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I seem to be going down a rabbit hole prompted by Josie Gibson’s invitation to present to the Catalyst-FX Network.  We settled on the title “A Peek “Under-the-hood” of the Complex Systems Frameworks Collection”, and now I am trawling through my list or presentations to create an archive.  I’m hoping to put together a story … Read more

I’ve been thinking about writing this reflection for some time.  In some ways it became the reason why I should write a blog for the website in the first place.  If you have read my earliest posts, you will know I’ve dragged my heels a lot.  But the idea of having a place to talk … Read more

Note: This entry was borrowed from my personal Reconciliation Journal. It has been a busy week getting ready to add some new content to this Complex Systems Frameworks Collection.  In my spare time or while pulling weeds in the garden, I find myself thinking a lot about the idea of an Indigenous collection to help … Read more

It feels like my quest to figure out how to include an Indigenous Frameworks mini-collection into this collection has just gone through a phase transition.  For years I have been reaching out from my colonial paradigm to try to get other academics to talk with me.  Now through a relational approach, conversations have started to happen and I am beginning to see some pathways to building this mini-collection.

It feels like my quest to figure out how to include an Indigenous Frameworks mini-collection into this collection has just gone through a phase transition.  For years I have been reaching out from my colonial paradigm to try to get other academics to talk with me.  Now through a relational approach, conversations have started to happen and I am beginning to see some pathways to building this mini-collection.

So I’ve now gone through the chapter in Carlos’s book on slower is faster in an effort to find some ideas for images.  I abstracted his examples into a table…

I’ve started thinking about how to build new frameworks for the collection.  After hearing talks by Mark Cabaj and Carlos Gershenshon I got to thinking about how to represent ideas about tensions and balance in complex systems in the frameworks collection.  I got Mark, Carlos and Sam on a zoom call and we ideated about images based on their work.

I’ve been promising myself I would start doing some “blogging” related to the Collection.  I’ve never been big on this idea as I don’t want to have to write on any schedule, but I have managed to write a “reflective journal” as a relational approach to reconciliation.  It came from a dislike of doing performative land acknowledgements.