Practices:Causal Layered Analysis

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'''Causal Layered Analysis''' -- or 'post-structuralism as method' -- is a method which asks a series of questions that dig down through levels of information and understanding and communication about issues and the future, from the conversational and everyday, to technological and systems explanations, to worldviews and mental models, down to deep cultural myths and metaphors.
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===Method definiton===
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Subtitle:  'poststructuralism as method' -- this method asks a series of questions that dig down through levels of information and understanding and communication about issues and the future, from the conversational and everyday, to technological and systems explanations, to worldviews and mental models, down to deep cultural myths and metaphors.  See the various writings of Sohail Inayatullah at Metafutures, and also The Causal Analysis Reader
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eg, CLA used to build scenarios about the future of civil society in the UK, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland ([http://democracy.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/civil_society/publications/making_good_society Making Good Society]).  Wendy to offer lessons learned story.
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Causal Layered Analysis -- or 'post-structuralism as method' -- is a method which asks a series of questions that dig down through levels of information and understanding and communication about issues and the future, from the conversational and everyday, to technological and systems explanations, to worldviews and mental models, down to deep cultural myths and metaphors.

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