CREATING MULTIDIMENSIONAL PATHWAYS
Knowledge needs to be integrated.
If we want to drive change, we need to rethink how we collect, share, and navigate information. We need pipelines that synthesize and integrate across fields and communities. And we need a system that honors community insights, proactively seeks out competing points of view, and belongs to everyone.
Knowledge-building is a team effort, but we live in a siloed world where most of our echo chambers and media outlets are limited to just a few points of view.
If we want to build collective understanding, we need to capture collective knowledge. We need to get creative in pulling the threads of an issue together from across siloed fields and nuances. We need to integrate art and design with science, scholarship, and traditional ways of knowing. We need to create accessible pockets in every community for openness, sensemaking, and exploration, where you can lean into the competing evidence, sit with uncertainty, take the time to digest information, and come to informed conclusions. We need to incorporate all manners of information processing: intellectual, creative, experiential, and social.
We are working towards a world where there are inclusive, multifaceted, and exploratory learning pathways for every critical issue that we face.
Where the discernment of scholars, the realities of communities, the wisdom of practitioners, and the insights of artists can more easily converge to bring us closer to truly understanding the many facets of the issues that matter.