Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: Hodges' model as a Leitbild framework

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Hodges' model as a Leitbild framework


individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group

(to ensure, process, distribute,
use, maintain, use,
and preserve human service demands)
= PURPOSE




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TECHNOLOGY

ECOLOGY (as Nature)

related activities*

distribute   'hard systems'  use

PROCESS

A
N
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Sociology

'soft systems'

*behaviours
Politics

economy

STANDARDS

ensure (assure)

Image and reference:
Klug, H., 2012. An integrated holistic transdisciplinary landscape planning concept after the Leitbild approach. Ecological Indicators 23, 616–626. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.05.019

“A Leitbild (pl. Leitbilder) is a summary statement describing a desired and releasable future state for a specific issue or spatial unit, which takes account of the primary objectives and drivers in a holistic and integrated way. All present knowledge is used to balance future constraints and demands from social, economic, cultural, political and environmental perspectives. Therefore, a commonly accepted Leitbild projects a specified trajectory for the future spatial structure, distribution, utilisation, condition and development of the socio-natural system. It provides a set of guidelines that shape actions, and a framework within which the impact of particular developments can be judged and socially negotiated.” p.617.