Patterns as, and Via Actants

Summary

A roaming post in which Dave Snowden, creator of the Cynefin framework, explains ‘actants’: “any entity that can act to influence a network”, human or not. Walking the slate trails of Eryri, where he grew up, he reads land and people that have shaped each other through history and story: “We are a storied race, and culture starts there.”

Rationale

In ‘actants’, our interviewee Dave has a word for something we found: places and things shape dispositions alongside the stories told about them.