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Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 18 Dec 2017
Edition-112 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About structure driving culture, city/infrastructure, sharing spaces, ownership. An excellent reflection by Dan Hill: https://medium.com/butwhatwasthequestion/the-battle-for-the-infrastructure-of-everyday-life-6c9b0572e57f About the promise of blockchain. Well balanced manifesto by Don Tapscott: http://dontapscott.com/2017/12/blockchain-research-institute-manifesto-realizing-new-promise-digital-economy/ About spaces making people happy and… Read more
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Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 11 Dec 2017
Edition-111 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About the scary financial future of the millennial generation: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/ About Amazon being a machine to make a machine: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/12/12/the-amazon-machine About peer-pressure and transparency in self-organisation: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/musings-social-density-niels-pflaeging/ About frictionless and/or minimalist design. A… Read more
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Trend-5: Structure drives everything
This trend is part of my five trends for human advancement. For an overview and background, check here: Kanaal Site – Axel Vervoordt – Wijnegem, Antwerp Deeply influenced by the work of Robert Fritz on structural conflict and structural tension, and that structure drives everything, I have become dissatisfied by the responsive reaction in many… Read more
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Trend-4: Everything important has to do Aesthetic, Moral and Spiritual advancement
This trend is part of my five trends for human advancement. For an overview and background, check here: During my sabbatical, I had the luxury of visiting many art related expositions and retrospectives. I have been particularly struck by the beauty ànd the intensity of work from artists like Dries Van Noten (celebrated Belgian fashion… Read more
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Trend-3: Coherence of narrative, motives, and governance
This trend is part of my five trends for human advancement. For an overview and background, check here: As described in trend-2, patrimony is stored memory of the underlying structure of an organisation. Culture as recorded know-how. To advance humanistic organisations we need to advance this structure. Structure is more than organisational structure like hierarchies… Read more
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Trend-1: High quality connections
This trend is part of my five trends for human advancement. For an overview and background, check here: Calm containers – Petervan Productions 2017 Any change or advancement happens between human beings, in the relationship, in the connection and exchange. The quality of our human connections is indicative of the quality of emerging change. But… Read more
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Artistic Interventions – Interruptions – Provocations
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