Multilevel perspective mapping

• Originated by Frank Geels (2002) Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes. See diagram
  • Landscape developments - an example of this could be exploitation of the commons
  • Socio-technical regimes - stable point of system. Rules and norms, and where we live our everyday lives.
  • Technological niches - Innovations from the niche can change the socio-technical reigems. For example, online shopping
• The map is not the territory - perception
  • A photo of a place is a map, and a map is a map - neither are the place itself, the experience
• Mapping for problem articulation and identifying leverage points
• Bateson asks us to ask what change is happening when we see change - at what levels.
• Change is elusive. Pick something up with your hand and drop it - and it'll feel different from the other hand
  • Attempting change often results in tightening the knots of the problems trying to solve
• Niki's challenges to MLP is that it. doesn't account for people's lived experience
  • The aim is not to convince people to change - that would be an enactment of power over them. Just show them...but you're doing that with the map - it has authority
  • Provide opportunities for change to emerge
• The representation of the map affects how useful it is
  • Niki structures it as a hole - with niches represented across every layer
  • And can affect how to identify leverage points
• maps

Last update: 2022-02-26 22:23