Thinking Together in a Fractured World: Reflections After Chicago

In January, my colleague and former graduate student, Brian Jones, and I traveled to Chicago to meet with social systems scholar Alexander “Alecos” Christakis and his colleague, Jeff Deitrich. Our aim was to engage in a technical and scholarly conversation to explore whether two complementary approaches—Structured Dialogic Design (SDD) and a newer method developed by Brian: Values Evaluation,…