Bohm dialogue and design thinking

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.