Interdisciplinary Dialogical Framework

These references do not constitute a fixed theoretical framework, but a constellation of perspectives that inform this dialogical approach.

They are not intended to produce a single, closed theory, but to create space for connecting insights.

This framework functions as a working room:

a space in which different perspectives can coexist, intersect, and move each other forward.

Each perspective illuminates a different dimension of complex challenges—from systems and structures to human behaviour, meaning, and public space.

It is precisely in the encounter between these perspectives that something new can emerge:

a shared understanding that is not predefined, but develops through dialogue.

A. The world (context)

Where and how interaction takes place, and where it is enabled, strengthened, or put under pressure.

B. Judgement (capacity)

How people perceive, make sense of, and act within that world.

The quality of a society is determined by the quality of encounter.

This quality emerges from the interplay between:

– the systems and structures that enable or undermine interaction, and

– the judgement that develops within that interaction.

A. Conditions. What makes things possible or impossible?

A1. Foundation: Encounter as a source of meaning

Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, David Bohm, Jürgen Habermas

A2. Diagnosis of our time: The crisis of encounter

Hartmut Rosa, Zygmunt Bauman

A3. Manifestation: The human being in a digital society

Sherry Turkle, Jonathan Haidt, Jean Twenge

A4. Structures: Systems that enable or undermine the quality of encounter

A4a. Economy & governance

Elinor Ostrom, Herbert Simon, Mark Granovetter

A4b. Strategy & value

Michael Porter, Henry Mintzberg, James Brian Quinn, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller, Noriaki Kano, Cees Storm, Tim Koller

A4c. System dynamics & transformation

Donella Meadows, Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Gregory Bateson

A5. Space: Where encounter takes place—or does not

Jan Gehl, Jacob Moreno, Jane Jacobs, Ray Oldenburg, Robert Putnam, Richard Florida, Pierre Bourdieu

B. Capacity. What do people do with that possibility?

B1. Perceiving, seeing what is actually going on

Michael Polanyi

B2. Interpreting, making sense without fixed rules, weighing perspectives

Hannah Arendt

B3. Acting, intervening in the moment

Questioning, slowing down, improvising under uncertainty

Donald Schön

The quality of living together ultimately emerges from the relationship between these two dimensions.

These references do not form a closed system, but a set of perspectives that nourish and develop this dialogical framework.