inspiring me.
> the way I can see us best innovating in this field is in conversation together - quel surprise! So let's cook up some great questions on a nexus forum... (where would be best?)
For an inquiry about learning innovation, a good starting page could be the http://www.evolutionarynexus.org/enexus_blog/action_research_knowledge_gardening .
I offered there to co-host it "via a combination of skype talks, online forum, and wiki, starting around end of April, if there are at least 3 mates who will express interest to be part of it." Erik posted a "yes." If you'd do too, then we would need only one more person. Would you be a co-host to that inquiry?
I believe that discovering the arts and practices of knowledge gardening may well be our most significant contribution to learning innovation on Nexus, and also the most urgent. Your amazing work of wikifying the AoJ Journal is like creating the rich, fertile soil, from which various, new collaborative learning processes may grow and be tested/validated by the community. The action research would directly address the immediate needs of making the best use of the available knowledge resources on Nexus.
> (i) harvest back into the Nexus in the middle
yes!
> (ii) start implementing any concrete ideas that are of immediate relevance to us and that we therefore have the energy for prototyping.
As soon as we have one more person interested in linking research for knowledge practices worth replicating, with a concrete idea of immediate relevance to us, we can open a new forum focused on that action research... How does that sound to you, and others reading this here?
The need for wholeness?
As a quick answer to this last question raised by you Helen; I think it is about a need - or a longing - to express wholeness; wouldn't it?
And the purpose for that? To realise that we are - after all - divine???
A word about aesthetics
Duri, I'm with you on the social and learning innovation - the way I can see us best innovating in this field is in conversation together - quel surprise! So let's cook up some great questions on a nexus forum... (where would be best?), meet together to inquire in circle with whoever shows up, and (i) harvest back into the Nexus in the middle and (ii) start implementing any concrete ideas that are of immediate relevance to us and that we therefore have the energy for prototyping.
About aestetics
I was struck by the "aesthetics" in the middle of the propellor (which I love, by the way - it's the first time I've seen it). I was in conversation the other week with Gerard Bodifée, the Belgian cosmologist/philosopher. We were talking about the awakening of humanity as the conscious sensory organ of Gaia - the species that is able to witness and collectively (and globally) celebrate her beauty. Gerard insisted that what is truly unique about humanity is not its appreciation of beauty but its understanding of goodness. Which of course brought us around to the "big three" propounded by Ken Wilber: Goodness, Beauty and Truth.
Put these three together and I instantly hear alarm bells - because, of course, even hard scientific truth somehow seems like a subjective proposition, open to personal interpretation, let alone goodness and beauty. Not only open to interpretation but interpretation is inevitable! And we all interpret differently. If I look at how my aesthetic taste, morality and attitude to hard facts have changed over the years, I suspect that interpretation will depend to a great extent on where we stand on a developing scale of cognitive and emotional complexity and maturity.
With Evolutionary Nexus being such a community affair, the question then becomes, what happens when goodness, beauty and truth are mediated together? I can see this as another ongoing, every-deepening, collective inquiry, that I would be motivated to participate in. The question is, what need would it serve, and what purpose would it fulfil? That would have to be the first round of inquiry.