Multilem and hexagonal logic as a tool for social creativity: on a case of participatory urbanism

Abstract

Being the workshops inherent in participatory methodologies, these are determined as «a participatory process [that] entails the return of information to the same population, group or group, so that, duly supported by appropriate techniques, be these people who deepen, prioritize and plan their own strategies «(Red CIMAS, 2015). In this regard, one of the tools used by the CIMAS Network for these participatory returns are the so-called multilemmas or tetralemas (Villasante, 2006). From these, it is intended to make a group reflection on what has been said that comes out of the blocks that behave by promoting the emerging axes: the tension between the «is» and the «must be» (Colectio IOE, 2016). With this objective, they must follow three criteria of logical rigor (Villasante, 2006): take into account both the majority and minority positions, with the intention of avoiding discursive exclusion (Herzog, 2009) and keep in mind that «everything is relevant» (Montañés, 2002), look for friction points as oppositions –the dilemmas– (Conde, 2010) and look for contradictions in the social sense –the tensions– (Harvey, 2014), and listen to the questions to the questions that facilitate the subversión (Ibáñez, 1990).