Systems-change practice can be applied to many different kinds of systems, and capacity-development takes shape in different ways in different places. We require the means for enabling communities on-the-ground to publish working on systems evolution in their own ways, whilst also serving communities in different places, up to global-scale levels of complexity. We address this two-scale intention with a distributed development approach, so communities can develop their own means of publication.
In this way, a structured moment in time is required for two reasons, simultaneously:
- For multiple stakeholders to converge towards realising system transformation, in order to make visible how systems-change practice takes shape when applied in a real-world context.
- To publish those accounts of systems-change with their own means, making their work and its value visible in a way that is grounded in the uniqueness of that place.
By embedding the software development process within the process of organising a systemic intervention, we address both at the same time with one “event:” the products of the software development are an enabler of the intervention itself, and the process of organising participatory action, grounded in place,[^21] informs the capabilities the software aims to unlock. We call these events Action-Learning Journeys. Hence, the concept of Prisma, repeated below for convenience:
Prisma is a distributed action-learning incubator, who’s work is to apply systems-change practice on-the-ground in spaces of experimentation in order to unlock whole-system transition pathways.
The core formula of our methodology is simple:
Organise an action-learning journey → to publish a case-study.
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