Developing a common picture

When six people talk to each other, they have six different models of reality in their heads which the other five do not know, and that at best they can only guess at. This changes immediately when they all have a common visible point of reference: A graphic to which everyone contributes what they see and find important around a certain topic. Assured knowledge becomes visible and interrelated, dissent becomes negotiable.

• With the constellation analysis our interdisciplinary work considers the precise description of a concrete problem situation and a concrete common idea of what the solution of this problem situation could look like.
• With interdependency analysis, we work out the critical points, mutual dependencies and dangerous dynamics in complex (infrastructure) systems.

This is useful, for example, in inter- and transdisciplinary R&D work, or in the risk analysis of complex infrastructure systems.

Project selection Constellation analysis

• IWRM − Integrated Water Resources Management Zayandeh Rud
• RePro − Resources from the Land
• Roof Water-Farm

Project selection Interdependency analysis

• KIRMin: Critical Infrastructure Resilience
• SAFEFRESH − Microbiological safety of foodstuffs
• SIMKAS 3D − Intersectoral cascade effects