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Pattern Languages for Public Problem Solving: Seven Seeds for Theory and Practice
- 1. Pattern Languages for Public Problem Solving Seven Seeds for Theory and Practice November 14, 2014 Krems, Austria Douglas Schuler The Evergreen State College The Public Sphere Project
- 2. • Purpose: Exploring opportunities for focusing our work • Disclaimer: This work is exploratory. I’m not attempting to be definitive or authoritative. • Approach: A vision, followed by seven seeds with questions and ideas (not answers). (And the seeds are not autonomous.)
- 3. Vision Pattern languages could play vital roles in helping to bring about positive social change.
- 4. How might this come about? • Pattern languages could help document the problem solving aspects in a given domain (e.g. nature of problem, forces, indicators, marshaling resources, resolving problems and sub-problems, goals) • Pattern language development could provide community building opportunities (to do one project — but also to promote / shepherd / market the ability for others to do the same) • Pattern languages could provide additional opportunities if they were more accessible, attractive, and easier to use • Pattern languages could promote interdisciplinary work by providing a shared “neutral” language • Pattern languages could promote distributed, loosely coordinated work
- 5. Seven Seeds 1. Appeal 2. Use 3. Theory 4. Meta-patterns 5. Cataloging & Formalization 6. Public Problem Domains 7. Community
- 6. SEED 1 Appeal • What do we like about patterns & pattern languages? (this I will not try to bias here…) • Why do we think they’d be useful for social change? • problem-solving orientation • good level of generality • holistic, systems orientation • more!
- 7. SEED 2 Theory Two main types (I think): 1. About patterns & pattern languages themselves (generative processes, piecemeal growth, network-based, …) 2. About the use of patterns & pattern languages
- 8. SEED 3 (1/9) Use • In what ways are pattern languages used? • In what ways could pattern languages be used? • How can we make pattern languages more useful and accessible? • What barriers are there? • What difference does the actual form make? • Is there pattern language life-cycle? • And can / should a methodology be formalized?
- 9. SEED 3 (2/9) Use In what ways are and could pattern languages used? • By whom? Children? students? activists? • In what arena or setting? • Using what guidelines, scripts, or protocol • For what purpose?
- 10. SEED 3 (3/9) Use • What difference does the form make? Cards, games, master plan, online, posters, interviews, multi-media productions (StreamScapes) • Patterns and pattern languages can be thought of as “social objects” [See Iba Tasashi’s dialogue workshop]
- 11. SEED 3 (4/9) Use Game based on patterns
- 12. SEED 3 (5/9) Use Online game
- 13. SEED 3 (6/9) Use Poster — English & Spanish Anti-Patterns
- 14. SEED 3 (7/9) Use Patterns in Russian ~~ surviving the cultural & translational trip?
- 15. SEED 3 (8/9) Use Turning patterns into action Worksheets: Kenneth Gillgren
- 16. SEED 3 (9/9) Use More action planning Worksheets: Kenneth Gillgren
- 17. SEED 4 Meta-patterns Can / should we develop a meta-pattern language (or?) that would help us throughout the pattern language life-cycle. (Or is that too meta??) Generating Selecting Using (to generate ideas; for planning; for fostering imagination, group skills, etc.) Configuring (arranging) Refining Linking Annotating Discussing Critiquing Combining Splitting Evaluating Validating Indexing Categorizing Incentivizing Problem mapping Visualizing Stakeholder identifying
- 18. SEED 5 (1/3) Cataloging and Formalization 1. Reference model is a union of the features in the patterns of the world’s pattern languages 2. “Card catalog” contains references (and links) to the world’s pattern languages 3. Computer support for everything we need… • API and/or database sharing access to parts of patterns, access to multiple pattern languages • Is it possible to formalize the representation of the force diagram (syntactically and with a shared tag-set) to accommodate more sharing?
- 19. SEED 5 (2/3) Cataloging and Formalization Computer-Aided-Mashup Random patterns from three pattern languages were selected as an experiment in “forced connections” Voices of the Unheard (LV) Retreat and Reflection (LV) Seasoned Timing (GW) Connection to the Earth (APL) Online Deliberation (LV) Floor Surface (APL) Purpose (GW) Spirit (GW) Big Tent for Social Change (LV) Power Research (LV) Go Meta (GW) Seeing the Forest, Seeing the Trees (GW)
- 20. PATTERN LANGUAGE RE-MIX Seasoned Timing Connection to the Earth Retreat and Reflection Image for Seasoned Timing: Liz West SEED 5 (3/3)
- 21. SEED 6 Public Problem Domain(s) Work with a small number of communities to develop pattern languages collaboratively. This could focus attention (including our own) and we could learn by doing how pattern languages could help. Suggestions: Climate Change, Government and Business Corruption, Public Education (not just “Education in the Public Schools”)
- 22. SEED 7 Community Strengthen our communities (which includes us, potential vs actual direct users, potential vs actual indirect users) How to attract people, attention, and resources and grow.
- 23. last word… Understand our own interest around pattern languages Thanks! Expand our community Critique and improve these seeds…