‘The Failure Files’ – book on transdisciplinary approaches to failure

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Jewell on February 2, 2010 at 13:19

Chris, not sure if you can edit this and add the book information

Permalink Reply by Jonathan Jewell on February 2, 2010 at 22:04

Please see entry this by Chris Knell who unfortunately has been having some trouble with his system:

The RSA Glory of Failure (GoF) project has been running for two years and has generated some useful insights in that time. These have been captured in several working papers as well in the presentations from the First Failure Colloquium held in London on 15 September 2009. “The Failure Files” captures those insights in an easily accessible format, presenting the main ideas and issues in a way designed to stimulate thought, discussion and action. Experts and practitioners from various professions and industries discuss failure in their area of expertise, presenting illustrative case studies and examples, and highlighting the specific nature of failure in their setting. This book is written in a basic business style, for a general non-academic readership with no assumed prerequisites, previous knowledge or experience. Further details from “The Failure Files” editor, David Hillson.

David is not on Ning, but can be reached at David Hillson

Thanks,
Chris
ILE Theme Lead

Permalink Reply by Roxanne Persaud on February 3, 2010 at 16:19

Jonathan challenged the twittersphere today, Tell me somebody, in less that 140 characters - what are 'The Failure Files'?" My response...

The Failure Files book is a transdisciplinary examination of failure from 10 different perspectives.

Want more? Follow us on twitter @commutiny @Philopolymath

David is now in the Editor's bunker working on the Failure Files. Please direct any offers/questions through me.

Permalink Reply by Jonathan Jewell on February 5, 2010 at 6:04

Some people have asked for some clarification around terms - here goes:

Multidisciplinary - many difference cases, not necessarily linked together - sort of like a collection of short stories
Interdisciplinary - between disciplines, so links are explicitly shown between essentially separate case studies
Transdisciplinary - cutting through themes, our working hypothesis that there are underlying principles and dimensions to failure, that apply regardless of the case presentation involved.

Of the three, we adopt the transdisiplinary approach with the Failure Files beginning with setting out the principles and dimensions and then the content from different disciplines being examined in the light of these.

Any questions, or does that help understand what we are trying to work towards?

Roxanne Persaud said:

Jonathan challenged the twittersphere today, Tell me somebody, in less that 140 characters - what are 'The Failure Files'?" My response...

The Failure Files book is a transdisciplinary examination of failure from 10 different perspectives.

Want more? Follow us on twitter @commutiny @Philopolymath

David is now in the Editor's bunker working on the Failure Files. Please direct any offers/questions through me.

Permalink Reply by Christopher Knell on February 8, 2010 at 13:41

Sorry about that, some IT problems meant the description didn't go up straight away.

Im currently working on the first draft of the life events failure chapter which I am very passionate about.

Permalink Reply by Jonathan Jewell on March 4, 2010 at 11:04

Chris, how is the chapter on Individual Life Events coming along? I wonder if you could give a taster on what to expect?

Christopher Knell said:

Sorry about that, some IT problems meant the description didn't go up straight away.

Im currently working on the first draft of the life events failure chapter which I am very passionate about.

Permalink Reply by Sue Thomas on March 6, 2010 at 7:44

Hi, I've come late to this discussion but would like to flag up that I am based in the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University, which operates at the intersection between faculties and where failure of communication between disciplines is taken as a given which just requires a workaround :)

I look forward to seeing the book when it's ready. It sounds like a very exciting project.

Permalink Reply by Jonathan Jewell on March 9, 2010 at 6:44

That's a really interesting idea, ie. working at the intersection. Are there other places you know of that do things that way?

I am thinking about how that works - it sounds like an interdisciplinary group looking at the links between different groups and their activities.

Jonathan

Sue Thomas said:

Hi, I've come late to this discussion but would like to flag up that I am based in the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University, which operates at the intersection between faculties and where failure of communication between disciplines is taken as a given which just requires a workaround :)

I look forward to seeing the book when it's ready. It sounds like a very exciting project.

Permalink Reply by Esmee Wilcox on January 24, 2011 at 8:09

The Glory of Failure comes to Ipswich on 8 March.

Be great if you and others could make it - open invitation.

 

Esmee

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