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Design thinking is an innovative process
Crisis in perception (in vocab)
Cultural capitol-Pierre Bourbieu
Vocab is the basis for everything
In this course we’re going to look at it one word at a time
Engage with text
Post structuralist
9/11
In fishbowl- learning through osmosis
When you get a name of person in email… google them and select sentence about, then deconstruct letters
Key to design.. Thinking … creating a living text
If not=dead space
Immerse yourself in text-think about the word at all times
Thinking 1 word at a time
Selection in dictionary
Words are values
Social meeting exercise
Open ended meeting
Before meeting write down feelings
Ethnographic notes.. In the moment
And write notes after meeting in detail
From notes select 6 words
Pair words into 3 pairs not associated with each other
Go into dictionary and write them out
w/ the words from the dictionary to write a simple sentence
There will be 3 sentences with the opposite words
It’s a framework to interpret social meeting
Put the sentence then a paragraph of incidents on the social meeting (make it together (3 para total) (no I)
When we share our differences we get closer
The precise meaning/significance will vary according to the frame of reference to which it’s viewed
Key words: precise, meaning, significance, vary, according, frame, reference, view
Find these in the dictionary and write down meaning then come up with a sentence with all the words

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Nuance
To see each other's differences
Why? -- we want to determine the differences in our selection to create value
First person action research -- google
Learning to abstract
Stay rooted in reality
Textural turn-- things changed after that
Cultural value
Bountiful
Experience is dependant on social relations
Canadian film notes
Gracefully walking into ballroom
Scott boxed in.. no excuse for what he did
Mother is emotional about Scott saying she failed him
Creative process
Done 1 step at a time
Girl can’t speak because of his negative attitude
Fran and Scott are breaking structure
Heros set the right example
Tina Sparkle doesn’t break structure
“I just want to dance our steps.” doesn’t care if win

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10/2
Impact of postings in the Fishbowl
Engagement with each other
Innovativeness that we’re bringing forth
Changing the way you think
Show evidence on how we changed our way of thinking
Become conscious of how it was done
Selection of words from the dictionary
Go into dictionary and substitute the word
Put it into nuances- look at the gray areas
Creates innovative ideas
Learning takes place upon reflection and realization
Enhancing our understanding by selecting the words - deeper understanding
Deep learning
Look for 1 sentence to understand what doing in the Fishbowl
Mary Joe Hatch
Create an understanding - important to know how to interpret
Critically- realizing there are other interpretations of it - deeper understanding
Communication that adds value
Contemplation
Scott and Fran went through journey of communicating and realizing
Unique outcomes
Word craftsmen
Playing word games-- constructing meaning through this
The slower you move, the farther you go
Your mind has to go into different places, you have to watch you mind in order to do so
Which symbols (words) used to create meaning
Note taking and making- at the heart of action learning
Producing knowledge -- a social practice

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10/9
Knowledge worker
Sharing our thought process
The way your mind works is the resource you bring to the forefront
Coming up with a structure of your own when writing sentences
Step 4 is bringing I into the picture
Next is describing an event or instance
Keep it short
Must fit the abstraction
Think from your own experiences
Step 1-4 on your own
Step 5 you’re now working together
Perceptual categories
Reductionist technique - reduce it all to one word
How does the text make you feel
We are sharing our symbols with each other
Ownership of your text by creating structure and sharing your feelings on the text
Becomes a knowing and a knowledge
Push boundaries by widening the word pool
Make sure to do it jointly
Look at words as symbols to create a final sentence
Step 11 - realization and insight
Improving your English by doing the vocabulary
A state of becoming

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10/ 16
11 steps
Self-reflection, participating, observing ourselves
Participant observation
Metaphor is a bridge
Between between the concrete word and abstract mind, linking something known to the senses, with an abstraction of the mind, always working to describe the abstract with the concrete
Bridge-link
Concrete-material
Abstract mind-deep thoughts
Linking-joining
Known-common
Senses-feelings
Working-functioning
Describe-characterize
There are construction workers using their abstract mind while working on the concrete bridge, they have these senses that could be described as linking the known to the unknown.
It’s common to link deep thoughts and feelings to characterizing the materials needed in joining what we feel and what we do.
Steps:
Original sentence
Then creating our own sentence-restructure
Felt experience-1st person-general statement
Then working together to give 1 word for 3 sentences of others (9 total)
Pairing the words dichotomy - unrelated words
Jointly create sentence
Last step-individually-insight and realization
Circle 3 random words and write a paragraph on the differences/similarities of these

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10/23
Money is made if your skills are conceptual
Can’t be distracted from your focus
Learn to empower your text
Reification
The structure in our head of how we perceive the world, we begin to see that as reality
Learning to write your own textbook
Capture fleeting images in my mind
Knowing and knowledge creation
Start with the feeling
The Guys Movie
Lives in New York
Woman has a family, husband, career
Spent her younger years before kids traveling
Likes Park Slope where her sister lives
Sept 11th
Attack
Fireman needed a writer, her friend asks her to write eulogies for him
8 men died in the company
Eulogies are geared towards their great lives not death
She is leading the situation with implementing ideas
Symbolic reflection, self reflection, imagination, text, images, metaphors
Impact is extraordinary when working the text
Bonding through memories
He’s a dancer
Shows her how to tango, didn’t actually
Constantly learning through words
Guilty he’s alive because Pat took his shift

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10/30
Everyday ask if you’re creating value
Intimacy
The way we touch each other
It’s being altered
Designing text, designing an organization
Looking at it as reading and writing
Focus
The word has images
Information comes from the image
Curious
Different ways of thinking
Known as a discourse
Conversation within that discourse
Think and collaborate
Always project felt experience to that which is abstract
Strictly Ballroom
Come into organization and write a report
Must have a title usually it’s a metaphor
Must get the steps right
Machine side- not functional
Scott isn’t being allowed because machine has come to a stand still
Design an innovative organization where Fran and Scott can thrive
Organization as brains - metaphor
Learning and mechanistic way of thinking doesn’t go together
A machine doesn’t allow innovation
It will come to a standstill
Engage in a continuous construction and deconstruction of meaning
Textual analysis

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11/20
Respect lies in text
On Dec 4th: Paper with: (print)
All sentences
Circle 15 words
2 words in a box 1 outside - 5 boxes
Create a sentence per each box using the 3 words
All dichotomies
All felt experiences
PAPER:
My model
Joint model with group
Felt experience is deep thinking

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12/4
Final:
Done collectively, posted in Fishbowl
Use final model and 5 sentences created
Use article sent
3 pages double spaced
Title
Organization as a metaphor
Introduction
2-3 sentences
Set up what reader is going to be reading about
Say article name and a little about it
Then explain the 5 boxes
1st paragraph - intro sentence write out one sentence constructed from hard copy paper
Under the sentence 2 or 3 sentences from the article in our own words
5 of these
2 paragraphs per page- 7 total
Conclusion
2-3 sentences
Out of the 5 which ones were most important