… extends the enactive concept of sense-making into the social domain. It takes as its departure point the process of interaction between individuals in a social encounter. Hanne De Jaegher, who defined the term, argues that the interaction process itself can take on a form of autonomy.
Using participatory sense-making as a lense, we looked at different degrees of co-exchange, co-responsibility, co-existence and co-creation. Rather than looking to pinpoint the best way, the research allowed for a discussion on different approaches in enabling participatory sense-making and how situations evolve in various ways depending on a variety of approaches and settings initiated by the facilitator.
The research focused on how the facilitator can create a field for flourishing interaction. Our findings not only support identifying the facilitator's approaches, but also lay open the agency that is brought to participants inside participatory settings.
For deeper insights how we used participatory sense-making as a lense to to analyse participation and the facilitator role we recommend to check the paper Withdrawing the Performer - facilitating participatory sense-making published in Reposition 2024
