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No Straight Lines: making sense of a non linear world

“Economic transactions and markets have warped perceptions to such a degree that most people fail to see what is important in life, even when it’s right in front of them. Alan Moore‘s ‘No Straight Lines’ offers a vision that is at once more humane, more forward-thinking, and more realistic” – Howard Rheingold

So what is No Straight Lines all about?

We are at the edge of the adaptive range of our industrial world. At the edge, because that world, our world is being overwhelmed by a trilemma of social, organisational and economic complexity. We are in transit from a linear world to a non-linear one. Non-linear because it is for all of us socially, organisationally and economically ambiguous, confusing and worrying. Consequently we are faced with an increasingly pressing and urgent problem, WHAT COMES NEXT? And also we are therefore presented with a design challenge: HOW do we create better societies, more able organisations and, more vibrant and equitable economies relevant to the world we live in today? No Straight Lines presents a new logic and inspiring plea for a more human centric world that describes an entirely new way for true social, economic and organisational innovation to happen.

Topics within No Straight Lines:

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The trilemma of our current age: social, organisational and economic complexity

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Why non-linearity is causing a comprehensive restructuring of society at large – breaking old models of organisation

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Understanding the complexy relationship between identity, community, communication, technology and its impact on everything

that we call social

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Society re-negotiating the power relationships of how we want to live our lives, what we make, who we make it with, how we make money, how we govern ourselves, and how we educate our young

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The changing relationship between the individual, the organisation and the state

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Large scale human participatory systems and communications media the connective tissue for society

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The importance of place, and situated communities

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Language and literacy for a non-linear world

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Designing for a better world

WHAT DOES NEXT LOOK LIKE?

Designing organisations for a non-linear world

Designing economic systems for a nonlinear world

Designing business for a non-linear world

This presentation, which has been enthusiastically received sxsw #nostraightlines , HP Labs Incubate 2.0 HP Silicon Valley, Intersections – How Design Thinking can deliver a more sustainable world – Dott Cornwall+The Design Council Eden project Cornwall, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs Greece, The British Embassy Mexico). Throughout Latin America in 2010 sponsored by Blackberry to a combined audience of 10,000 people. And to many senior executives of large organisations struggling to deal with a more complex and challenging world. In 2011 Alan toured extensively thought Europe and Asia.