Jack/Zen
A zen perspective on how we think about the future
Jack Ricchiuto is a nationally acclaimed designer and author of 9 books. His website is DesigningLife.com
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Growing regions
Working today in New York with two brilliant designers in the civic space, working on how to engage people in regional thrivancy. As a design question, it turns out to be both a complex and manageable question with lots of moving parts.
First, everyone in any county in the country lives in a slightly different "region" because every county places themselves at the center of their regional universe. A county three counties away from ours will draw their "region" with some overlap to how we draw ours. So the question of "how to grow the region" must be preceded by "whose region are we starting with?"
Then we get to questions like, if a region is an ecosystem of networks and communities, can any single entity or individual be "in charge" of the process the way a corporate executive could be in charge of controlling their corporation? To those of us in the social network science space, this question brings on great laughter because it represents incredible network illiteracy.
So yes, if no one can be in charge of network growth, how is it possible?
The short answer: everyone who wants to fund anything tithes 10% into the investment of growing network weavers. Period.
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