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whose exploration will be carried out by mobilizing the approaches outlined in
Chapter 3. Going back and forth between points 3 and 4 can thus be done in multiple
ways:
- to return to an empirical exploration of the phenomenon being studied;
- to explore the results of the outputs of simulation;
- to confront empirical and simulated evolutions of the phenomenon being
studied, and this most often at multiple scales (at least the level of elementary
entities and that of the system as a whole).
As illustrated in Figure C.1, the
interactions
between reflections, concepts and
methods presented in the four chapters are multiple. Thus, rather than representing
the succession of these different phases in a linear way, it seems to us that the spiral
is more accurate for illustrating the climbing up on the path to kwowledge building
while always keeping an overview of the methodological landscape that has been
built.
Figure C.1.
Approaching spatio-temporal phenomena: a spiral of stages
