creative abrasion
1.The knowledge ecology of Xerox PARC: creative abrasion
Disciplines are not very good at interacting with each other. Just walk into any type of campus. So the catch to me is: how do you create a space of pluralism that somehow manages to foster and honor a kind of creative abrasion. So you can get ideas that really rub against each other productively as opposed to destructively. You can use this notion as a way to challenge the status quo, be able to think out of the box and get to be able to examine some tacitly held sensibilities, if not tacitly held practices.
