What are the key features of good bricolage?
Content type:
Articles / Papers
Author(s):
Jeph Mathias and Dea Tsartsidze
Theme:
OM Resources: Key Community Documents
Language:
English
Published:
24 July 2026
This brief explores what good bricolage looks like. What principles or features make it effective and credible? Identifying these will help us describe what distinguishes thoughtful, intentional bricolage from combinations based on methods we are familiar with, or more ad-hoc mixing. Ultimately, can we develop guidance for what good bricolage means? Does good bricolage need to consider feasibility, time, budget, responsiveness to users, capacities, context, power, and values?
This series of think pieces explores six learning questions discussed by participants of the OMLC Learning Lab in December 2025. For more details, visit https://www.outcomemapping.org/bricolage.
This brief explores what good bricolage looks like. What principles or features make it effective and credible? Identifying these will help us describe what distinguishes thoughtful, intentional bricolage from combinations based on methods we are familiar with, or more ad-hoc mixing. Ultimately, can we develop guidance for what good bricolage means? Does good bricolage need to consider feasibility, time, budget, responsiveness to users, capacities, context, power, and values?
This series of think pieces explores six learning questions discussed by participants of the OMLC Learning Lab in December 2025. For more details, visit https://www.outcomemapping.org/bricolage.
