Acuity Design

Learn the Art of Engaging and Empowering Participants with Acuity Design Are you ready to transform the way you interact with museum visitors? Acuity Design is proud to present a professional course designed to help you master focus group facilitation, ensuring your museum garners the most valuable insights from its visitors. What You’ll Learn Why […]

Just while sitting in a meeting, I do realise that many people are thinking in terms of outputs and formats that are quite different. I think in diagrams and processes. How we map out the next steps and how we share ideas of relationships of elements. Slides and maps. I know however, that other people […]

I’ve been talking about the problem of Normal for several years. Go to PostNormal to read about the talks and workshops I do. The diagram above is just a new one to try and explain the problems of Normal and the benefits of Diversity. One point, one perspective There is a particular problem in product […]

Reading about the EU’s Preparedness advice and it’s interesting how it links to some work I’m helping out with on community LifeHouses. There has been a shift in reactions to the climate crisis to collapse awareness. That prepping is necessary at political and communal levels. This diagram came out of talking to activists in Oxfordshire […]

In the complex world of navigation and exploration, we often get caught up in the intricacies of maps and detailed plans. But what if the true essence of finding our way lies not in meticulously drawn routes, but in the power of human connection? The ABCD of Wayfinding: Rethinking Navigation Traditional wayfinding theory focuses on […]

I am just back from Leeds. I was there for a 2 day Storytelling Lab for organisations working with refugees. It was very good and the power of people who had been thru deep horrors was extraordinary. However, this post is not about that. It’s about some of the things I saw and some ideas […]

I’m doing some volunteer work on a local climate crisis project. The project wants to build a Lifehouse. A place where people can come together and share resources during climate collapse-related loss of civic society and services. What we talked about this week was Impact Mapping. How to start a project and try and understand […]

Just looking for synonyms for Resilience for a community project. Resilience as a lost word The word Resilience has been lost to the corporate training idea of providing skills to individuals to cope with the problems they encounter. This is a terrible meaning. Resilience should be more about systemic and organisational change to eliminate those […]

Rather than avoiding the people pressing copies of The Light onto Saturday shoppers in Stroud, I decided to go up and take one. The Light is a conspiracy theory newspaper which is known to be funded by right wingers. It’s in the same cognitive twist zone as yoga/natural food fanatics who became right wingers during […]

I noticed a design conference had an open call for talks this week and this is what I wrote as an application. Let’s Get Serious For the last decade, ideas of play and gamification have been prevalent in the design of services and workshops. That playfulness and fun were the methods of engaging and enabling […]