Corrie van Wijk
15-02-2008, 10:42 AM
July 15, 2005. The Thatched Cottage
David is standing in the shadow of a tree on the grass of the backyard. He is wearing one of John's designs, a dark grey pair of shorts and a green shirt. We are sitting in a circle around him. He tells the chicken-and-egg story:
"The egg is in the grass, but it gets pretty hot out there (we could all relate to that, since it was a hot summer day). It starts complaining, so we take it up and put it in a cave. After a while we hear it crying and when we go in there it says it's lonely. So we take it out again and put it between the branches of a tree, so it can be with the birds. But then it gets kind of scary, because it doesn't feel very safe out there. (egg-type problems: keeps going, narrative, no solution in problem-space)
So we find a good old hen that sits on the egg and then everything is allright for the egg. (chicken-solution: outside boundary conditions, hen-type world to solve a chicken-type problem: how can we move the client's perspective outside the problem domain)
David is standing in the shadow of a tree on the grass of the backyard. He is wearing one of John's designs, a dark grey pair of shorts and a green shirt. We are sitting in a circle around him. He tells the chicken-and-egg story:
"The egg is in the grass, but it gets pretty hot out there (we could all relate to that, since it was a hot summer day). It starts complaining, so we take it up and put it in a cave. After a while we hear it crying and when we go in there it says it's lonely. So we take it out again and put it between the branches of a tree, so it can be with the birds. But then it gets kind of scary, because it doesn't feel very safe out there. (egg-type problems: keeps going, narrative, no solution in problem-space)
So we find a good old hen that sits on the egg and then everything is allright for the egg. (chicken-solution: outside boundary conditions, hen-type world to solve a chicken-type problem: how can we move the client's perspective outside the problem domain)