Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from July 2002

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from July 2002

Connecting for possibilities. (Guest Editorial).(participatory planning and designing in various practical domains)(Editorial)
July 1, 2002... The need for this special issue was felt partly due to the enormous contemporary interest in the so-called participatory methods of planning and designing in various practical domains. The need was also felt due to the gradual emergence of...

Whose house is it? Exploring user participation in the design process of residences. (Research Paper).
July 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Designed spaces should optimally accommodate user needs and support their activities. Direct participation of users in the design process for production of built environments helps to achieve this by reducing informational and...

Participatory planning and design in a protracted conflict situation: applications with citizen peace-building groups in Cyprus. (Research Paper).
July 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION In recent years, especially following the break-up of the former Soviet Union, the world has witnessed a dramatic rise in conflicts that pit ethnic groups against one another, often with tragic results. Conflicts in Bosnia,...

Marking the unmarked: using drama cross-culturally in teacher education in New Zealand. (Research Paper).
July 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION: 4 DECEMBER 2000 The community has come to the meeting house, Wai Puna, in Panguru, a tiny township in the remote north of New Zealand, to celebrate the graduation of a group of its local people as teachers. A group of...

Redesigning the Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA). (Research Paper).
July 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Participative planning is often used to promote organizational change. Although there have been numerous participatory planning initiatives in the past several decades, most of them, according to Allen (1999), are islands of...

The role of Future Search in rural regeneration: process, context and practice. (Research Paper).
July 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION This paper reflects on the experience of a Future Search conference, as designed by Weisbord and Janoff (1995), to encourage the development of community-led regeneration. It was held in the predominantly rural county of Devon...

Investigating the emotional roller-coaster ride: a case study-based assessment of the Future Search Conference design.
July 1, 2002... THE FUTURE SEARCH CONFERENCE: A BRAIN CHILD OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY AND SYSTEMS THINKING New participatory processes for local communities and workplaces have been developed in line with the ideal of the `learning...

Communicative action in practice: Future Search and the pursuit of an open, critical and non-coercive large-group process. (Research Paper).
July 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Can large-group change processes help us to address persistent and divisive social and organizational problems in democratic and forward-looking ways? This paper starts to address this question by reporting on lessons from a...

Futures thinking by middle managers: a neglected necessity. (Research Paper).
July 1, 2002... METHODOLOGY The author is an organization development consultant with 26 years' experience working in a variety of field settings. This impressionistic case study and its analysis are based on his facilitation of a workshop for a...

Social cognition and the participatory planning process. (Researh Paper).
July 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Approaches to management of problems that affect people can be broadly described under two categories. One is adherence to top-down, expert designed projects, and the other is the involvement of people in the analysis of...

Rational Analysis for a Problematic World Revisited: Problem Structuring Methods for Complexity, Uncertainty and Conflict.
July 1, 2002... 2nd edition. Edited by Jonathan Rosenhead and John Mingers. Published by Wiley, Chichester, 2001, 366 pp., ISBN 0 471 49523 9, 22.50 [pounds sterling] The stated purpose of this book is to provide a theoretical and a practical perspective...

Global Citizenship and Social Movements: Creating Transcultural Webs of Meaning for the New Millennium.
July 1, 2002... By Janet J. McIntyre-Mills. Published by Harwood Academic Publishers, Australia, 2000, 192 pp., ISBN 90 5702 590 6, $42.00. The author describes her effort as `development work--theoretical, practical and applied--... to understand the way...

Accountability in Social Research: Issues and Debates.
July 1, 2002... By Norma Romm. Published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2001, 326 pp., ISBN 0 306 4654 7, 31.50 [pounds sterling]. Norma Romm demonstrates through her dialogue on social research that communication (based on a wish to...