Blue Green Cards: Joint Seeing and Understanding

John Kellden
3 min readApr 23, 2020

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Play: Culture and capability
co-evolving, addressing
needs in ways conducive to
preferable outcomes.

Board

The 2x2 gameboard, the four quadrants on which to place, play and annotate. A social object around which to gather and converse with each other, and weave together new perspectives, new insights and new paths.

Gameboard: new perspectives, new insights, new patterns of interaction and play.

1. Capability
Capability as a function of how attention is turned situational awareness.

2. Need
Need and need fulfillment, as a function of will turned flow.

3. Future Value
Value evolution: engagement, return on engagement and fair distribution, out of which preferable outcomes, as a function of intelligence turned ability.

Don’t go for best practice. Don’t even be fully contented with a superset best options. Go for evolving (dynamics beyond best) economics, ecosystemics, group genius and eudaimonia. Weave new patterns of play between them. Play to Win^n.

4. Culture
Culture, as a function of behavior turned (networks of) agency.

Culture and capability co-evolving, addressing needs in ways conducive to preferable outcomes.

Cards

Decks of Cards:

  • weaving together literacies with future value, building on culture, anticipating and in service to, knowledge, value and need.
  • relevant to understanding, joint understanding and shared understanding.
  • accessing, connecting with and co-evolving with, dynamic knowledge repositories and knowledge commons.
  • addressing sensemaking, joint meaning-making and coordination in a context of complexity.
Cards: new perspectives, new insights, new patterns of interaction and play.

Cards on the Table

  1. Weaving tacit and explicit, building capacity, evolving capability.
  2. Framing and reframing, adding considered comments to the cards, forming a comprenesive view of a systematic unfolding.
  3. Capturing generative questions, annotated cards and boards through iterated gameplay, turning new perspectives, insights and patterns of play into new paths, in service to preferable futures.

Possibility Space: Moving from probable to preferable

Iterated gameplay unfolding paths through possibility spaces, with card sessions enabling play, understanding, moving and trimtabbing ourselves, from probable to preferable: different, better outcomes.

Possibility space: iterated gameplay, generative sequences and paths, moving from probable to preferable.

Joint Seeing and Understanding

Combining individual, small group and collective intelligence, catalyzing and cultivating knowledge (co)creation processes.

Applying our knowledge to intersects of complex adaptive structures and complex responsive processes, discovering creative problem-solving flow.

Extending a newfound sense of ourselves, inviting seeing and understanding, homesteading new places, where we can invite our prefered futures.

Stewarding our joint seeing and understanding, in service to preferable outcomes.

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John Kellden
John Kellden

Written by John Kellden

Tools for navigating complexity, Cards catalyzing stories, Conversations that mind and matter, Digital communities and collaborative narratives

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