Abstract Many challenges that confront today’s society are complex and dynamic and require new perspectives to arrive at solutions that could not be found before. Finding such new perspectives is part of a process called reframing and one of its key stages is theme investigation. Understanding a problem thoroughly is crucial for creating effective solutions and theme investigation offers insight into human and social themes that underlie complex challenges. This article discusses how to investigate such themes, to deepen our understanding, to find a starting point for reframing and creating innovative solutions. This work explicitly experiments with variation (conceptual, personal, and methodological) as a guiding principle for investigating human themes in real life cases. A process, best practices, instruments and tools for theme investigation are presented and discussed.

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通过主题调查发现新观点

摘要当今社会面临的许多挑战是复杂而动态的，需要新的视角来寻求以前无法找到的解决方案。找到这样的新观点是重新框架过程的一部分，其关键阶段之一是主题调查。彻底理解问题对于创建有效的解决方案至关重要，主题调查可以洞察构成复杂挑战的人类和社会主题。本文讨论了如何研究这些主题，加深我们的理解，找到了重新设计和创建创新解决方案的起点。这项工作明确地以变化（概念，个人和方法论）作为实验原理来研究现实生活中的人类主题。流程，最佳做法，