The platform organization

recombining strategies, structures, and surprises

pp. 134-158

in: Chrisanthi Avgerou, Lanzara, Leslie Willcocks, Bricolage, care and information, Berlin, Springer, 2009

Abstract

Men and women confronting change are never fully prepared for the demands of the moment, but they are strengthened to meet uncertainty if they can claim a history of improvisation and a habit of reflection … Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making shift and making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with pattern, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity. (Mary C. Bateson)When the artists and sculptors I know work, there's a sort of free play idea. You try things; you experiment. It's kind of naive and childish, it's like kids in a playpen. Scientists work that way too — for example genetic scientists that I have been involved with seem to work similarly. It's kind of like throwing things out and then following the ideas, rather than predicting where you"re going to go. (Frank O, Gehry)