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Hexintegration : A New Effective Way to Facilitate Transdisciplinary Projects

Transdisciplinary shared thinking does not come easily in a culture dominated by specialisation, fragmentation, debate and argument. Hexintegration has been designed and developed to provide a collaborative process that rebalances human interaction to encourage cross-cutting and holistic approaches to complex challenges. It achieves this through:

1. Establishing a relaxed and congenial working climate
2. Utilizing that climate to support the contribution of vital knowledge in heartfelt ways
3. Providing a means of capturing and relating knowledge content so that it is available for thinking and dialogue
4. Using flexible visual representation of patterning of connections between items of knowledge to help provoke new insights
5. Introducing appropriate forms of systems or interconnected thinking that introduce higher level ways of seeing holistic implications
6. Applying interaction protocols that ensure all possible relevant connections are explored
7. Facilitating a balance between interactive discipline as in 4 and creative dialogue for emergence of new insights
8. Ensuring supportive disciplines for interfacing with planning and decision making to ensure coherent follow through.

The above conditions draw on Geddes’ Three Ss , namely sympathy, synergy, and synthesis.

Ideally establishing  the above working conditions for hexintegration and related methods, the space and facilities for visual group work have to be well designed. The link gives a suggestion for a custom designed facility.

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