Work on structured imagery is vital to clarify the nature of such options. It is these options which cannot be effectively envisaged through the current text-based debates. This benefits from the ways in which imagery is often part of the creative process through which social innovations take form. This approach is in effect an effort to seek a more appropriate balance between the cognitive functions represented by imagery and text. It could even be argued that failure to explore the imagery dimension is an expression of functional imbalance at the cognitive level.
Policies are unsustainable unless they can be effectively carried by the media.
Text-based policies are difficult to express in the visually oriented media. The question to be asked is whether the fundamental strategic options facing the planet should be confided to such a primitive numbering system and the limited geometrical configurations which it allows. It is of course possible to describe a wide range of phenomena using a binary numbering system, as is done in computer systems. But binary codes are not readily comprehensible. It is possible to envisage a situation in which every major policy is carried by an image or set of complementary images.