Synthesis
a game for generating collective thought
The other instruments spread a group across many questions. Synthesis goes the other way: one idea, taken apart together — everyone adds the context behind their own thinking, and the group votes on the statements it can stand behind.
An idea is a thought space you draft and invite people into — a question worth a group's attention. Its title sits at the centre of everyone's map, and the idea becomes whatever its collaborators put underneath it. Up to fifty people, each under the name on their Holoscopic account.
- Think privately firstGrow your own map of the idea — hubs, thoughts, the context behind each one. It stays yours until you publish it.
- Respond, and carry it homeAnswering someone's published thought places your stance on their post and drops a linked copy onto your own map. Add your own thinking to it and it becomes yours.
- Take the unionOne read of everything the group has published, cited back to who said what. Edit it into words you would stand behind, and put those to the group.
- Find synthesisEveryone holds three slots, shared between writing statements and backing them. When two thirds of the group stands behind one, the idea is in synthesis.
Synthesis is a living measure
It stays live. Backing moves, better words arrive, new people join — and the measure follows. Anyone who reads where the group landed and sees it differently can put up their own words and move it. Getting there is the group's achievement, and so is finding better.
Synthesis ran at synthesis.holoscopic.io. The demo plays in your browser on sample data; nothing you do is sent anywhere.
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