As many acknowledge, more is however required. This is a real challenge to the imagination to articulate new visions of appropriate order and of longer term significance. It is increasingly clear that the emerging possibilities can only have a chance of succeeding if they can be adequately articulated through the media.
Many comprehensible policies are simply boring and, as such, alienating.
Unless the new approaches are adequately evocative, triggering the imagination and a sense of participation, they will of necessity be inappropriate. Appropriate policies call for a new form of identification on the part of those whom they touch. Conceptual scaffolding in support of imaginative proposals Complex building designs require scaffolding to allow the complementary structural elements to be held in position before they can counter-balance the tensions and stresses they engender. It is especially necessary given the degree of opposition between interests representing vital, and complementary, concerns in society. Scaffolding from high technology and traditional wisdom It has been argued that current policy-making language draws upon very simple forms of conceptual scaffolding.