Pattering in Space

Patterning in Space concepts address here-and-now systemic interrelationships. We can use them to make sense of our own internal workings, to better understand relationships of every sort (from intimate bonds to the bonds of communities, institutions and nations), and of particular pertinence for today, to teasing apart the complexly interrelated implications of our present human condition.  Patterning in Space discriminations address creative relativity in the here and now, to one’s place in a system’s diversity.  They describes how our inner and outer worlds are each profoundly plural.

A full Patterning in Space analysis overlays each of the systems pertinent to the question one wants to examine.  Thus a person wanting to address how best to proceed with a specific project might want also to look at the temperaments of key people involved, the kind of project (is it more R&D, administrative, marketing?) and the sphere of culture in which the project would have its primary effect (how one appropriately approaches a project in the military, in a church, on Wall Street, or in an art studio may be very different).

Creative Systems Theory proposes that the same basic architecture that orders creation over time also orders human difference.  Analogous creative patterns define the complexities of our individual psyches, temperament differences, disciplines in a university, departments in a business or governmental organization, and the various functions—from education, to religion, to government, to sports—that make up society as a dynamic whole system.

A good place to see this is with personality style differences. A bare-boned look at how CST approaches temperament distinctions begins with the notion the different personality styles are most gifted in relationship to different stages in formation process (they most embody the intelligences needed to support those creative tasks).  Using CST language, more “Early-Axis” types have greatest natural affinity with more “inspiration stage” sensibilities, more “Middle-Axis” types with more “perspiration stage” sensibilities, and more “Late-Axis” types with more “finishing and polishing” sensibilities.

We can identify the basic contours of Early-, Middle-, and Late-Axis personality differences fairly readily in the goings on of daily life.  Within a business, we have the wild creatives and nerdy “eggheads” over in research and development.  We have the managers and workers who take R and D’s innovations and get them first into a practical form and then into production.  And we have  the marketing and financial types who add ideas about what is needed to make the product attractive to its buyers, take care of money matters, and do the selling.

A full Patterning in Space analysis overlays each of the systems pertinent to the question one wants to examine.  Thus that person wanting to address how best to proceed with a specific project might want also to look at the temperaments of key people involved, the kind of project (is it more R&D, administrative, marketing?) and the sphere of culture in which the project would have its primary effect (how one appropriately approaches a project in the military, in a church, on Wall Street, or in an art studio may be very different).

The Creative Systems Personality Typology has its own website.  (See CSPTHome.org)