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Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.
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MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 hHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-810-502-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
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Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized DirectionAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
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SensemakingDecisionRationale
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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