Reflection, reflexivity and emergence

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Chris Mowles

In the last three weeks I have encountered IKME programme participants’ ability to be reflective and reflexive on three separate occasions. I think it is worth describing these occasions and trying to draw out why methods based on reflection and reflexivity might be important to a programme that wants to develop ways of working which [...]

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Complexity theory and the Steering Group Meeting in Amsterdam

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Chris Mowles

The Broker online magazine recently had a couple of articles on complexity theory, one by Alan Fowler and the second by Willemijn Verkoren summing up a panel discussion of Fowler’s paper. Verkoren mirrors the panel’s ambivalence about the theories and demonstrates some scepticism, asking how we could possibly take up Mandelbrot sets in daily practice, [...]

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