Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files === Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) === Causal Layered Analysis is a futures research method focusing on in-depth analysis of current issues and identifying alternative futures. The analysis happens in four levels: litany, social or systemic causes, discourse/worldview and myth/metaphor. Litany identifies current issues, assumptions, facts and data. In the next layer the social or systemic causes underlying the 'litany' are analysed. In the discourse layer the dominant worldviews and mindsets are examined, which give rise to the issues. The deepest layer looks at the foundational myths, metaphors and archetypes that influence the unconscious and/or emotional undertone beneath the issues. After understanding the layered causes of an issue, the method suggest to look at alternatives - either within each layer or beginning with a new myth/metaphor and working up through the layers to create an alternative scenario. From the scenario new possibilities can be distilled and translated into solutions, policies, and other types of actions that one can begin implementing in the present. <html><a href="https://38.media.tumblr.com/7aca57b3f430dad3779e1a054584edd0/tumblr_inline_mzybcuGj911qc578m.jpg"><img src="https://38.media.tumblr.com/7aca57b3f430dad3779e1a054584edd0/tumblr_inline_mzybcuGj911qc578m.jpg"></a></html> === Process === CLA abridged: * Step 1: define the issue (or question) * Step 2: Discuss each layer separately (litany, systemic, worldview, myth/metaphor) * Step 3: Cluster into themes (ideally 1-2 themes per layer) * Step 4: After reaching the bottom layer, pick a different myth/narrative and create a scenario by moving up the other layers, up to the new events and behaviours in 'litany'. In detail: {{page>:futurist_fieldguide/uncovering_causality#process}} {{page>:futurist_fieldguide/discovering_alternatives#process}} ==== References ==== * [[http://scenariosforsustainability.org/recipes/cla.html|Scenarios for sustainability]] * [[http://proutglobal.info/slideshows/training/Related%20web%20pages/002-Casual_Layered_Analysis.pdf|Causal Layered Analysis: Poststructuralism as a method]] * [[http://metafuture.org/cla%20papers/Inayatullah%20%20Causal%20layered%20analysis%20-%20theory,%20historical%20context,%20and%20case%20studies.%20Intro%20chapter%20from%20The%20CLA%20Reader..pdf|CLA Reader]] Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International futurist_fieldguide/causal_layered_analysis.1432040384.txt.gz Last modified: 2015-05-19 12:59by maja