Journal
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 30-47Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/sd.497
Keywords
rich pictures; group work; sustainable development; stakeholder engagement
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The European Union Framework Package 7 project POINT (Policy Influence of Indicators) is exploring the use of indicators in several domains (most specifically sustainable development) to see how their value and ultimate usefulness can be maximized. One key aspect of POINT is to assess the ways in which groups and communities work to make the greatest use of information. Using an innovative methodology called Triple Task, the authors are applying a three-cornered approach to gain an understanding of how groups work, how they assesses themselves and how they appear to function from an external perspective. In this paper, the first stage of Triple Task is described and explored. Task One is effectively a soft means for a group to work together on problem identification and action planning, and the key to this is the device known as the Rich Picture. Rich Pictures have been used in group work for over 30 years, primarily as a means for the group to express its preliminary vision concerning a matter of common concern, but so far they have not been applied as a means to explore the conscious and unconscious workings of a group nor have they been assessed in terms of their content and message. By understanding the group mind as represented in a picture the authors begin to gain a deeper understanding of the group's own potential to use and exploit information of all kinds and to move towards a deeper Sustainable Group Mind, and a more focused means to problem solve. Copyright (c) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
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