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MDPE.13:2 - Forces
| Tension | What must remain visible |
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| expertise ↔ entry | Skilled recognition can preserve subtle distinctions; closed expertise can exclude newcomers or competing traditions. |
| continuity ↔ novelty | Stable criteria support lineage; the same criteria can make an unfamiliar but useful variant illegible. |
| comparability ↔ diversity | Common tasks make comparison possible; one task can erase partner-facing, embodied, improvisational, or long-horizon qualities. |
| decision speed ↔ contestability | One curator or algorithm can decide quickly; plural review, appeal, revision, refusal, and exit cost time and coordination. |
| visibility ↔ distortion | Amplification helps variants reach people; metrics and media formats can make performers optimize the proxy. |
| local choice ↔ cultural outcome | A team can select and implement a design; later recognition, copying, retention, or loss remains a separate distributed result. |