Publications

Having My Cake and Eating It Too: Learning through Distance and Interdependence, by Greg Van Alstyne In Ensemble ailleurs — Together Elsewhere, ed. Louise Poissant, PierreTremblay doi:10.1353/book.2035

by Antony Upward & Stephen N. Davies In Wunder T. (eds) Rethinking Strategic Management. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance Part of the CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance book series (CSEG) from Springer, Cham

To support design process for positive 
change-making, leading to flourishing, how might we lead systemic design to more self-awareness, accountability, maturity? In this peer-reviewed paper we call for systemic design to 
acquire more psychology, sociology, ethics. By Greg Van Alstyne, Carl Skelton & Sylvia Nan Cheng Presented in RSD7: Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium 2018, Turin, Italy

What is the central challenge facing government institutions and societies in coming decades? We define this challenge as Digital Era Governance, where information knows few boundaries, power is dispersed, and authority and accountability need to be re-conceived. The accompanying information graphic map is a work in progress, a visualization serving to elicit and represent perspectives, insights, issues, patterns of change, shifting values and norms associated with this transformation. 

The first peer reviewed article based on the graduate thesis by Antony Upward, the work that launched the sLab Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group, is now published in a special issue on Business Models for Sustainability of the highly ranked management journal Organization & Environment.

“So, what is information? And why is it such an enormously difficult question to answer with any clarity and thoroughness? It is an ambitious book that sets out to answer this question, much less present an elaborate theory of how it has morphed into a seemingly independent universe of meanings, rituals, art-forms, values, and technologies since our ancestors first learned to talk. Who would attempt such a challenge?” —from the Foreword by Terrence Deacon

In this paper published by Austria-UK media journal TripleC, we propose a platform for a new form of the book, the sBook, which is a combination of the codex book and the e-book. The sBook combines the advantages of these two formats of the book as well as some additional features that we have designed for this new hybrid book.

The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge challenges to policy making, decision making and system design. In Design for Care, sLab researcher Peter Jones shows how service and information designers can work with practice professionals and patients/advocates to make a positive difference in healthcare. Jones and his contributors provide compelling healthcare design and information issues, integrated by representative case studies, to help designers, managers, students and teachers better understand the field

2020 Media Futures is a multi-industry strategic foresight project designed to understand and envision what media may look like in the year 2020; what kind of cross-platform Internet environment may shape our media and entertainment in the coming decade; and how our firms and organizations can take action today toward capturing and maintaining positions of national and international leadership.

Social and political movements have historically relied on mass media and public assembly to inform and recruit. The emergence of affordable communications in general and mobile communications in particular is bringing radical change to the balance of power. This chapter explores some of these changes and suggests directions for future research in this area.