Divergent thinking is also called 'lateral thinking'. It is a thought process of coming up with varied creative ideas to overcome a problem and generate a solution. Divergent thinking is often a non-restricted, non-linear, and free-flowing chain of thoughts to let new ideas come as and when they occur. Whereas convergent thinking focuses on finding one well-defined solution to a problem. Divergent thinking is the opposite of convergent thinking and involves more creativity. In this piece, we’ll explain the differences between convergent and divergent thinking in the problem-solving process. Whatever, both types of thinking can improve your decision making.
In 'LAW' there is a system of rules which a community regulates the actions of its membership and which are enforceable by imposition of penalties. Whereas, in 'LORE' there are traditions and knowledge on various subjects and held by particular groups, that are typically passed from person to person by word of mouth and that invoke mutual cooperation and collaboration.
However, this might well be a time for audacity and DIVERGENToriented rhizomatic modelling to be given some consideration. If not the FRENSHAMfiefdom's aspirations whatever they reveal themselves to will be tested. In this space LAW & LORE might also be teated as has recently been the case with a judicial determination made against cultural audacity. MONA is yet to play its hand but whatever the outcome there will be much to be gleaned in regard to audacity, divergent thinking and PLACEmaking. it turns out that whatever else David Walsh might be has proven himself to be a quintessential PLACEmaker and CULTURALlandscaper.
Since this 'place' is a school 'pedagogically' through making within a DIVERGENTcontext offers opportunities that otherwise may not exist. Researchers have alerted teachers to the fact that until the age of 5 92% of children are divergent thinkers. By the time we reach our 20s only 2% of us are predisposed to divergent thinking. However, that was sung about by Harry Chapin in the 1970s...[LINK] Chapin fought to end world hunger and he was a key participant in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger in 1977. In 1987, He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work. Moreover, his divergent disposition in his own time won him accolades as lateral thinker. Interestingly, he did not graduate from university.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
When thinking about the STURTdecision and the MINDset that brought it about the evidence seems to point to a predisposition to convergent thinking. Given that Winifred West Schools (WWS) has been transformed from a SCHOOLSnetwork and ancillary enterprises into a SCHOOLsingular with COSTcentres it is ever likely that a DIVERGENToriented operation might be imagined as surplus-to-needs - unless it can be transformed.
Frensham 'the school' has evolved into the FRENSHAMfiefdom and the STURTentity given its networks and its Community of Ownership & Interest being a DIVERGENToriented rhizomatic operation, and thus its transformation difficult to achieve, its disposal might well be imagined as an imperative.
Therefore, when thinking about the STURTdecision and the STURTreview that follows on, there is utility in putting the perceived schism in some kind perspective. There is no purpose whatsoever in downplaying the dilemma and debacle IF a way forward for the Community of Ownership & Interest is being sought or for there to be a MARKETABLEoutcome within the wider community . The circumstance is hardly audacious in its status quoism but it is what it is!
If the FRENSHAMfiefdom's aspirations are to prevail and the STURTentity gives way to a COVERGENToriented MINDset the entity may well leave a gap in the CILTURALlandscape that it was a part of ultimately the gap will close and Winifred West's possible PHUTmoment. Nonetheless for the FRENSHAMfiefdom there will be consequences – some/many unanticipated or anticipatable.
However, this might well be a time for audacity and DIVERGENToriented rhizomatic modelling to be given some consideration. If not the FRENSHAMfiefdom's aspirations whatever they reveal themselves to will be tested. In this space LAW & LORE might also be teated as has recently been the case with a judicial determination made against cultural audacity. MONA is yet to play its hand but whatever the outcome there will be much to be gleaned in regard to audacity, divergent thinking and PLACEmaking. it turns out that whatever else David Walsh might be has proven himself to be a quintessential PLACEmaker and CULTURALlandscaper.In March 2024, Jason Lau, a visitor from New South Wales, filed a lawsuit against the museum, saying that it engaged in illegal discrimination by barring him from seeing its "Ladies Lounge" exhibition, which its creators had intended to provide a safe place for women to enjoy each other's company and to highlight the exclusion faced by women for decades. The museum's legal counsel acknowledged that he had been discriminated against, but added that it was part of the intended experience of the artwork. Artist Kirsha Kaechele, who is also David Walsh's wife, defended the exhibition in court, saying that "It excludes men, and I would be lying if I were to say I didn't find it titillating." In April 2024, a court ordered MONA to cease denying persons not identifying as women into the Ladies Lounge. As is often the case when a community is confronted such audacity, to say the least it will be instructive to 'watch this space'!
There is a strong case to be put that given the somewhat subliminal schism that has evolved between the FRENSHAMfiefdom and the STURTentity there may well be much to be gained in its resolution. Given their relative networks and Communities of Ownership & Interest being COVERGENToriented and DIVERGENToriented a dynamic rhizomatic operation might well evolve. In fact Kirsha Kaechele might well be invited to the table in some way or another given her informal education with travel over land to more than fifty countries in seven years, and her hands-on investigation of the idea that life designs itself.
Since this 'place' is a school 'pedagogically' through making within a DIVERGENTcontext offers opportunities that otherwise may not exist. Researchers have alerted teachers to the fact that until the age of 5 92% of children are divergent thinkers. By the time we reach our 20s only 2% of us are predisposed to divergent thinking. However, that was sung about by Harry Chapin in the 1970s...[LINK] Chapin fought to end world hunger and he was a key participant in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger in 1977. In 1987, He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work. Moreover, his divergent disposition in his own time won him accolades as lateral thinker. Interestingly, he did not graduate from university.What Harry Chapin was alerting the world to in his song is how crippling to the intellect it is when that blanded and blended convergent lowest common denominator is the goal. It is especially so when children are required to march to the beat of the same drum always. It sends intellectual cripples on life's journey in the service of that self-serving cohort of drummers seeking to protect their fiefdoms from lateral thinking and divergent thinkers.
Convergent CORPORATEfiefdoms falter and are sometimes resurrected. On the other hand divergent COOPERATIVES tend to reform and PHOENIXlike rise from their ashes somewhere. Our creative thinkers, poets often tell us such things.
Corporatised management structures tend to be convergent and RULEbased in order to maintain fiscal control plus assert 'authority'. When they fail all too often it is because RULEcompliance becomes stiffing and it inhibits timely and necessary change.
While RULEcompliant operations might well be designed to be less vulnerable to DESTRUCTIVEexplosions, they are nonetheless at risk of failure through DESTRUCTIVEimplosions.
While change in an organisation might be more easily achieve through divergent and lateral thinking, they are operations that are open to making mistakes – and always at risk of exploding. However, when the status quo is unsustainable it is most likely it will be divergent and experimental thinking that will restore a sustainable balance. As Albert Einstein so rightly pointed out ...“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Sadly, educational curriculum have tended to evolve into standardised convergent RULEbased methodologies that are basically antithetic to divergent and outside-the-box thinking. Making, 'making' an element in educational criteria again would a worthwhile 'experiment'. Indeed that is what Harry Chapin sang about in the 1970s so as our cultural realities might well be afforded opportunities to not only 'look' but also to experience the joy of 'seeing rainbows' wherever they turn up while we are making stuff ... sometimes places ... HOMEplaces.
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The birds they sang ... At the break of day ...Start again I heard them say ... Don't dwell on what ... Has passed away ... Or what is yet to be
Yeah, the wars ... They will be fought again ... The holy dove ... She will be caught again ... Bought and sold ... And bought again ... The dove is never free
[Chorus]Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
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