1) The document discusses alternative pathways and methods for appreciating different perspectives. 2) It notes that our understanding of issues is framed by our perspective, and there are under-determined realities with no single objective picture. 3) The challenge is addressing the plurality of diverse pictures from different frames of reference, and interacting knowledges and pathways over time within complex contextual systems.

1. STEPS Pathways Methods
PART 1
Helping to appreciate alternative pathways
Professor Andy Stirling
Co-director, STEPS Centre
www.steps-centre.org
www.sussex.ac.uk/spru
www.multicriteria-mapping.org

2. ‘scope’
‘system’
‘focus’
stylised representation
‘cause’
‘effect’
under-determined realities
Knowledge: the reality of ‘framing’

3. environment‘scope’
‘system’
‘focus’
picture of the worldsubjective framing
Knowledge: the reality of ‘framing’
‘effect’
under-determined realities
‘cause’local people

4. environment
‘system’
under-determined realitiesdiverse picturesplural frames
Knowledge: the challenge of plurality
‘effect’
‘cause’
local people
‘scope’
‘focus’

5. plural frames
‘system’
‘cause’
‘effect’
under-determined realities
local people
Knowledge: the challenge of plurality
diverse pictures
‘scope’
‘focus’

6. environment
plural frames
Knowledges and Pathways
‘system’
under-determined realities
local people
time
‘effect’
‘cause’
diverse pictures
‘scope’
‘focus’‘pathway’

7. interacting processes
agencies and structures
imaginations
power relations
Knowledges and Pathways
‘system’
time
CONTEXTS
‘pathway’
a self-reinforcing
trajectory of change
discourses
institutions
expectations
values
technologies
interests
ecologies
intentions
physical world
subjects and objects!
social and material
practices