Two good reasons to read it:
because it offers the best definition of connective intelligence and because it teaches you to see the world through a new lens.

Two good reasons to read it:
because it is a book that brings together and revisits thirty years of study and action research on ecological innovation and participatory local development, presenting the Social Resonance method in a style that is both scientific and, at the same time, pleasantly accessible.

Two good reasons to read it:
because, as Heinz von Foester argued: “The hard sciences are so successful because they deal with soft problems, and the soft sciences struggle to take off because they are the ones faced with hard problems”.

Two good reasons to read it:
because a philosopher of our times – as Hartmut Rosa likes to describe himself – had the courage to challenge the disciplinary silos from which he came and was able to provide a ‘relational’ theoretical framework for the social sciences and humanities.

Two good reasons to read it:
it combines design systems thinking tools with the expertise of two pioneers in systems design, enabling readers to reassess, refocus and tackle complex issues and thought processes. If you are a change agent or work in innovation, the techniques outlined in this book will guide you on the path to success.

Two good reasons to read it:
because only a great biologist, anthropologist, psychiatrist and founder of cybernetics could teach us to challenge the reductionist thinking that still underpins academic disciplinary silos, and because he has guided us to recognise, within each of us, those sparks of knowledge that unite us with all living creatures, enabling us to build a new ecological wisdom.

Two good reasons to read it:
because, as the great philosopher and psychoanalyst wrote, “Beauty is the way in which others touch our senses, reach our hearts and draw us into life”; and because beauty is the stance, the attitude, the vision that guides our ethical commitment in the world, making it desirable.