To be engaged in design processes in healthcare organizations often implies to deal with sensitive contexts, which, in turn, deal with a unique and delicate emotional setting. In this paper, we address reflections related to our research experience adopting dialogical interviews in sensitive design contexts. These reflections arise from a field work carried out within a network of nursing homes...

The Systems Theory Framework (STF) is presented as an integrating and organising concept for the predominant theories of career. In order to test the integrative capacity of the STF, a theory of personality, the Theory of Dialogical Self, is merged with the STF’s theoretical element of story. Implications for the practice of career counselling are discussed along with a working example of a car...

Our era is witnessing an increasing impact of globalization on self and identity and at the same time a growing uncertainty. The experience of uncertainty motivates individuals and groups to find local niches for identity construction. This article’s central tenet is that the processes of globalization and localization, as globalization’s counterforce, require a dialogical conceptualization of ...

The dialogical framework is an approach to meaning that provides an alternative to both the model-theoretical and the proof-theoretical semantics. The dialogical approach to logic is not a logic but a semantic rule-based framework where different logics could be developed, combined or compared. But are there any constraints? Can we introduce rules ad libitum to define whatever logical constant?...

Victor Pelevin, whose rise to popularity coincided with the fall of Soviet Union, critiques notion national identity via prism Zen Buddhism. Pelevin embraces religion’s idea volatile self and undertakes project spiritually empowering Russians, by exposing futility constructing any identity. With linguistic, cultural, historical cross-references between Japan Russia, author creates a dialogical ...