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Dialogue and Designing Our Future: Conversation as Culture Creating and Consciousness Evolving
In this chapter, first, we begin with an exploration of the meaning of dialogue. Then, we examine the relationship of conversation to culture creating and consciousness evolving within society. Dialogue is int...
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The Power Of Dialogue In Social Systems
The primary challenge to global society, as we pass the threshold of a new millennium, is to transform existing social systems, and therefore American society, in such ways as to embody a more inclusive, democ...
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Creating our Shared Future Reflections on Conscious Evolution of Society
In this closing chapter, first, I briefly review the purpose of this work and highlight the learning experience offered in the chapters of this compendium. Then, I explore evolutionary systems as future creati...
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Design Conversation: Future Building and Consciousness Evolving
In this opening chapter, first, I review the purpose of this Compendium and provide an overview of the learning journey presented by the editors and authors. The chapter is presented in two parts. Part I begins w...
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Conversation as an Activity System: The Mediational Role of Discourse in Systems Design
Systems design as Banathy (1996, 2000) explains, is largely communicative in nature, and depends on design and dialogical discourse as semiotic tools for mediation within the cognitive, cultural, and creative ...