With point of departure in the question: "Have you wondered how people make sense of your IA reports? Add your questions and considerations to help me addressing important aspects", the following comments and questions were made:
- "How to communicate our knowledge to different disciplines?" (institution researchers political scientists, etc)
- "I face a situation where actors have fixed and conflicting "senses" - can I "shake" their senses to get further in the (stuck) process??"
- "The decision-makers never grasp the essence of our report!!"
- "What do people notice when they read our report? What do they unwillingly ignore?"
- "Why do people not understand the report as we intended?"
- "Providing the same data on e.g. a project's impact on birds, different interpretations arise among actors. These understandings are very fixed and agreement is very difficult. The question is how can I make people agree on the importance of the impacts? I have good experiences with using other presentation forms (models, pictures, dialogues on spot) that improves the communication"
If I have forgot your comments - or you have other input - please send them to me!
So how did people make sense of the sense-making poster at IAIA10? Practitioners seemed to acknowledge the potential of sense-mkaing in relation to their problems in practice and academia seemed to relate sense-making to their discipline and thus vieweing it in a certain frame, e.g. communication theory.