Complexity by Design Masterclass
July 22, Brooklyn
The systems we care about- organizations, markets, cultures, the people in the room you’re sitting in- were not designed. They emerge, becoming and responding to the openness of the world they’re connected to.
Emergence is the opposite of design, but it is not a problem to be solved; it is an opportunity to learn and sense subjectivity rather than ignore it.
On July 22, I’m holding a masterclass at Index Greenpoint. We won’t practice controlling complexity because that can’t be done. Instead, we’ll develop the skills to read and engage with it: identifying emergence, scale, and self-organization. The muscle to remain open and resilient when faced with confusion — recognizing those moments as the leading edge of creativity, not its failure.
You’ll leave with a working distinction between complicated and complex, frameworks for reading the systems you lead, a new relationship to confusion, and leadership tools for designing inside systems you can’t control.
If you make, lead, or are responsible for outcomes within something larger than yourself–designer, strategist, founder, team lead, creative director–I would love to have you in the room.
Nitzan Hermon designed and teaches the first complexity design course at The New School, writes Complexity Design at Being in Space, and has visited the Santa Fe Institute, where complexity science began.
Complexity by Design
Wednesday, July 22, 6:00–7:30 PM EDT
Index Greenpoint, 698 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn
https://luma.com/complexity-design
Early-bird code 75XVO3 works until July 15.