POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
Dino Karabeg, University of Oslo, Norway
Fredrik Eive Refsli, Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway
ENABLING SYSTEMIC
TRANSFORMATIONS
POLYSCOPY PROTOTYPE
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
SYNOPSIS
– Enabling global paradigm shift
– By enabling dialogical creation of vision
– An invitation
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POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
MOTIVATION
It is absolutely essential to
find a way to change course.
– Aurelio Peccei, 1981
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Photo: Horst Faas
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
PROBLEM
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POLYSCOPIC INFORMATION
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
PROPOSED SOLUTION
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POLYSCOPIC INFORMATION
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
PROPOSED SOLUTION
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POLYSCOPIC INFORMATION
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
“A MOUNTAIN-BUILDING KIT”
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METHOD
Insight
Thread
Pattern
Ideogram
Aspect
Gestalt
Vignette
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
STRATEGY
The future will either be an
inspired product of a great
cultural revival, or there will
be no future.
– Aurelio Peccei, 1981
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POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
AN IMPENDING RENAISSANCE-LIKE CHANGE
Science
Democracy
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ASPECTS
Humanism
Industrial
Revolution
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
AN IMPENDING EQUIVALENT TO SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
Science
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ASPECT
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
COPERNICUS > NEWTON > EINSTEIN
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THREAD
Copernicus gave us 

the simplicity
Einstein took away 

the mechanism
Newton gave us 

the mechanism
Then the atom split 

and the models again
became intractable
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
SCIENCE AT A CROSSROADS
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PATTERN & IDEOGRAM
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
AN IMPENDING RENAISSANCE-LIKE CHANGE
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ASPECTS
Science
Democracy
Humanism
Industrial
Revolution
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
AN IMPENDING DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION
Democracy
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ASPECT
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
BAKAN > BOURDIEU > BAUMAN
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THREAD
Pierre Bourdieu: 

How the society evolves
Joel Bakan: 

How the institutions evolve
Zygmunt Bauman: 

How the cruelty remains unseen
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
HOW THE INSTITUTIONS EVOLVE
The corporation's legally defined
mandate is to pursue, relentlessly and
without exception, its own self interest,
regardless of the often harmful
consequences it might cause to others.
– Joel Bakan, 2004
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INSIGHT & VIGNETTE
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
HOW THE SOCIETY EVOLVES
Symbolic power is that invisible power
which can be exercised only with the
complicity of those who do not want to
know that they are subject to it or even
that they themselves exercise it.
– Pierre Bourdieu, 1991
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INSIGHT & VIGNETTE
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
HOW THE CRUELTY REMAINS UNSEEN
Modernity did not make people more cruel; it only
invented a way in which cruel things could be done
by non-cruel people. Under the sigh of modernity,
evil does not need any more evil people. Rational
people, men and women well riveted into the
impersonal, adiaphorized network of modern
organization, will do perfectly.
– Zygmunt Bauman, 2001
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INSIGHT & VIGNETTE
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
POWER STRUCTURE
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PATTERN & IDEOGRAM
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
AN IMPENDING RENAISSANCE-LIKE CHANGE
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ASPECTS
Science
Democracy
Humanism
Industrial
Revolution
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
“A MOUNTAIN-BUILDING KIT”
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METHOD
Insight
Thread
Pattern
Ideogram
Aspect
Gestalt
Vignette
POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
WHAT WE’VE ALSO DONE
– Polyscopy as paradigm prototype
– Forty prototypes to elaborate the details
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POLYSCOPY
PROTOTYPE
WHAT WE INVITE YOU TO CREAT WITH US
– Bootstrapping systemic innovation
– Design dialog to co-create Polyscopy
– Public dialog to co-create the vision
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Enabling Systemic Transformations