The goal of feedback is to understand how to improve performance of the geodesign process. Adapting the study to respond to feedback is continuous throughout the geodesign process. The geodesign framework appears to imply that feedback only occurs at the end of the process, when preliminary results are presented to stakeholders. But stakeholder feedback is acknowledged during any of the Decision Model steps and team feedback can be addressed anytime.
In order to understand how to respond to team and stakeholder feedback, our focus needs to shift from an analysis of the landscape to a diagnosis of the framework. Based on feedback from the stakeholders the team can reassess the decision made throughout the process and consider possible adjustments, such as:
A better understanding of the stakeholder’s perspective will enable the team to adapt, add, or remove other model types to alter the geodesign results. Fortunately, by now the team has the benefit of having a fully developed framework, vocabulary, and series of metrics with which to work. Although it may seem laborious and time-consuming to make changes, conceptually it should be simple to adjust models within the framework to generate new results. It is important for the team to use their experience with the study to get specific, collaborative feedback from both the team and the stakeholders in order to develop specific questions about the models. Haphazardly making ill-informed changes, or ones not supported by feedback, will only disrupt the process and produce misunderstood results.Â