#31 Cameron Norman – Design and Collaboration

I’ve always had an interest in design and design thinking, although I’ve never pursued that interest in much depth. Cameron Norman, my guest on this episode of the Cool Collaborations podcast, is a professional designer, psychologist, evaluator, and educator with a great interest in the science and practice of innovation. He runs a consultancy called Censemaking and he is an adjunct professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

In our conversation, we talk about what Cameron’s calls Design for Humans and how the concepts and approaches of design and of collaboration are closely linked. Please enjoy our conversation.

Some links to some of the things we discuss during this episode: 

• Cameron Norman
• Cense 
• Seth Godin
• Intersectionality
• Book: Organisational Aesthetics: Developing beautiful organisations by Steven de Groot 
• Pareto Principle
• Book: World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down by Christian McEwen

Your host for the Cool Collaborations podcast is Scott Millar. Scott is the principle of Collaboration Dynamics, where he often works as a "peacemaker" by gathering people with different experiences and values and helping them navigate beyond their differences to tackle complex problems together.