# Exapt # Stress-based Exaptation In a crisis or Chaos: * Scan assets using ASHEN and repurpose whatever is at hand, doing something is better than nothing. * Leverage opportunities where something has been commodified. * Separate needs or challenges from knowledge, to enable recombination. * Look for novel combinations of roles, processes, paradigms, values, assets, capabilities and connections. * Weave learnings into design of Briefs, Goals and Missions as well as interventions.
# Simulated Exaptation If you're in Chaos by choice: * Use Probing Crews if they're already set up, nurture competencies and capabilities over relying on methods. * Remove constraints and conceptual boundaries, reframe the problem, think in concepts and metaphors, challenge the norm. * Explore unreasonable ideas. * Use Boundary objects to understand the disposition of the organisation and the wider landscape. * Use Speculative Design and conceptual prototypes to explore Adjacent Possibles. * Challenge assumptions, preconceptions and paradigms. * Replace filtering of any outputs generated by reflection, with abstract signification. * Dampen activity which isn't working # Dispositional Exaptation If you're designing for exaptation: * Design strategic interventions and Conceptual Scaffolding canvases. * Design SNS interventions, making generative use of informal networks. * Design Organisation structures and processes to create novel could connections based on experiences. * Entangle novel combinations of roles in action based research experiments. * Choreograph (Stage and Structure) fractal engagements of: Individuals; Triads; Groups; and Plenary, to ritualise knowledge exchange. * Design harvesting methods to collect needs or challenges and Knowledge, using templates which produce actionable outputs. * Capture Rich Data. * Challenge roles, question the problem space, but maintain coherence. Don't break constraints that can't be restored. * Ensure needs or challenges and knowledge are separated, to enable novel re-combinations to be made.