brittney cooper

25 April

On 25 April 2015

In arouse SOLIDARITY, cultivate TRANSFORMATION

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Playing Games with the Lives of Poor People | Analysis from Brittney Cooper

This offers excellent critique of part of the design of the In Our Neighbors Shoes event in March 2015. As a part of the service learning, 8th graders participated in a simulation that was not quite as relational as it could and should have been and skirted too closely the edge of the trap into which Gwyneth Paltrow and so many others have fallen. The next iteration of such a fieldtrip will correct for the insight offered by Brittney Cooper in the excerpt below from her article “White America’s Gwyneth Paltrow problem: How it’s playing games with the lives of poor people” for Salon.com. more…

it's easier to get from THERE to HERE than it is to get from HERE to THERE.

~design axiom

everything that someone tells you is true; they are reporting their experience of reality.

~design axiom

to argue with someone else’s experience is a waste of time.

~design axiom

to add someone’s experience to your experience, to create a new experience, is possibly valuable.

~design axiom

discovering you don’t know something is the first step to knowing it.

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we know more together than we do apart.

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the only valid test of an idea, concept, or theory is what it enables you to do.

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you understand the instructions only after you have assembled the red wagon.

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if you can’t have fun with a problem, you will never solve it.

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the future is rational only in hindsight.

~design axiom

every person working a problem already possesses an answer or an important piece of one; the work of design is to stimulate one, several, or all of us to remember what we already know.

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in every adverse condition, there are hundreds of good solutions.

~design axiom

creativity is the process of eliminating options.

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you fail until you succeed.

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nothing fails like success.

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nothing is real until it is practiced.

~melvin bray, collabyrinth

we are who we practice to be.

~melvin bray, collabyrinth

"if you cannot SEE people hidden in plain view, you cannot HEAR others' stories as having value, and if you cannot hear others' stories as having value, you cannot CHANGE."

~gregory ellison, fearless dialogues