Tag: practice

Bookmarked Day rhythm (by K.Q. Dreger)

Interesting description of K.Q. Dreger’s day. It’s always fascinating to read how people really, not theoretically, go through their day. In this one some interesting little choices to see if they would help my own practice. Such as making your calendar appear fuller by blocking time for yourself. I usually avoid using my calendar like that, only put in ‘hard’ appointments with others. But it at times makes it appear to colleagues I have ample time for meetings, and so potentially pushes things to the bottom of my list while really deserving of much more priority.

Visually, my calendar is stuffed. But a third of those chunky boxes are meetings with myself. Margin time, at least 1-2 hours every single day.

K.Q. Dreger

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This reads like a design approach for institutions, for what I call Networked Agency:

This is not the book to convince you that the world
is changing and our systems are currently under
stress. The purpose here is to begin codifying the
practises of innovators who are consciously rethinking
institutions to better meet the challenges of
today. We describe this as stewardship: the art of
getting things done amidst a complex and dynamic
context. Stewardship is a core ability for agents of
change when many minds are involved in conceiving a
course of action, and many hands in accomplishing it.

The Helsinki Design Lab (HDL) wrote this already in 2013, a certain addition to my summer reading list: Legible Practices.
The HDL was in operation from 2008-2013, and maintains their archive on-line under a Creative Commons license (BY-SA). There’s more stuff there to read through, on using projects as probes, on hiring, and how openness isn’t enough to scale.


image Helsinki Design Lab, CC-BY-SA