What If Project
My friend, colleague, and mentor from the UK, Dr. Joyce Liddle (who will be taking a new position as Associate Professor of Public Policy, Nottingham Policy Centre, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, this spring) sent me this very interesting blog link -
Whatifproject.
Run by Stuart Smith BSc MSc (DIC), his biography says that he is the Director of Consultancy at Wood Holmes Group, and has several years experience of working in environmental, regeneration and strategy development. He is particularly interested in understanding complexity in regeneration and the knowledge sharing processes that are vital to regeneration success. Stuart has pioneered community centric approaches to regeneration and future visioning.
I really like the recent inputs on randomness. Try this:
- Keep a dictionary somewhere where you will normally see it.
- Open the dictionary at a random place and select a random word.
- Does this word generate any ideas?