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'''Triggering Question''' is a term used in the context of [[Dialogic Design Science]]. It refers to the key question used to initiate a [[Structured Dialogic Design Process]].
'''Triggering Question''' is a term used in the context of [[Dialogic Design Science]]. It refers to the key question used to initiate an SDDP: [[Structured Dialogic Design Process]].


Triggering questions are very important mainly because they help the [[Lead SDD Facilitator]] to keep the discussion focused on the subject, and because they prompt the participants to think and formulate innovative responses. The robin-round process of collecting their responses also helps level out power differences among them and encourages them to think outside of the box and see challenges they would otherwise miss and/or generate new solutions around a provocative possibility.
Triggering questions are very important mainly because they help the [[Lead SDD Facilitator]] to keep the discussion focused on the subject, and because they prompt the participants to think and formulate innovative responses. For example, during the first phase of an [[Structured Dialogic Design Process|SDDP], the [[Lead SDD Facilitator]] collects single-sentence responses to the Triggering Question. This leaves no space for the participants to start talking about something else, vis-à-vis, if they do so, the facilitator can always remind them of the process. The robin-round process of collecting their responses also helps level out power differences among them and encourages them to think outside of the box and see challenges they would otherwise miss and/or generate new solutions around a provocative possibility. More often than not, people tend to begin addressing a challenge without sufficient understanding of what [[Hasan Özbekhan]] called the [[Problématique]] and without studying the inter-relations....