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Frames Theory Can we build an interpretive community around 'Frames Theory'?


 * WHERE TO START:** See my [|blog post] for initial definitions.

Let's create some pages, and see what we see? Feel free to add content, organise, edit, and format this wiki.

Steve Collis


 * Click on one of these below and propose an example:**

Organisational Frames

Sequence Frames

Narrative Frames

Explanatory Frames

Case Studies

Possible lines of inquiry, or areas for discussion:

Frames theory = toolkit for the generalist, since it crosses disciplines & fields of study. = cross-pollination mechanism = method for what Nassim Taleb calls 'stochastic tinkering', i.e. random tinkering. In fact frames theory will resist a 'master plan' approach to innovation since that master plan would contain its own E-Frames and N-Frames... nevertheless this is permissible.

O-Frames = words are O-Frames but they are complex cases, since meaning is multiple and elastic, but I think we can defend an ambiguous 'centres of gravity' model of linguistic O-Frames, e.g. more or less likely meanings for the word 'chair'. Words are O-Frames because they bundle associations, e.g. '4 legs', 'can sit on it', 'can buy at Ikea' = ok so Plato's theory of forms isn't far from O-Frames, although he thought they were real, but Frames Theory says no such thing.

Conventions = I played with the convention of always putting square brackets around the word 'frame' i.e. [frames] when using the theory to refer to these specific terms. Too much bother?