Scaling, pacing, staging and patterning… Navigating fractal change through space and time

Change, change, change! So many clichés about change, so much ado about a big thing, so many ways to look at it and so many barriers to it! And just so it’s clear: I’m talking about social change (see some pictures about this concept), i.e. change that involves humans and their behaviour, as opposed to …

Emergence through energy?

Chaos can be such an incredibly ordered state of things. These days, on the professional front, I am running from a workshop in Benin to a working group meeting for the project ‘IKM Emergent’ (http://ikmemergent.wordpress.com), from the organisation of a symposium on sector learning in the WASH sector to initial discussions around an IRC internal …