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Narrative Studies

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We are always mindful that a whole constellation of narratives plays out at the same time, and the understanding of identity is cast in the narrative structure of life and communal stories.

Chené Swart • Re-Authoring the World: The Narrative Lens and Practices for Organisations, Communities and Individuals

This results in the creation of vast bureaucratic flatlands—a world of abstract data and reports.21 Vast representations of reality that are disembodied and exist purely on screens become the place where our decision makers, planners, and donors engage with the reality of their decisions, designs, political power, and resource deployment.

Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution

From an organizational standpoint, narratives set norms and standards that do much to drive behaviors.

Stanley McChrystal • Risk

Smaller units (individuals, communities, etc.) have efficient but localized forms of doing a thing. The doing of the thing is plugged into a much larger worldview which explains both how to do the thing and why you do the thing — James Scott calls that metis. When a larger unit (states, corporations, what have you) subsumes the smaller unit, it... See more

Aaron Z. Lewis • Metaphors we believe by

Stories are a calm anchor amid the storm of uncertainty. And in uncertain in-between times, the stories we tell ourselves are powerful frameworks that help us work out who we are in the present moment and what we value. They lure us into becoming our aspirational selves.

Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures

Identifying stakeholder beliefs, assumptions and cultural norms: Although some traditional problems-solving approaches consider user preferences and motivations, they seldom consider the ways in which individual and collective stakeholder beliefs, assumptions and cultural norms have contributed to the problem.

Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU

Governance as Storytelling: Rewriting the myths of power

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Where or from what in this problem story do you take your identity? • What is the story you have lived into so far? • Given this constellation, what conclusions did you draw or what decisions did it lead to? • What occurs in your life that confirms these conclusions?