Thanks to one of my
colleagues, I came across this article titled “Awakening our collaborative
spirit” --by Michael Michalko, July 17, 2012 [print-version]. Yes…it is
indeed a good piece on David Bohm’s observations and is very much relevant even
to the present context in most organizations (see the clip).
As some others have observed:
“Bohm dialogue is an integral process of design and design thinking.”
The Indian education system
needs to open up for encouraging dialogue on design thinking. Challenging the
status quo with a new thought has a crucial role in enhancing creativity and
fostering innovation. Indian education system needs to create
structures for supporting design as a process. [Note: The "fragments" in the quote below can be seen as the "disciplinary silos" in our education system.]
Quoting
David Bohm (Wholeness and the Implicate Order, 1980; source: wikiquotes);
The
notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an
illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and
confusion.
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are
really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely
urgent crises that is confronting us today. Thus, as is now well known, this
way of life has brought about pollution, destruction of the balance of nature,
over-population, world-wide economic and political disorder and the creation of
an overall environment that is neither physically nor mentally healthy for most
of the people who live in it. Individually there has developed a widespread
feeling of helplessness and despair, in the face of what seems to be an
overwhelming mass of disparate social forces, going beyond the control and even
the comprehension of the human beings who are caught up in it.
