About The Frame Continuum
The Frame Continuum was established to investigate questions that often sit beneath familiar explanations of complex situations.
Its work begins with the observation that understanding a problem requires more than gathering information. It also requires examining how that information is organised, interpreted, and connected to the structures of the situation itself.
The initiative brings together research and analytical development to explore these questions and their implications for human understanding and agency.
The Frame Continuum develops ideas through research, conceptual development, analysis, and application.
Research programmes investigate fundamental questions and explore relationships that may not be apparent through conventional explanations. As understanding develops, findings and insights may take shape as concepts, frameworks, and analytical methods.
These developments are explored through practical applications, creating opportunities to test their usefulness and, where appropriate, develop tools that make the resulting insights more accessible and useful.
The Frame Continuum's research spans interconnected questions concerning structures, patterns, sensemaking, and human agency.
These areas are explored through distinct research programmes, each contributing to the broader development of the initiative's understanding and analytical work.
Explore the research programmes and the questions guiding this work on the Research page.
The Frame Continuum was founded by Albertus Kock, a researcher and strategist whose work brings together psychology, sociology, product research, systems thinking, and sensemaking.
His work has focused on understanding people, products, organisations, and the systems in which they operate, with a particular interest in how assumptions, models, and underlying structures shape what can be understood and acted upon.
This work led to the development of Metanomics as an analytical framework, followed by The Frame Continuum as a broader research initiative exploring the relationship between understanding, structural complexity, and human agency.