Gerald Ajam

Professional

Structure teaches, whether or not anyone designed it to.

A room, an interface, and a set of rules all shape behaviour before anyone intends them to. My work is about doing that deliberately: investigating how spatial design, technology, and media come together, and translating what holds up into something a school or a team can actually use. What follows is organised by what I work on and how I think about it, rather than by project — the principle travels further than the artefact does.

What I’m building

Three ways of thinking that belong in the same hand.

Futuring, complexity, and ways of thinking are usually taught separately, by different people, to different audiences, using incompatible vocabulary. That is a problem, because the situations educators face need all three at once. I am working on bringing them together into one coherent toolkit — few enough moves to be learnable, structured enough to be teachable, and honest about where each way of thinking stops being useful.

Read the toolkit
FUTURINGCOMPLEXITYTHINKINGthe situation
Fig 02 — Toolkit  ·  provisional — The current shape of the toolkit, for FIG 02
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