Exploring other perspectives on the world we live and learn in
At a time when certain right-wing and religious factions not to mention some major commercial players are leading an all-out attack on science, it may seem unwise to raise questions about the validity of scientific results. Positions are politicised and polarised and nuance has little place in public debate. Yet it is only with a nuanced approach that the situation can be understood sufficiently to take suitable measures.…
The following text has been adapted from and inspired by part of a report written within the PALETTE project.
Evaluation helps handle complexity in complex situations by providing provisional stabilities that assist decision-making processes and can serve to combat entropy by enabling the emergence of a simpler order from complexity, albeit temporarily.
Understanding and improving evaluation in complex situations requires extending the notion of evaluation to include moments of evaluation, that is to say, embedded evaluative processes not necessarily carried out by evaluation experts.…
Complexity and the Networked Society – In their book “The New Alliance” Isabelle Stengers and Ilya Prigogine write “It is no longer stable situations or permanency that interest us, but rather evolutions, crises and instabilities“… (read more)
Connected Magazine, Dec. 8th, 1998. …
Belonging and being excluded – What does belonging imply? And being excluded? Is not the unachievable aim of universal access bound to produce exclusion… (read more)
Connected Magazine, May. 14th, 1997.
Desire and Exclusion. The Never Ending Quest for Universal Access – The more we insist on the necessity of universal access, the greater the feeling of exclusion in those who don’t have it, even if they don’t need it… (read more)
Connected Magazine, May 15th, 2000.…