Online Colloquium N° 44: Uncertainment Lounge: OR In urgent times, let's slow down!

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Lisa Norton, Practices of 
Formerly Professor of Design Leadership, School of Design Strategies, The New School, Parsons

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“The times are urgent; let us slow down.” (Bayo Akomolafe)

We are living through an inflection point. A time that has been called a “time
between worlds.” (Zak Stein)

Since March of 2020, Uncertainty Lab has been a self-organized, virtual pilot with no agenda other than acknowledging, witnessing and staying curious about our uncertainties. Is it meta-cognitive? Yes, but if we say it this way, the mind tends to go into logical search mode, orienting toward certainty and closure.

If liminal times require non-linear and resilient ways of being, how might collective practices of ‘uncertainment’ help us build capacity to participate with ambiguity?
We’re flipping the script on our usual ways of being, and asking how might we orient toward uncertainty in a curious, friendly way?
Practices of ‘uncertainment’ invite us to abide together in the generative tension of ambiguity without collapsing into shallow consensus or expert stances.

Shortbio
Prof. Lisa Norton

Lisa Norton is an educator and guide with a experience in fine art and design at scales ranging from local vernacular craft practices to sculpture, and design strategy for systems change. She hosts Uncertainment Lounge, a social-emotional learning context for developing collective negative capability, humility, and trust. She is also prototyping, Design Being, a psychological pattern language for designers aiming to bridge the gaps between our capabilities and our impact and influence.

Previously she served as Professor of Design Leadership and Associate Dean of the School of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design, Professor in Designed Objects, Metalsmithing and Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Professional affiliations include the  International Consortium of Integral Scholars, the Deliberately Developmental Practitioner Network, The Heterodox Academy, and The Studio at the Edge of the World.

Her writings have appeared in Design Philosophy Politics, Integral Leadership Review, Design Issues, Craft Culture, Art Asia Pacific, and Yishu: a journal of contemporary Chinese Art.