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Field Notes


RIZOM, TCAF and Ginkgo lab. announce John Costi residency at Lagamas
A new field residency in Languedoc will explore art, trauma recovery and symbolic transformation through the Ginkgo lab. research programme.

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8 hours ago1 min read


When Systems Resume but Trust Does Not
Cyber resilience may depend less on restoring operations than on creating the conditions for human return.

RIZOM
Jun 114 min read


RIZOM Invited to Contribute to AI Trust & Inclusion Roundtables
Contribution to the Franco-British AI Trust & Inclusion Forum on Trust and Inclusion

RIZOM
May 11 min read


The Fourth Way of AI: From Knowing to Understanding
The Fourth Way: Why the Next AI Won’t Know More. It Will Understand Better.

RIZOM
Apr 227 min read


Leaders and the Moment of Structural Rupture
In a compressed field, deeper shifts in the interpretive ground distort how meaning is formed, placing strain on the leader’s capacity to maintain coherence.

RIZOM
Mar 274 min read


The Century-Long Blind Spot in Organisational Thought and Behavioural Optimisation
The Leader as symbolic centre is the precondition to organisational and coaching fields

RIZOM
Mar 156 min read




Elastic Leadership
Leadership identity is revealed under constraint. When pressure rises, some leaders narrow interpretation to protect authority. Others expand interpretive bandwidth and redesign the system. Elastic leadership is the discipline of integrating limits without defensive contraction. It surfaces contradiction early, distributes judgement and preserves coherence before structural fatigue sets in.

RIZOM
Mar 31 min read


When Minotaur Meets Centaur
Organisations increasingly encourage people to speak, while retaining strong control over meaning. Voice remains present, but interpretation narrows. Trust does not collapse suddenly. It shifts. Signals reach leadership filtered, hesitation replaces challenge, and coherence weakens over time. Reading organisational voice as a field helps detect these trust gaps before outcomes or crises force them into view.

RIZOM
Feb 41 min read




When Titles Stop Carrying You
A dialogue between RIZOM co-founders on professional identity, symbolic topology, and crossing thresholds

RIZOM
Jan 178 min read


After The Title
When a senior career ends abruptly, the rupture is rarely only professional. What falls away is also a structure of meaning that has long held identity in place.
At that moment, the core question is who speaks when the corporate voice falls silent.
This is the time for recursive reflection, for separating the role once worn from the presence one now wishes to inhabit. Pauses in visibility, retreats, or the refusal to rush into self-packaging are acts of regained agency.

RIZOM
Jan 151 min read


Reading the Symbolic Field
How RIZOM Dashboard turns metaphors into insights

RIZOM
Nov 18, 20254 min read


The Anatomy of Meaning
How meaning takes shape, at individual and collective levels

RIZOM
Nov 17, 20254 min read


Trick or Treat | Trust and the Fear of...
How trust and fear mirror each other; one stitching coherence, the other testing its seams.

RIZOM
Nov 1, 20251 min read


REACT25 - RIZOM Joins the Conversation at the Frontier of CultTech
RIZOM takes part in REACT 2025 (Research and Educational Advancements in Culture and Technology), opening the CultTech Summit, Vienna.

RIZOM
Oct 16, 20254 min read


The Leadership Innovation Ladder
How symbolic leaders nurture innovation through meaning

RIZOM
Oct 13, 20254 min read


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