Stage 1: Actants

• There are a series of changes from a year ago when we only looked at constraints and constructors as the things to be mapped
• The goal is to get people to identify things that can be managed, and the typologies are a means to that end, not an end in themselves
• Changing how actants interact will be more effective and ethical unless you push it to extremes
  • Trying to change mindsets, mental models, etc, has questionable ethics and won’t work at scale

• Actant framework is useful in the broader field of complex adaptive systems
  • If it acts within the CAS, it’s an actant
  • 3 types of actants
    • Constraints can connect or contain and be resilient or robust
      • 3 resilient constraint types are permeable, phase shift, and dark
      • 3 robust types are rigid, elastic, and tether
    • Constructors transport
      • by passage (such as a ritual or a process)
      • by contagion
      • by their presence (this includes a Panopticon Effect)
    • Actors can be
      • roles (which can include experts as well as organisational roles)
      • a collective such as a team
      • an individual (rarely)