At present there is no existing science whose special interest is the combining of pieces of information, and so our linear and siloed-ways of thinking still seem to dominate our discourse, our research, and our approaches to “wicked” issues, as we continue to exacerbate global concerns.
The Warm Data Lab is a systems approach that helps us learn, recognise, and understand patterns and perspectives within living systems, as it reveals relationships that are integral and woven into the complexity of the issues we are working on. Warm Data Labs allow us to see new patterns, new causations, and to respond to them with a much broader comprehension.
The Warm Data Lab process is an exercise for use with groups, who are interested in strengthening and further practicing their collective ability to perceive, discuss, and research complex issues. Participants freely move and connect their contextual framings through their own lens, in their own way. By shifting perspectives through a transcontextual conversational structure, the Warm Data Lab process increases people’s abilities to respond to difficult or “wicked” issues. Because so many of the challenges that we face now are complex, we need approaches to meeting that complexity.
An approach employed by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland, the EU Parliament, and Patagonia’s Environmental Initiatives Division, the Warm Data Lab experience will provide an opportunity to explore, deepen, and shift our understanding of health and wellbeing, as we transcontextually and collectively move towards creating a world we want to live in, that embraces wellbeing for all.