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 support the participatory approach. By fostering collaboration between institutions, stakeholders, […]
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: policy and planning, and a sectoral assessment on the […]
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 approach to balancing short-term goals with long-term innovation and emphasizes […]
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 around 2011. What do they have in common? They’re […]
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 controlled and stemmed from cognitive psychology and neuroscience: Strong […]
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, its origin and why is it relevant for planning. When […]
…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 that use either perspective or axonometric representation as a really […]
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. DragonBox DragonBox is an award-winning series of educational math […]
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 personal list of favourites. 1. CodeMonkey CodeMonkey is an […]
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 extrinsic motivation, while game thinking focuses on intrinsic motivation. […]