The shape of things to come

“Learning to swim or learning a foreign language,” wrote philosopher Gilles Deleuze, “means composing the singular points of one's own body or one's own language with those of another shape or element, which tears us apart but also propels us into a hitherto unknown and unheard-of world of problems.”

One way to understand the practice of Innovation is learning how to understand, then how to guide something new into the world. As a yoga teacher, I used my practice to help me understand the embodied aspect of an innovator, to map an emerging shape generated by my research practice. [A body is composed of many things human and non-human].

Innovation in organisations is blocked by the comforts of unreflective habit so moulding the body at the intersections of sense and event (Deleuze,1994) allows connection with unknown entities, exposure to interrupt one's own world. This notion of interruption is crucial to my research, exploring the possibilities of “VulnerAbility” as an innovative tool.

This iterative process enables new practices and problems to unfold, reshape and subsequently be-shaped.