"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Effective policy management is crucial in participatory and integrated planning processes, ensuring that the strategic frameworks guiding development projects align with both local regulations and broader goals. This involves not only understanding and navigating existing policy landscapes but also actively shaping and adapting policies to...
Any good workshop starts with one simple question: is the workshop needed and would it be beneficial? The “Enabling Inclusive Cities” toolkit developed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) provides an invaluable framework to explore the needs of specific populations or regions through two basic pillars:...
The Three Horizons Model is a strategic framework that aids organizations in managing the present while preparing for future opportunities and challenges. Originally developed by Mehrdad Baghai, Stephen Coley, and David White in their book The Alchemy of Growth (1999), the theory provides a structured...
I don't know who picks acronyms for Agile frameworks, but I know I'd like to keep my distance from them. Anyway, in my effort to propose methods and techniques that aren't old enough to drink, today I'd like to show you these three frameworks, all born...
The theory of Organizational Improvisation focuses on responsive processes and how understanding them provides an alternative to the idea of an opposition between "strong" (endogenous) and "weak" (exogenous) ways of thinking about processes in human action. This dichotomy originally related to how actions are initiated and...
One of the key topics of my upcoming class at Autodesk University revolves around Organisational Improvisation. I already talked about it on the blog here, back from the 2021 International LEGO Serious Play Conference in Billund, but today's let's dive a bit into the concept,...
...and I don't mean it metaphorically; I mean it literally. I recently discovered that many young artists either struggle with the rules and concepts of perspective or find that boring, as they're more oriented towards character and creature design, so here's a list of games...
Yesterday, we saw 12 video games that teach you how to code, but what if you're dealing with people who need a motivational boost with a foundational concept like math? Well, look no more. Here's a selection of 8+1 games that might do the trick. 1....
Yesterday we saw how I prefer game thinking to create new processes, if compared to the mere gamification of an existing process, and quoted some examples. Today let's make a focus at a specific category, which is games that teach you how to code. Here's my...
2. Motivational Aspects Motivation is at the heart of both gamification and game thinking, yet the way each approach taps into user motivation is fundamentally different: while both aim to encourage user engagement, they do so by leveraging different types of motivation, as gamification primarily targets...
