HI, I am Massimo Curatella.
I am a Strategic Designer and a Facilitator.
I write about design, education, facilitation, and Systems Thinking.
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- How to transform a draft into a final article by mental distancingWrite a draft impulsively and without caring too much. Let it rest. Collect feedback. Then edit it and publish it.
- More networked thinking
How I am evolving my Personal Knowledge Management workflow. The difference between reading and writing-while-reading. - Creativity, eclecticism and Personal Knowledge ManagementHaving too many ideas. Struggle in finding a common thread. Concerned about building an audience while being eclectic. What about curating sources, filtering inputs.
- Notes on creativity and productivity with Ness Labs CommunityGreat session today on creativity, inspiration, productivity, workflow with Anne Laure Le Cunff of https://nesslabs.com/ My notes: Idea trails.https://trickle.app/ Lifelong learners are always dealing with information overload. Great sources of knowledge can be hard to find….
- Design is a PlanA short video by Duane Smith and Stefane Barbeau elaborating on the concept that Design is Planning.
- What User Experience (UX) Really Means
This is what Donald Norman, the inventor of the term User Experience really meant when he created the term User Experience (UX). - Perfectionism Killed my Creativity
I did too much. And I did nothing. This is the story of how being a perfectionist got me stuck. - Systemic Design Toolkit by Kristel van Ael of Namahn
Keynote: Hands-on with Systemic Design by Kristel van Ael of Namahn during The Virtual Design Thinking BarCamp 2020 . - Massimo Curatella interviewed on Knowledge Management by David Orban
This is an extract of the interview transcript that David Orban conducted live on the 14 April 2020 for his Internet who Searching For The Question Live. Massimo Curatella (me!) was interviewed on Personal Knowledge Management, writing and education. - Speculative Design, Critical Design, and Future Design. Notes from the Webinar by Debora Bottà
Speculative Design is about re-imagining our imagination to create better futures that are possible and desirable. - Facilitating Complexity Thinking
How to facilitate group processes in solving simple, complicated, and complex Problems. Methods applied in the 1st Workshop of OsservAgro. - How to take a digital note, webinar by Tiago Forte
Live notes taken during Tiago Forte’s webinar on Building a Second Brain - I don’t want everything to go back to the way it was.
I want a mosaic, where each one is a slow and precious fragment, and where there is no need for bars or bans to notice the grace of this springtime. - Workshop Design methods, Discovery and Ideation
How I used facilitation tools and techniques to organize and deliver a series of workshops for the Observatory on the Dialogue in the Agrifood System (OsservAgro). - Facilitating Collective Intelligence for the Sustainability of Agri-food
My experience as a facilitator of five workshops, for the Dialogue in the Agri-food System Observatory (Osservagro) - Strategic Design for Collective Intelligence
A Strategic Designer Collective facilitates Collective Intelligence for leaders and decision-makers to be more than the sum of their parts. - Design is Planning
Design is planning the purpose of something before it is made. Build more rational and useful products and services by carefully planning their making. - Networking by communicating your challenge
Focusing on a specific mission is hard. If you’re not clear about it it’s even harder to communicate it. This is how it went with my presentation to Ozan Varol’s Inner Circle. - Facilitation is the process of learning together
Facilitation is the process of learning together. A professional facilitator improves collective intelligence through structured activities. - Funny constraints as learning tools for young learners
How to design a learning game with visual facilitation methods and funny constraints to keep the learner’s interest high and to improve understanding of how knowledge is structured.
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Massimo Curatella
I am a Senior Experience Designer, a Facilitator, a Trainer, and an Educator.
I work as a Senior Strategic Designer in the fields of Service Design, UX Design, Interaction Design, User Research, User Interface Design, Usability Testing and managing small remote groups of designers and developers.
I the last 25 years I have been designing, developing, writing, speaking and teaching about digital technologies.
I am expanding my online and live Facilitation services to cover: Collective Intelligence Design, Systems Practice and Systems Change.
I aim at improving the well-being of people and the planet while promoting the sustainable adoption of new technologies and co-designing ecosystem-centered solutions. I facilitate learning processes by simplifying the complex.
I believe in Systems Thinking, Critical Thinking and Design Thinking and I feel I have never learnt enough about being more effective and efficient with those disciplines.
I am writing about my experience on this blog. Something I wanted to do for more than 20 years.
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I am based in Rome, Italy. Although I can travel I would prefer remote work.
MasterMinds Inspiring Me
Bruno Munari
An Italian designer with the gift of intelligence and kindness. He introduced me to Design Thinking for the first time.
Donella Meadows
A mother, among the many, of Systems Thinking. Read my notes on her book: Thinking in Systems. She taught me how to dance with systems.
Bret Victor
Interaction Designer, intends to invent a humane medium in which the thinkers of the next century will see, understand, and create systems.
Peter Senge
A father, among many, of Systems Thinking. “Think about forest, Max, not systems“. He said to me during a meeting.
Ken Robinson
Teacher, writer, researcher, adviser and speaker. An education systems revolutionary who can make you laugh. School failed us. Lets rebuilt it.
Shane Parrish
Helping you master the best of what other people have already figured out. Sharpen your mind with a Critical Thinking mastermind.