Learning culture
“Culture is a verb.” Rowen White, Seed Keeper, activist and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne If you work in learning and want to develop ‘learning culture’, how are you creating conditions suitable for growth?
“Culture is a verb.” Rowen White, Seed Keeper, activist and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne If you work in learning and want to develop ‘learning culture’, how are you creating conditions suitable for growth?
There was an interesting paper I saw last week about what impact of COVID-19 had on the physical learning spaces of art and design students. There was a telling line near the end: …a return home is always welcome and so it is with a return to physical studios. Creativity and the Trauma of COVID-19:… Read More Study-o
The world culture comes from the Latin cultus, which can be translated as ‘care’ or ‘cultivation’ but also ‘worship’. Rehn, Alf. Innovation for the Fatigued (Kogan Page Inspire) (p. 59). Kogan Page. Kindle Edition. You have a learning culture in your organisation. Are you expecting your employees to care or to worship learning within your… Read More Cult of worship
I saw this rather brilliant video and accompanying tweet the other day: How do you square the circle that this video, with urban vibes fits perfectly in one store, but would be completely wrong elsewhere? Culture isn’t what you make it to be, it’s what the people working at your organisation want it to be… Read More Organisational culture
I’ve been talking about culture with people this week and something has emerged. You can describe it, you can illustrate it, you can explain what it is and how it might be, but the only way to understand it is to experience it. it’s interesting to note that by experiencing it, you’re also forming and… Read More The culture of experience