5th Anniversary Post
Five years ago, as part of a deliberate exercise in working through a decades long writer’s block, I wrote a post titled Limnos, and reflections on a life lived “dancing in between” dated 21.3.2021. For reasons far too complex to unpack here, I need to reflect on a life lived “dancing in between” and I […]
DeepSeek: A textbook case of Christensen’s disruptive innovation
On the 10th of January 2025, a hedge fund released an artificial intelligence (AI) app into the wild. By the 27th, the world responded to DeepSeek, as the AI is known, by crashing the value of AI related stocks, creating losses totaling more than a trillion dollars. Its very existence in the market has called […]
Navigating epistemological complexity and plurality
The need to develop competences for navigating epistemological complexity and plurality is one that has remained overlooked within Euro-Western academy. Yet this epistemic task is recognized as a daily practice of lived experience among the majority of non-Westerners and Indigenous Peoples who are themselves educated in modern western science (Reano 2020; Nakata 2007; Yunkaporta 2019; […]
Multidimensional Climate Justice Must Recognize ALL Types of Knowledge Holders
What is interesting in this diagram from Kivimaa et al. (2021:7) from the Finnish Climate Change panel, is the missing component of Indigenous, local, and traditional knowledge from the sphere of Recognition Justice. Why it is interesting is because the authors cite Tribaldos & Kortetmäki (2022) among their references for the concept of justice, who […]
Paradigm change or changing paradigms?
There is yet one leverage point that is even higher than changing a paradigm. That is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to stay flexible, to realize that no paradigm is “true,” that every one, including the one that sweetly shapes your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense […]
Synthesis and gestation
Ceramic artist Johnson Tsang’s works have been able to capture my moods of late, although it must be said that this isn’t a mood so much as it represents what is going on with me right now. After more than a year of gestation, my brain is exploding like a supernova. Interestingly, I won’t say […]
Knowledge production as a process
The sense of knowing that some idea is just around the corner, waiting to be born, but still gestating inarticulately. I will dance today with other’s words and put them together in different ways, as I play around with the inchoate. May the 5th 2023 Has the idea been born? Yes. Do I know yet […]
On Nakata’s Cultural Interface Theory
“The research you do will have the power to label, name, condemn, describe, or prescribe solutions to challenges in former colonized, indigenous peoples and historically oppressed groups. You are encouraged to conduct research without perpetuating self-serving Western research paradigms that construct Western ways of knowing as superior to the Other’s ways of knowing”. Bagele Chilisa. […]
Design’s futures
It feels like a lifetime ago when I would sit late at night pondering the future of design at my keyboard on Mason Street in San Francisco’s Nob Hill. Besides, the wench is dead, I’m tempted to quip. My world changed when I took the deliberate and considered decision to move to the Nordics – […]
On Completing a Journey of Ten Thousand Words
On the day I last posted to the blog – 28th July 2023 – I began work on a 10,000 word research article in response to peer-reviewed acceptance of my abstract submitted back in April for a very important conference of relevance and interest. The deadline for submission is the end of the month, but […]
