Reiterating Realms of Innovation
Reworking the ideas from earlier this week, this framework illustration adapts the ‘Realms and Filters’ that i shared yesterday. Instead of showing them in two rings, i am representing them on one plane.
This work is really just conceptual right now: incomplete, and i am feeling no real need to complete it. It’s an early way to juggle a number of disparate ideas in my head.
There is the notion of ‘frames’ of understanding: the idea that what we know, our intact mental landscape, both optimises us, and limits us – hence the idea that one aspect of innovation is to fracture the frames.
There is the idea of occlusion: that what we know may actively hinder us understanding or conceptualising the new – trapped by existing knowledge.
There is the idea of the unknowable – which i have iterated here to be that which we cannot discover through existing tools or methods – so not unknowable at all, but unknowable to us until or unless we fracture something else.
Somehow this will tie back into the other work shared earlier in the week: which considers?three perspectives on ‘how’ we innovate. I have not attempted yet to reconcile the two pieces into one view.
Independent Consultant. Respectfully acknowledging I live and work on the traditional lands of the Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation. This land was never ceded.
3 年I have just started following, thank you so much for sharing your thinking so freely - as a visual thinker I really appreciate the beauty of the frameworks!