Metálogo como herramienta de colaboración transdisciplinaria

espanolLa sociedad requiere de forma creciente la realizacion efectiva de instancias participativas dirigidas a fomentar la colaboracion entre distintos ambitos organizacionales, disciplinarios y socio-culturales. Los desafios intrinsecos a este tipo de instancias requieren el desarrollo de metodologias que permitan insertar reflexividad dentro del ambito dialogico y orientar el mismo hacia la creacion de “boundary objects” que pueda servir de referente entre las distintas perspectivas involucradas, constituyendose en un facilitador para la colaboracion futura. Para responder a estas necesidades, el articulo elabora, a partir del concepto de metalogo originariamente propuesto por Gregory Bateson, una propuesta sistemico-constructivista de observacion e intervencion contextual, dirigida a fomentar reflexividad a partir de la promocion de observacion de segundo orden. En este contexto de mayor reflexividad, se promueve la co-construccion de documentos donde se coordinen las perspectivas de los participantes y las expectativas de los arreglos estructurales y organizacionales en los que estos operan. El articulo justifica teoricamente y describe la tecnica del metalogo, ademas de destacar aprendizajes, buenas practicas y reflexiones derivadas de su aplicacion en diversas experiencias transdisciplinarias en Chile. EnglishContemporary society shows an increasing demand for participatory instances able to effectively foster the collaboration of diverse organizational, disciplinary and socio-cultural areas. The challenges intrinsic to such participatory instances require the development of methodologies that may allow for the insertion of reflexivity within the dialogical interaction, while also promoting the collective construction of "boundary objects": such objects, in turn, by serving as a common reference for the different perspectives involved in the dialogue, have the potential of facilitating the future collaboration among such perspectives. To respond to these demands -and inspired by the notion of metalogue originally introduced by Gregory Bateson- this paper elaborates a systemic-constructivist proposal of observation and contextual intervention, aimed at fostering reflexivity within dialogical-participatory instances by inducing their participants to perform a second-order observation of the distinctions mobilized within the interaction. Building upon this reflexivity, the metalogue pursues the co-construction of documents able to coordinate the perspectives of the participants and the expectations of the structural and organizational arrangements in which they operate. In addition to justifying and describing the technique of the metalogue, the paper highlights some lessons learned, good practices and proposals derived from its application in various transdisciplinary experiences in Chile.