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To stir a vortex of innovation, by jump-starting the propeller,
engage first the center.
The 5 components of this innovation architecture all need attention when going for a sustainable move to the next level of social systems. The questions below give an easy, "first approximation" access to the essence of each, in the context of our work at Evolutionary Nexus.
Learning Innovation. What are the mission-critical knowledge and capbility areas for the communities hosted here? What knowledge gardening practices support them well? How are emerging trends in social learning are taken into account when designing a community's learning architecture?
Social Innovation. What new models of governance and decision making provide the best value to the communities applying them? What collaboration practices free and sustain the ecstasy of co-creation? What roles and responsibilities will have to be agreed so that the communities can thrive?
Technology Innovation. What is the best mix of electronic technologies that we can use to power up our social technologies of freedom? How can complex tech tools be demystified and made simple to use by all?
Business Innovation. What new models of value creation will attract the resources that Nexus and the communities it hosts will require for meeting their evolving needs and aspirations?
Aesthetic Innovation. "Aesthetic" in the center of the propeller means beauty, not in the sense of decoration but beauty in all our relations, in all what we do. It refers to the unspeakable quality that flows from the source of our every life-affirming thought and action. What is needed for every Nexus page to become a reminder of that quality?
Friends, which of these 5 domains do you feel so attracted to that you would want to step into a circle stewarding it?
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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.