ScriptsMap: A tool for designing multi-method policy-making workshops

The paper will illustrate ScriptsMap's structure through an example of the use of the framework in practice, and the combination of system dynamics group model building and group problem structuring incorporating causal mapping with theUse of a Group Support System is used.

Abstract

This paper reports on the development and structure of a framework – ScriptsMap – intended to facilitate the design of mixed method policy-making workshops. The ScriptsMap framework aims to provide a means of articulating and combining activities (which a script specifies) from two or more methods so that a facilitator or group facilitation team can construct, with the framework’s aid, a thoughtful and careful design for a workshop. To provide an example of the framework, the combination of system dynamics group model building and group problem structuring incorporating causal mapping with the use of a Group Support System is used. The paper will illustrate ScriptsMap’s structure through an example of the use of the framework in practice.