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'''Sensemaking''' is the retrospective process through which individuals and groups construct meaning from ambiguous, confusing, or chaotic experience. Unlike decision-making, which operates within established frames, sensemaking is the prior activity of constructing the frame itself — determining what is happening, what it means, and what to do about it. The concept, most fully developed by [[Karl Weick]], rejects the assumption that organizations face clear problems with known solutions; instead, it treats ambiguity as the default condition and meaning as an emergent achievement that must be continuously reproduced through talk, action, and interpretation.

Sensemaking is not merely cognitive. It is a social and material process: people make sense together, and they do so using the tools, spaces, and routines that their organizations provide. A control room is not just a place where sense is made; it is a device for making sense — a [[Cognitive Artifact|cognitive artifact]] that structures attention, channels communication, and disciplines interpretation. When sensemaking fails, as it did in the Mann Gulch disaster, the failure is rarely individual. It is systemic: the organization's tools for constructing reality are inadequate to the speed or scale of the threat.

''The persistent confusion of sensemaking with problem-solving is not a semantic quibble. It is a category error that leads organizations to train people in decision tools before they train them in diagnostic perception — and then to blame individuals when the decisions fail.''

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