[Ci4cg-announce] Please take a look... The Green New Deal is the Real Deal

[Helene Finidori]

 Hi Doug,
Nice to hear from you! Happy new year. 
Were you at the Plop conference in Ottawa? I unfortunately had to cancel because of health issues.
I would love to read your paper on the Green New Deal. And I am also interested in the paper on wicked  problems, especially if there are technology solutions involved. This is a topic I have been researching for a while. We have talked about it in the past, I also met Aldo for a project on Patterns that Connect. I'm now engaged in a PhD research on Pattern Literacy and how it can support systems literacy and system intervention -a philosophy / theoretical framework-, the challenge being to bridge the gap between fragmented knowledge and language -both in kind and in perspective-, and the increasing intricacy of emergent 'reality' at various levels and scales. I'm particularly interested to document in my thesis technologies that can assist in this matter. I have laid out lots of 'requirements' -:P- but still have not found what I believe would be needed. But lots of progress certainly has beenmade since I was more  actively searching...

All my work is available on my Academia.com page. In particular: 
Towards a Fourth Generation Pattern Language: Patterns as Epistemic Threads for Systemic Orientation (Purplsoc 2015) Patterns that Connect: Exploring The Potential of Patterns and Pattern Languages in Systemic Interventions Towards Realizing Sustainable Futures. (ISSS2016)Configuring Patterns and Pattern Languages for Systemic Inquiry and Design (Purplsoc 2018).
I'll be in LA for a conference at the end of January, before I go back to France for good end of March. Where are you currently based? Would love to catch up!
BestHelene



    On Thursday, January 9, 2020, 9:34:57 PM EST, Doug Schuler <douglas at publicsphereproject.org> wrote:  
 
 Happy New Year!   We hope...  

As some of you know I've been working on an article tentatively called "The Green New Deal is the Real Deal." I'm now in the process of getting feedback on the paper. 

Please let me know if you think you might even be the tiniest bit interested and I'll send you a copy!

The paper makes the case that patterns and pattern languages could be very useful for helping to loosely coordinate a big Green New Deal meta-project working across various boundaries that includes state and non-state actors, small and large actors, formal and informal actors. I suspect that this sort of focus is critical — and that the pattern language approach could help supply this. 

If you're not familiar with the topics your feedback might be even more useful since I've included background information on the basic concepts.

Thanks so much for considering this!

— Doug

PS. Aldo de Moor and Justin Smith and I are working on a more ambitious piece called (tentatively) "Can Pattern Languages Help Us Address Wicked Problems? A conceptual framework based on patterns and pattern languages" in which we lay out ideas for helping to make the use of patterns and pattern languages generally more accessible, useful, and widely known. The idea is that this current paper can help pave the way to approaching the "wicked problems" paper. 


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