the flowering of innovation

…In these slides I am seeking ways to illustrate the connections between the journeys of what I have called the flower of innovation of Latour in Pandora’s Hope (he calls this the reality of science)

…with the connections into the landscape

…for this is what happens with innovation the doing of it changes the world…creating more than what is on the surface, the idea ‘pops-up’ elsewhere…(nature)

the flowering of innovation

There are three series of 8 images in this slideshow, these re-present a continuing theme that is ‘running’ on the edge of my mind, this may be what Johnson in Where great ideas come from calls a ‘slow hunch’…it has yet to emerge in all its fullness.

the flowering of innovation

1st series of images

…the flower of innovation opening up through the journeys (mobilisation of instruments & conceptualisations of the world, alliance building, engaging with public – balancing of opinion-social acceptance, autonomisation & institutionalisation) with the emergent idea/solution

…of course, it may all dissipate in an instant…

2nd series of images

…inward into the innovation the detailed connections that are made shown by the circles and the further connections between these via the lines*

…these circles with graded yellow re-present the ontological connection that is necessary to get someone(s) or something(s) to shift to take into account this new ‘thing’

…the last image shows the connecting grid with the dots that may be left even if the idea itself does not persist. * Thanks to David Young, Ron Borland, and Ken Coghill’s paper “An Actor-Network Theory Analysis of Policy Innovation for Smoke-Free Places: Understanding Change in Complex Systems” for this idea

3rd series of images

…outward by digging deeper through the roots and rhizomic connections into the world

…separate ideas ‘springing up’ remotely. …the eighth image in this series shows

these new ‘things’ surviving on their own without aid of the original

…lastly moving from the plan view to a section view

Image from rhizomesystems.com