Mexican World Model: Rethinking Mexico’s future by understanding deep systemic challenges
Mexican Model: a structured, systems-based framework that identifies how social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental forces interact to shape the country’s long-term trajectory.
Mexico faces complex challenges that cannot be understood in isolation.Using a systemic methodology inspired by the “problematique” and Logosofia models, this project maps the interdependencies behind the country’s most pressing issues. Our goal is to create a shared, accessible understanding of Mexico’s structural dynamics one that can inform better decisions, policies, and future scenarios. Mexico has its own unique history, institutions, inequalities, and cultural structures. This work aims to build a model rooted in Mexican realities, one that speaks from within.
Logosofia can be used by small research groups like ours to build models of problem systems (challenge maps) and solution formation (cross-impact maps). The Mexican world model follows this methodology and the interactive map demonstrates the outputs of the deliberation and modeling.
The function of the software is to show the group’s consensus on the problems which, if resolved, would have leverage to resolve the most complex challenges over time. Along with Roxana Cardenas, we held a week-long course with other professors from Tec de Monterrey to learn the methodology, build the start of a Mexican world model, and to demonstrate its potential for addressing a Mexican-context polycrisis, or problematique for the 21st Century. This concept was proposed to create a qualitative Mexican problematique based on the history of the Argentina “Bariloche” project from Amilcar Herrera’s group in the 1970’s.
Dr. Herrera, with Gillipin and Gabriela Chichilnisky constructed a qualitative model of Latin American problematics, to argue against the imposition of global problem-solution simulations such as the famous Limits to Growth World Model.
As the Limits to Growth recently celebrated a 50-year review (from 1972-2022), we believed there is significant potential for collaborative cocreation of qualitative modeling, or problematique based on the solidarity and knowledge of particular regions or peoples, as in the Bariloche project.
