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"Figure–ground organization
is probably best known by the
faces–vase drawing that Edgar Rubin described.[1][2]
This drawing exemplifies one of the key aspects of
figure–ground organization, edge-assignment and its effect on
shape perception."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure%E2%80%93ground_(perception)
Figure and Ground are more
important in FLOW because of the accompanying models of
Subject-Object Development, of which Kegan has written the
most about and Perry has done the most original work.
For now, it's important to notice
the figure and ground of perception, but also the swapping of
each to understand how making one thing the context for the
other shifts meaning significantly.
In sense making, at least as how I
see part of it, we need to understand the e5, where there are
relationships between the various levels of making sense.
In my experience with making sense,
or meaning-making in general, I find that content and context,
often can be seen in different ways depending on the varying
levels of content-context relationships. To me, people
with capability can rotate these to represent different ideas,
such as shifting the figure and ground.
Figure and Ground can mean several
different things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_and_ground
Something not referenced here is
the idea of shifting figure and ground, as example, say in
technology and resources:
With technology, steam became a
resource that we could use and manage through the technology.
So which is the resource, the steam, or the work it can do?
Did the work it can do, become a
resource...and therefore did technology create a resource, or
just make it so that we can manage one that existed?
We are on the edge of a boom in
human understanding, and it will use a variety of
sense-making, as we use sense-creating tools and resources.
When I suggest shifts in figure and
ground --> do you see the old lady, vs. the young lady? Those
requests are important because they shift the frame of the
lens in ways that might not have seemed natural, but of course
exist.
To take this deeper, we can then
begin to see shifts in subject and object as figure and
ground evolution. That in many cases gives us objectivity
that can provide a different sense of things, different
meaning, and different ways of understanding how our lens may
be focusing on the idea with the least amount of leverage, or
not.
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