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Good Journalism Domain MapA discipline inherits its body of knowledge, and passes it on through education. A transdiscipline co-creates its body of knowledge, by organizing relevant resources on its domain map. Help us evolve a vision for good journalism by contributing key resources. Reflection on Barcelona Knowledge Federation and the New Journalism On the last day, Wednesday Nov 16, we all talked and came up with this amazing Infinity 8 diagram about the butterfly and transformation - in the context of innovation, journalism and education. Its hard to convey the excitement of it, as it felt like a breakthrough. Ramon Sanguesa, has set out to explain it, and I have edited it lightly. When we go out in the world to See, Do, Connect - then we come back to being mindful and reflective - What is it? Why do something? How to go about doing it? So we traverse the infinity loop thus: We are “feeling and reflecting in the world of the mind” our way forward, to spend time on the What, Why, How having connected, to not live inside one person’s mind with its tendency to rationalize and self-justify, to connect and be responsible and thoughtful, and creative so that when we “jump back out to the concrete world” to See, Do, Connect - we have a way of understanding what is happening that reflects a collective and not individual consciousness. It’s like having a hypothesis in the mindful world and then testing it in the action-ful world.
Below is the description of the diagram above that we put together and described for us by Ramon: The butterfly in the middle is the symbolic metamorphosis that occurs when you/we consciously go around the Infinity 8:
From the (connected) “inside” world of What, Why, How
To the (connected) “outside” world of See, Do, Connect.
a) Little actions bring big changes:
A little story, like a butterfly, can create a (positive) change storm
b) People tell a what (their story) and share it with the rest in search of a why that explains how a bigger effect took (or can take) place. Different people connect in the process to do and action in the world. They see what the effect of the action (doing) was and that is the beginning of another cycle, that could expand to another (meta)level, plane or world.
c) The lower part of the vertical infinity eight hints at the process of working on scanning of potentially good pieces of knowledge (or stories) and people ("spikes") , data gathering, knowledge creation, debate, argumentation, data and knowledge visualization,.
d) The second part of the vertical infinity eight hints at the action in the world, observation of its consequences, and the gathering of knowledge of this process at a different level.
d) If you think about journalism, the lower part is devoted to writing the story. The upper part with telling the story AND creating action in the world as well. So we see the media as place to come up with solutions to questions, which include creating actions in the world to solve them.
e) If you thing about systemic innovation, then the lower part is about gathering knowledge and actors and starting a process The upper part is devoted to actually launch the process into the world and observe its consequences, and then gather new knowledge, specially knowledge about the process of ... systemic innovation.
f) The different colors refer to this different "levels", "planes" or "worlds". The main idea to convey is that the processes are the same everywhere but it creates different effects and different types of knowledge: one level is the meta-level of the other, one world can act as a metalevel for other. In the present icon we have just used the worlds of journalism, education and systemic innovation. So it has a sense of being “fractal” at the individual level, at the team level, at the project level, at the organization level, at an industry level, at the level of a discipline, and within a community, society, nation, world. Black is the abstract notion of the infinite loop we we go round and round, like we write the figure 8.
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