Marc Rettig

Fit Associates, SVA Social Innovation, CMU Design. He/him. Working toward a world where all belong.

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

@kestelyn Poster author here, chiming in here from ancient history. This keeps popping up on the radar! Not hard to find downloads (some with a missing paragraph at end of 1NF--beware), but if there's interest I'm thinking of offering prints. You made shirts?! Say more?

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

@cmudesign OMG. Congratulations to Jabe!

(I'm sure he's hearing quality jibes about "temporality" and the length of his PhD process, so I won't labor to invent a good joke here.)

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

@djp1974 I’ve been getting so much from Weller over the past year. Thanks!

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

Join our Creativity Practice Group for a rhythm of provocation and practice early next year.

Details and sign-up: https://t.co/NL69gZpxDR

Small group, serious play. Recover flow, practice play, shift your source. Connect attention and expression. Work with the difficulties.

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

@leeloowrites Love that you’re working on this and look forward to seeing more (and sharing w/ students). Clearly you’ve got this, but juuust in case there’s any useful language, here’s what came out of me when I first got wound up about the topic. https://t.co/0DO32g321L

[Cormac Russell @CormacRussell]

We Should Drop the Disorder (film). An important call to action. https://t.co/XQb76RVErV

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

Folks interested in teaching #socinn, social design, long-haul social pattern-shifting, you may be interested in the 2023 syllabus for our "Fundamentals" course. Starting the 12th year today (!!).
https://t.co/0NHFmooVAJ

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

Here's a nice write-up of the "Design for the Inevitable" event with @Hannahdup and @IxDAPGH. What if we learned to include the exiled, shadow aspects of human experience in our work and life?

Thanks to Raelynn and Ashley at the great @dezudiopgh.

https://t.co/q5AIk9zzYc

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

@SmaragdinaVisio @djp1974 For me the lesson is not about the cosmic mysteries of 23, it's about the cosmic mysteries of attention. Related to why we don't see the fnords.
https://t.co/YsEKmWi8JG

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

@SmaragdinaVisio @djp1974 I vaguely remember Wilson giving away the punchline somewhere near the end of one of his books. It’s not 23, it’s that you’re paying attention to 23. Akin to the “plate o’ fish” phenomenon.

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

You may not know my dear long-time co-explorer @Hannahdup has been diagnosed with ALS. This has deepened our conversation with loss, grief, and "stubborn joy" (at all scales), and highlighted the way most of us avoid this "craft" in life and work. Let's talk about it.

[IxDA Pittsburgh @IxDAPGH]

“Human-centered” often faces away from disability, illness, and death, but this too is being human. How might we make welcome what we fear?

Monday, July 17, 6-8pm
CMU Collaborative Innovation Center

Register: https://t.co/iXyYz9hdfG

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

@Joseph_Fasano_ Hoo lovely. Thank you.

Resonates with this gift from dear Jack Gilbert.

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

@ReginaRosenfeld @DangerousMere Grateful that my feed is increasingly composed of poetry.

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

@arealmofwonder Hoo, good one. And today I learned about Norman MacCaig. Thank you.

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

Thank you for the valuable framing.
"What if we’re giving up loneliness? What if we’re giving up hopelessness? Those are the stories I’m trying to tell and the stories that I think will make us brave enough to make the transitions we need to make."

[Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag]

"What are the stories that are constructive and liberating?" asks @jhalifax https://t.co/vCaPgkMZXV

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

Tonight’s happy hour poet: Jack Gilbert.

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

@djp1974 https://t.co/xxUBvJZYou.

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

Proud of this work. And fascinated by the way the work of assessment and evaluation is evolving as folks move their practices further into social complexity. We're learning and practicing our way in along with you all.

[Fit Associates @fitassociates]

Long-haul work that aims for pattern-shifts, sturdy relationships & personal development—not only needs approaches other than "problem-solving," it can also be difficult to assess.
Here we use "principles and directions" to ask, "How did we do in 2022?"
https://t.co/cBPcDMcINW

[Solutions Journalism Network @soljourno]

Everyone's sick of conflict. If we want to transform it, we have to abandon assumption and simplicity in favor of listening and curiosity.

Here are 22 questions to help you do it, from the work of @amandaripley.
https://t.co/U6y56jgnI1

[Marc Rettig @mrettig]

Thanks for the tools, @inthekitchenpgh! You said to @ you, so: Orange olive oil cake; lemon curd & blueberry compote; vanilla bourbon mascarpone buttercream; cumquat, gooseberry, strawberry & blueberry garnish w/ dried flowers (& shameless degree of inspiration from Aimee France)