Week 12 Tute: Levels of resolution

Week 12, a de-escalation ladder for shared-space conflict, and why it starts with Week 1

17 May 2027

Every framework this semester has been about reading a room. This last one is about what to do once you’ve read it correctly and it’s still going wrong: a ladder of responses, from the smallest possible intervention to the point where you stop trying to fix it yourself. “Raise it directly” (the ladder’s middle rung) is just a deliberate, verbal version of the remedial interchange you’ve been logging silent versions of since Week 5: a breach, named out loud this time instead of signalled, and an actual chance for the other person to repair it. It only works if you can tell, in the moment, which rung you’re actually on, which is exactly what Week 1’s self-awareness work was for.

Before the session#

Look back at your Week 1 log. Pick one moment where you noticed your own tension rising, and think about what the smallest effective intervention would have been, versus what you actually did.

In the session#

We walk the ladder end to end and test it against real cases from the semester (your diagnosis, your protocol test, your redesign), asking at each one: what was the lowest rung that would have worked?

Afterwards#

Submit the critique-and-redesign assessment by the deadline. It’s the last piece of work for the course, and it should read like something a diagnosis-plus-protocol-plus-redesign method actually produces, not like a summary of twelve weeks of lecture notes.