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Lesson 2 Emerging Patterns

This document discusses identifying emerging patterns and trends. It begins by explaining that trends are formed from combinations of parts that interconnect over time. An emerging pattern refers to changing frequencies over time that can indicate the direction a trend is heading. There are different types of patterns like linear, exponential, and damped. Tools for identifying emerging patterns include documentation, archiving, analysis, and presentation. Identifying emerging patterns can introduce change and help explain cultural origins of trends. Causes lead to consequences, and examining all parts is important to understand what drives trends.

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Lesson 2 Emerging Patterns

This document discusses identifying emerging patterns and trends. It begins by explaining that trends are formed from combinations of parts that interconnect over time. An emerging pattern refers to changing frequencies over time that can indicate the direction a trend is heading. There are different types of patterns like linear, exponential, and damped. Tools for identifying emerging patterns include documentation, archiving, analysis, and presentation. Identifying emerging patterns can introduce change and help explain cultural origins of trends. Causes lead to consequences, and examining all parts is important to understand what drives trends.

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EMERGING

PATTERN
Week 2
Lesson objectives:
Identify parts of a whole.
 Identify and explain an emerging pattern.
Identify causes and consequences.
Introduction
It was the great Aristotle who first claimed that the whole is not equal
to the sum of the parts, and conversely, the sum of the parts is not equal to
the whole.
But the proponent of the idea of atom, who is Democritus, somehow
believed that the parts are of great significance in understanding the essence
of the whole. As a trend was born because of an idea of an individual or
groups of individuals, and these become prevalent, growing and evolving in
the course of time, it is but crucial for us to trace the movement of these
growth, expansions and evolutions of trends.
Identifying Parts of a Whole
Trends as they grow and evolve tend to influence or give birth to
other trends and become interconnected and interrelated.
Trends are formed from the combination of things.
A trend has constituent parts of portions that are interrelated. Their
influence, as well as how the people adopt them, makes the trend
viable, especially the megatrends and gigatrends.
Emerging Patterns
refer to items in which frequency are changing overtime.

It is important indicators that set the progressive movement of data


to understand the distinctive direction to where the trend is heading.
Identifying Emerging Pattern
Urgel (2017) defined pattern as a design, shape, form or configuration
that emerges from repetitious appearance of lines, curves, and behavior.
According to him, in the study of trends, repetitive behavior that gives
rise to an emerging pattern is the main interest.
In order to follow and observe if a pattern emerges out of various events
and phenomena, one should have the tools necessary to detect it.
Pattern of Trends
A. Linear. It follows a straight line in
graphical presentation which could indicate
an upward or downward direction.
B. Exponential. It is a trend represented by
a line that that may rise or fall shortly at a
given time unsteadily. Data change overtime
caused by different factors that may affect
progression.
C. Damped. This shows that values rise and
fall initially and then stop the rise and fall
for sometime and then rise or fall again.
According to Rehn and Lindkvist (2013), the tools that a trend spotter
should find handy to use are categorized into four activities which are
as follows:

1. Documentation means being able to record your


observations which you consider related to any trend.
 The primary tools for documentation are notebook and pen.
 Some opt to use note-taking features or apps on a smartphone or tablet.
 The camera has also become necessary in providing visuals.
 Others bring a voice recorder which is best for saving audio.

 Whatever tool one uses, the important thing in


documentation is the ability to physically keep
information and data wherever and whenever you may be
• 2. Archive or Memory is used to easily
retrieve any documentation you have
kept.
Notes can be scanned or converted to a portable document
format (PDF) while digital pictures can be easily saved.
Physical archiving can, of course, still be used.
 There are various digital archiving systems that are
available, too. Tagging and crossindexing are helpful in
labeling files.
3. Analysis is the stage where examination and combination happen.
Looking for patterns on prospective trends can be achieved through these methods: brainstorming,
grouping, and crafting combinations

In brainstorming, you decide which from your data is important and which can be discarded. Here, you can
confirm emerging patterns like events becoming more frequent and things following a cycle.
In grouping, you create headings where observations and data can fall under several categories.
In crafting combinations, you begin to link one thing to another and think what could happen if these are taken
step further, more like imagining or generating new ideas.

The above diagram presenting the evolutionary aspect of a trend is an example for
this analysis.
• 4. Presentation is representing your
findings for easy understanding as a way of
analysis.
A mood board and a storyboard used in
representing findings.
A mood board is a collage of images, text, and object samples.
This is used to capture your intuition and stimulate
creative discussions about trends.
A storyboard presents a narrative of possible scenarios. It
functions to connect trends to a timeline and to
different contexts, something that can enable you and others to
see interesting new things.
A slideshow is also another option. Sometimes, new trends are
labeled with new names or terms in the hope of popularizing
a phenomenon.
 Identifying emerging patterns can be used to introduce to
individuals, organizations, and communities change, improvement,
transformation and new opportunities.

 Once patterns are identified, trends are given rational explanations


for their emergence or existence and are provided with a better
understanding of their cultural origins.
Causality
It is a generally accepted principle that there is the cause for everything
that happens.
That is the principle that every cause produces a consequence.
It influences an event, process or state which is the cause that contributes
to the production of another event, process or state which is an effect or
consequence.
The cause is partly responsible for the consequences and the consequences
are partly dependent on the causes.
What causes the emergence of the trends should be taken and
examined as a whole considering its smallest element or parts.
That causes may be intensified by intervening factors to produce a
desirable progress that characterizes a progressing or failing trends.
The resulting changes is the effect or the consequences.
THANK YOU
Prepared by:

Malou R. Leynes-Levida

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