ELSEWISE.
REFRAME.
Question the frame through which we see something.
RETHINK.
Question the assumptions we have learned to rely on.
REIMAGINE.
Explore what else could be possible.
Thinking beyond the current system.
ELSEWISE. is an interdisciplinary space for ideas, perspectives and questions that challenge the obvious. We bring together knowledge from different disciplines to explore familiar problems from unfamiliar angles.
Discipline
Each field keeps its own questions, methods and blind spots, running in parallel.
Connection
Brought into conversation, their lines cross, and something is held in common.
New perspective
From the crossing, a way of seeing that none of them held alone.
What else can we see?
Questions first. Disciplines follow.
Every essay and note begins with a question. To explore it, we draw on a broad repository of scientific disciplines and choose the perspectives that actually shed light on it. Sometimes that is two fields, sometimes four, rarely all of them. The interdisciplinary work happens in the writing itself.
- Sociology
- Philosophy
- Psychology
- Economics
- Political science
- History
- Anthropology
- Law
- Technology
- Design
- Art
- Linguistics
- and more
Another way of seeing things.
Three ways in.
Deep thinking.
Long-form, researched and theory-informed explorations of questions across society, organizations, technology, culture and everyday life.
Read the essaysOpen thinking.
Shorter observations, ideas, books, studies, concepts, questions and discoveries.
Browse the notesOur thinking.
The thinking behind ELSEWISE.: its purpose, principles and perspective.
Read the principlesConnecting disciplines. Expanding understanding.
Latest.
- ESSAY What can organizations learn from political theory? Companies govern people without calling it government. Ideas from Hobbes to Ostrom offer another way of looking at authority, dissent and shared resources at work. Read the essay
- NOTE On slack A reading note on Tom DeMarco's argument that idle capacity is a precondition of change, not its enemy. Read the note
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We live in systems we rarely stop to examine.
Ideas become familiar.Categories become boundaries.Disciplines become silos.
ELSEWISE. creates space to step outside those frames.
To connect what is usually separated.To question what appears obvious.To look again.
REFRAME.RETHINK.REIMAGINE.