Sensemaking
Sensemaking or sense-making is a process by which a large population of people are able to give meaning to their collective experiences, referred to as story-based or narrative-based assessment, and 'the first form of scalable ethnography'.
Video Tutorials
The video below automatically starts at the 6:13 mark, and is an excellent primer on sensemaking by Dave Snowden.
The video below documents the sensemaking process with a community in Africa
Resources
- Open Participatory Organization (OPO) - A self organization system that utilizes sensemaking.
- Collective Presencing - A study in sensemaking through collective presencing, sourced from the Art of Hosting co-creation framework.
- SenseMaker - A widely used sensemaking tool developed by Cynefin, Dave Snowden
- Narrative-Based Transdisciplinary Research Using the SenseMaker Tool - A case study site explaining sensemaking in Africa.
- A pilot SenseMaker scan to track ecosystem health, mutualistic, co-creative behavior - Please do not submit any scans! See screenshot below:
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Case Study
