MDPE.22:7 - Consequences
Positive consequences:
- projects stop confusing an artwork, class, tool, event, platform trace, or archive with the practice they were meant to support;
- general Systems Engineering and management Methods receive a clear Music-or-Dance purpose and success observation;
- hidden provider, venue, instrument, access, recognition, and recurring-Work dependencies become actionable;
- infrastructure changes can be compared by practitioner result rather than organizational prestige or output count;
- local experiments can improve a practice without claiming control of cultural evolution; and
- evidence of failure supports a useful stop or a better-targeted next intervention when one is warranted.
Costs and limits:
- environment changes often require several independent Agents and authorities;
- observations relevant to the practice can arrive later than the technical or organizational change;
- observation can require performer, audience, teacher, organizer, or source-community participation;
- a bounded intervention can move burden, reduce diversity, or create new dependence; and
- the wider culture can ignore, transform, or reverse the project’s result.