Co-Design, Volume I

Introduction

Why Should You Read This Book?

Books about learning are rarely best sellers. They often belong with specialist text books for students, guides for teacher training, and manuals for professional educators. Here we contend that learning is fundamentally what organizing can, and should, be designed for in complex systems. Learning provides the underlying energy for creativity, innovation, social relationships, and human well-being. Within complex systems, participatory approaches to learning enable us to flourish in ways that conventional approaches to managing and organizing do not deliver.

The aim of the book is to offer “practical ideas.” We all carry ideas about learning. These can be described variously as common sense, theories, ...