ReCalibrating SenseMaking
Making Sense of *Strategic/Systemic Visual SenseMaking
All things considered, we decided to make this important chapter into two brief parts highlighting a few not-so-obvious essentials related to the evolution and activity of sensemaking in the context of Design for Complexity and geared to Arena 3 and 4 practice leaders.
Part 1: Resetting Context: Sharing 12 Leaps / Cross-Community Evolution Framework
Part 2: Resetting Expectations: Sharing 12 Tips for SenseMaking Practice Leaders
Since this is intended to be a non-linear book we have given ourselves the freedom to table the stories in non-traditional order...:-) Continuing my conversation with *Claude Winkler.
G: It’s no secret in the big picture sense, that multitudes of paradigms are in motion and shifting out there in the giant real world at this time and SenseMaking is no exception. We consider it to be a paradigm that has been in motion for 200+ years.
In this chapter we do that in-short-order by sharing a 12 Leaps / Cross-Community SenseMaking Evolution Framework that we use to chunk-up the journey of roughly 260+ years from 1765 to today.
Since the terminologies keep changing to keep up with changes in practice, we focus here on looking at the history of the intention articulated as “Making the Complex Clear.”
Once we have that 12 Leaps Framework picture what becomes more clear is that what we call Systemic Visual Sensemaking today is the result of layer upon layer, adding and subtracting, of cross community knowledge from several disciplines, enabling the goal posts to be shifted more towards not just understanding, but action. We think of the complex evolution this way:
12 LEAPS / CROSS-COMMUNITY SENSEMAKING EVOLUTION FRAMEWORK
In this framework we are looking at how the professional responsibility for clarity evolved over 200+ years:
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