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Creative Action: Making the Strategic Workfield Map
A Creative Moment

The picture above captures a creative moment in the process of designing a new Thematic Map for the Ecological Strategic Cognition framework (v2.2).
The outcome is Strategic Workfield: The House of Ecological Strategic Cognition.

Over the past several months, I’ve been developing a new type of diagram called the Thematic Map, which visually presents 8–12 primary themes of a knowledge framework or system.
Each map is structured within a square, requiring me to create a unique spatial arrangement every time.
It’s both a creative challenge and an enjoyable process!
So, how did I create this one?
Where did my ideas come from?
See the diagram below.

My initial inspiration came from the diagram of the Anticipatory Activity System (AAS) framework, a core model in Strategic Life Theory. However, rather than…