Strategic Metacrisis Mapping Initiative

This initiative will deploy a sophisticated, integrated, and comprehensive philosophy to show what is possible when we leverage Big Pictures to support new forms of sensemaking and meta-strategizing about complex, wicked problems. There is an emerging consensus of a profound, global "metacrisis" characterized by entangled, interpenetrating, and co-arising ecosocial, spiritual, ethical, and epistemic crises, and their underlying network of interconnected root causes. This project will convene the novel intellectual and social resources necessary to map and more fully understand the reality of the global metacrisis and its implications for meaning-making. Leveraging a metatheoretically-integrative Visionary Realism—the project will use a retroductive method to generate a map of causal mechanisms, reality distortions, and symptoms of the global metacrisis's four primary domains assessed across five major worldviews. The project will develop a web-based interactive topology of the metacrisis, innovation lab-style symposia for expert coordination and validation, and one or more papers.

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