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.

Guides

What I hand over

A domain page argues a position. A guide is the operable form of one — numbered, sourced, and made to be worked from rather than agreed with. Each is a single file that reads as a document and presents as a deck.

3 more are on the list, one for each of the remaining domains.

All guides

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
Toolkit  ·  provisional — The current shape of the toolkit
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