Knowledge mapping
is a general term that covers
and may include
more traditional visuals such as
FOCUS ON PUBLIC
ISSUE MAPPING
Knowledge mapping
offers a tremendous resource for deliberation
about issues or problems.
We can lay out what we collectively know, visually clarifying relationships among the relevant
factors, actors, sectors, etc., involved with the problem being deliberated. This can be done
before, during and/or after any particular deliberation, containing and delineating the complexity of
the issue or situation in a confrontable, usable form, embracing the full spectrum of arguments
and options. Different groups working on a particular problem can simultaneously or subsequently
can add their insights to the maps. If a group is working on a problem similar to an earlier group's,
the later one can use the other's maps as a template for launching their own. Websites and
publications based on issue maps could inform the public in an unbiased way, and councils of
citizens, stakeholders, legislators and/or administrators could be informed by and/or create such
issue maps.
-
prototype issue
maps
- dilemmas and paradoxes maps
- cross-boundary causality and dynamics maps
- policy context maps
- argumentation maps
- strategy maps
- options maps
- scenario maps
- Stakeholder goals, values and pressure
maps
- agreement templates
- unknown territory maps
- mythosphere, media and public rhetoric
maps
- Worldview influences maps
Knowledge mapping
can be used to aid other visionary approaches seeking to summarize the
full complexity of issues, such as:
Although knowledge
mapping has been so far used primarily to chart out the tangles of negative
factors related to an issue, it could just as well be used to map positive aspects in the spirit of
AppreciativeInquiry
and
AssetBasedCommunityDevelopment
. Among the positive factors that
could be mapped around an issue, organization or community are relevant:
-
resources
- assets
- creative options
- innovations
- networks
- visions
This is all fabulous
to find, AND I would add (or offer as a matrix for it) Ken Wilber's four
quadrants (interior/exterior- individual/collective) and Clare Graves'Spiral Dynamics. (Max Gail
max@lap.org)
The common citizen
becoming oriented, through graphically represented conceptual
frameworks will be able to focus her own line of thinking and her own learning road. She will
be able to communicate back and contribute her own inquires and ideas more effectively. The
common citizen will have much more power to learn and participate.
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