Dialogue as a Collective Means of Design Conversation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jenlink, Patrick M. (Editor), Banathy, Bela H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Business.; Management science.; Organization.; Planning.; Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Medical research.; Sociology.; Quality of life.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Quality of Life Research.; Philosophy of Technology.; Business and Management, general.

Dialogue as a Collective Means of Design Conversation is the second volume edited by Patrick M. Jenlink and Bela H. Banathy to offer a cross-disciplinary approach to examining dialogue as a communicative medium. In this Compendium, the contributing authors set forth their ideas, experiences, and per...

Table of Contents:

• Design Conversation: Future Building and Consciousness Evolving
• Design Conversation
• The Conversation Movement
• Design Communication: Systems, Service, Conspiracy, and Leaderships
• The Power Of Dialogue In Social Systems
• Perspectives of Desgin Conversation
• Searching Together: Approaches, Methods, and Tools
• Conversation: Creating a Living Metaphor
• Appreciative Inquiry as Conversation
• Rights and Responsibilities in Conversation Practice
• Transcultural Communications: Theory and Practice
• The Critical Role of Dialogue in Emancipatory Systems Design
• Modalities of Design Conversation
• Dialogue and Designing Our Future: Conversation as Culture Creating and Consciousness Evolving
• The Making of a New Culture Learning Conversations and Design Conversations in Social Evolution
• The Cogniscope™ Lessons Learned in the Arena
• Narrative Story as Discourse in Systems Design
• Conversation as an Activity System: The Mediational Role of Discourse in Systems Design
• Practical Applications of Design Conversation
• The North End Agora: Design Conversation at the Neighborhood Level
• Conversation as the Communication Method of Choice: Designing New Agoras for the 21st Century
• A Post-Formal Intervention Strategy: The Case of the Texas Educational Model
• The Experiences of Long-Term Practitioners of Bohm’s Dialogue
• Reflections on Creating the Future
• Creating our Shared Future Reflections on Conscious Evolution of Society.