Axioms+(7)

= AXIOMS OF DIALOGIC DESIGN SCIENCE : =


 * = **__The Complexity Axiom__****: Social systems designing is a multi-dimensional challenge. It demands that observational variety be respected when engaging observers/stakeholders in dialogue, while making sure that their cognitive limitations are not violated in our effort to strive for comprehensiveness (John Warfield).** =


 * = **__The Engagement Axiom__****: Designing social systems, such as health care, education, cities, communities, without the authentic engagement of the stakeholders is unethical, and results in inferior plans that are not implementable (Hasan Ozbekhan). ** =


 * = **__The Investment Axiom:__ S****takeholders engaged in designing their own social systems must make personal investments of trust, committed faith, or sincere hope, in order to be effective in discovering shared understanding and collaborative solutions (Tom Flanagan).** =

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 * = **__The Logic Axiom:__ Appreciation of distinctions and complementarities among inductive, deductive and retroductive logics is essential for a futures-creative understanding of the human being. Retroductive logic makes provision for leaps of imagination as part of value-and emotion-laden inquiries by a variety of stakeholders (Norma Romm and Maria Kakoulaki).** **  =
 * = **__The Epistemological Axiom:__** **A comprehensive science of the human being should inquire about human life in its totality of thinking, wanting, telling, and feeling, like the indigenous people and the ancient Athenians were capable of doing. It should not be dominated by the traditional Western epistemology that reduced science to only intellectual dimensions (LaDonna Harris and Reynaldo Trevino).** =
 * =__ **The Boundary-Spanning Axiom:** __ **A science of dialogue empowers stakeholders to act beyond borders in designing symbiotic social systems that enable people from all walks of life to bond across possible cultural, religious, racialized, and disciplinary barriers and boundaries, as part of an enrichment of their repertoires for seeing, feeling and acting (loanna Tsivacou and Norma Romm).** =
 * = **__The Reconciliation of Power Axiom__: Social Systems designing aims to reconcile individual and institutional power relations that are persistent and embedded in every group of stakeholders and their concerns, by honoring Requisite Variety of distinctions and perspectives as manifested in the Arena (Peter Jones)** =

Also see the table that elaborates on Norma Romm's conceptualization of retroductive logic: See from Norma RA Romm's book entitled New Racism, published by Springer.
 * We recently produced a Webinar on the futures-creative Archetype (Archetype D) as applied in the arena of Assistive Technology with a group of stakeholders fron Region 3 of Michigan. You can view it in: []