Jen Briselli & Kyle Godbey: Participatory Design & Complexity Science 2

Continuing the Conversation

We're so happy that Jen & Kyle are back for Round 2 of their exploration of participatory design and complexity. We'll let them describe this session:

Back in September, we ran an experiment in the Complexity Lounge. We invited an open conversation about what it really looks like to engage with complexity in the messy, real-world day-to-day practice: the mundane challenges, tensions, and small wins that don’t always make it into case studies or frameworks. We barely scratched the surface (or the itch)!

Now we're back to continue that discussion. Following our September session, Kyle and Jen reflected on the questions and themes that emerged and recorded a few unscripted chats, digging deeper into those stories. We encourage you to check them out here, and then join us again for a second round to explore and compare notes from the field.

This session will be a mix of conversation, Q&A, and small-group breakouts. We’ll share a few thoughts of our own, invite challenges, requests, and stories from the audience, and explore what’s showing up in your own practices.

Join if you’d like to:

• Reflect on and react to the first session, or our recorded conversations
• Share your own stories or ask deeper questions
• Connect with other practitioners applying complexity science to their work

No slides, no presentations; just a group of folks interested in learning together, one story at a time.

Bios:
Jen Briselli is a strategist, designer, researcher, and educator who helps orgs realize the transformative potential of risky play and transdisciplinary collaboration. Driven by a deep curiosity to find the hidden patterns (and anomalies) across disparate domains, and the desire to empower other humans with these insights, Jen helps co-create services, experiences, and conditions that enable people to live well—on their own terms. As co-founder of Topology, a systems-oriented experience strategy firm, she's especially into creating safe spaces for dangerous thinking.

Kyle Godbey is an ex-sound designer and recovering process engineer, currently working as a service designer facilitating methods based on complexity science, sense-making, and narrative research. He has worked in the darkest corners of organizations like Capital One, Circuit City, the U.S. Department of State, Home Depot, IBM, and Labcorp. He is a maker of messes and loud noises, tireless interrogator, abstract cartographer, people weaver, and an instigator.

Together, Jen and Kyle facilitate the Sense Maker's Community of Practice which makes space for practitioners with resonant curiosity to support each other on their journey, wherever that's taking them.

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This event will be recorded. The event link will be published on meetup.com 1 hour prior.

Please note the time slot- this is an afternoon event for those of you on EST (12:00 pm to 2:00 pm).