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Inventive Parcellation

On finding your place.

There are multiple ways to structure inventive intervention internally. For Conciliatorics, we focus on Inventive Parcellation. We respect and welcome alternative structures, but this one is necessary for the current state of Conciliatorics. Any alternative model must integrate with it.

  • INVENTIVE PARCELLATION: Primary structure of inventive intervention.

  • INVENTIVE APPROACH: Method of inventive intervention.

  • INVENTIVE POSITION: Focus of inventive intervention.

These are not autonomous dynamics. Every time an intervener performs inventive intervention, there is a method and a focus related to that behavior. Each parcellation places an emphasis. The other mandatory elements — behavior, member, medium, system — are still present.

Approach and position

The next cut is where that emphasis sits.

  • CONTEMPLATION: Inventive approach with emphasis on the intervener. Relates to knowledge building and judgement.

  • TRANSFORMATION: Inventive approach with emphasis on the system. Relates to concrete change and performance.

  • INTRINSICALITY: Inventive position with emphasis on the intervenable. Relates to direct engagement and inherent properties.

  • INTERSTITIALITY: Inventive position with emphasis on the systemic. Relates to intangible outcomes and relational properties.

Inventive ParcellationInventive ParcellationInventive ApproachInventive PositionContemplationTransformationIntrinsicalityInterstitiality
Contemplation and Transformation are the more familiar of the two pairs. Their difference is whether the intervener is building knowledge of a given arrangement of Behavior Dynamics, or facilitating a change that reorganizes those elements. Intrinsicality and Interstitiality need more care, because ordinary language collapses them. Imagine that you have a *ceramic mug*. You grow attached to it, to the point that you call it "your mug". One day you lose that mug, and someone gifts you a *glass mug*. You start using it, but it is not "your mug". **Ceramic** and **glass** are intrinsic: they belong to the materials the mug is made of, and they would still be ceramic and glass if no one ever loved the object. A mug being **yours** is interstitial. It arises from the relation you develop with it over time, and it is not inherent to you or to the mug.

The same cut appears elsewhere. The chemical composition of a river is intrinsic. That the same river is a border between two states is interstitial: nothing in the water is a border.

Inventive Parcels

An extended analysis of the four elements in isolation may be interesting. In this model they are never isolated, so we move to their configurations.

  • INVENTIVE PARCELS: Main configurations of inventive parcellation: Intrinsic Contemplation, Intrinsic Transformation, Interstitial Contemplation, and Interstitial Transformation.
INVENTIVE PARCELSIntrinsicalityInterstitiality
ContemplationIntrinsic ContemplationInterstitial Contemplation
TransformationIntrinsic TransformationInterstitial Transformation

These four can be small actions or large endeavors. They can be performed by a single intervener or by many, and they can develop in a contained way or over time. They are never, in this model, four unrelated practices. We turn next to the parcels that progress continuously.