Dialogue as Design Communication
Alexander Christakis and Kevin Dye co-authored a Chapter to appear in a forthcoming book edited by Bela H. Banathy and Patrick Jenlink on dialogue as a means of design communication.
The authors describe at the outset of the Chapter the generic requirements that the CogniScope methodology is attempting to satisfy, all of which are relevant to complex multidimensional situations and projects. The Chapter also presents how, on the basis of six fundamental principles, the methodology it enables the stakeholders to construct high quality observations, recognizing that the observations in the domain of complex societal situations should not any longer be considered independent of the observer, as in the Newtonian paradigm.
This statement about the construction of observations, is the essence of the New Paradigm, or what has been referred to in the systems science literature as “Third Phase Science.”