Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Join host Svenja Rüger with Rob Evans & Matt Taylor for a 90-minute live discussion.
Americas
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST/Los Angeles
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST/Chicago
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST/New York
EMEA
16:00 – 18:00 GMT/London
17:00 – 19:00 CET/Paris
18:00 – 20:00 EET/Helsinki
19:00 – 21:00 EAT/Nairobi
FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP
How can we, as practitioners, become better at what we do in service of humanity?
We are pleased to announce that our 51st MG Taylor Model of the Month Workshop will be on February 5th. Join us as we explore new ideas and insights through collaborative and innovative approaches.
We would be delighted to have you participate in this beautiful experience of knowledge exchange, group work, and conversation. The facilitated session will last for 90 minutes, with an additional 30 minutes in which we will still be around for an informal discussion.
This discussion will explore the Three Cat and Design-Build-Use Models.
(The model description links are below.)
The Three Cat Model
A metaphor for information management in the act of creation, this model represents the cyclical process of:
- Observing reality,
- Forming a concept, and
- Testing that concept through modeling and action.
This iterative process ensures continuous refinement, enabling us to move from abstract concepts to actionable realities.
Design-Build-Use
This model shifts the traditional, hierarchical relationships of creation to one of co-responsibility. Designers, builders, and users work not as separate entities but as co-designers, co-builders, and co-users, enabling feedback loops that ensure humanity, value, and integration in the final result.
By weaving these models together, we’ll examine:
- How Design-Build-Use can deepen the insights from the Three Cat Model.
- How co-responsibility and shared agency minimize rework, reduce costs, and foster meaningful innovation.
- The role of prototyping and real-world testing in navigating the complexities of creation, particularly as we face uncertain futures.
Why This Matters Now
As we collectively navigate the world today, many of our ideas for a “new future by design” remain conceptual. These models challenge us to take action, refine through practice, and ensure that our concepts remain viable and valuable.
Join us on Wednesday, February 5th to discuss these two models and how they relate to one another.
See you there.
Warmly,
Matt, Rob Evans & Svenja Rüger
NOTE: This online workshop is free to all participants. Members of our TVW Learning Community on Mighty Networks will have access to the recording and resources, including all future and past MOTM series and TVW workshops.
Workshop Presenters
SVENJA RUEGER
Münich, Germany | Facilitator | Process Designer
Svenja is a facilitator and designer of large-scale collaborative sessions. Her passion lies in building resilient communities and facilitating collaborative processes to solve complex challenges on a systems level. She cares a lot about the challenges the world is currently facing and wants to support connecting the dots in order to create impactful, meaningful solutions. She promotes listening to understand, not listening to speak, and holds the space for what is trying to emerge.
ROB EVANS
New York & San Francisco | TVW Member since 2015
Rob Evans is recognized as one of the world’s best-known and most respected facilitators. He has taught thousands of leaders and facilitators in the private, public, and NGO sectors. The Collaboration Code® is a book series curated by Rob Evans co-founder of Imaginal Labs. Book three in the series, Models: Frameworks for Transformation presents the entire set of models and terms of art in the MG Taylor Modeling Language, including many never-before documented models with illustrations by Kelvy Bird, Christopher Fuller, and Kelly Adams.
MATT TAYLOR
Kansas City, USA | Designer | Inventor| Teacher| Facilitator
For over 60 years, Matt Taylor has focused his career on the application of architectural design methods to solving complex, systemic problems found at the intersection of physical environments, ecologies, organizational practices, and visionary ideas. This work involves business processes, tool-sets, and software programs, and includes their expression and utilization in the design, construction, and use of virtual and physical environments for collaborative work and sustainable creative living. The components of these environments, and the environments themselves, are designed and built in regard to their fit with, and long-term impact on, social-economic-ecological systems. The sum of his work is outlined in a System and Method co-invented with partner Gail Taylor. He is co-founder of the MG Taylor Corporation.
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