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+title: Bottom-up
+slug: bottom-up
+defined: true
+excerpt: 
+speech: noun
+flag:
+  level: warning
+  text: content warning
+reading:
+- text: "Social change and innovation, RSA"
+  href: https://www.thersa.org/blog/2014/04/top-down-bottom-up-side-to-side-inside-out-4-types-of-social-change-and-why-we-need-them-all
+- text: "Information processing (in good usage, as for sensor data and their flow in our bodies), American Psychology Association"
+  href: https://dictionary.apa.org/bottom-up-processing
+---
+
+
+## Definitions 
+Considering the smaller or less important parts or details of a plan, organization, etc. first: 
+— [Cambridge dictionary](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/bottom-up)
+
+Progressing upward from the lowest levels (as of a stratified organization or system)
+— [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bottom-up)
+
+A bottom-up approach is the piecing together of systems to give rise to more complex systems, thus making the original systems sub-systems of the emergent system. Bottom-up processing is a type of information processing based on incoming data from the environment to form a perception*
+— [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-down_and_bottom-up_design)
+
+
+
+## Impact
+
+The term, `bottom-up`, reinforces and even restores a perception of a hierarchy. 
+
+// a potential positive and negative perception is there. however, seems like interpreted subconsciously, without realisation of that acknowledgement
+
+this, wide practice, is prone to self and/or collective acknowledgement and emphasizing a state of being in a
+[lower ground](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5orH1D8mwl0). 
+
+referencing and affirming that (bottom) position as origin to move away, as-is, leaves no space or even further requirement for interpretation. 
+
+## Alternative Usage
+
+to emphasise participatory and open processes for positive change, encouraging collective thinking, decision making and action taking; rather than saying `"let's do it with a bottom-up approach"`, use below alternatives. 
+
+or better, preffering alternatives, that are immune to generating perception of authority, level/hierarchy. 
+
+semantically, and ontologically. eg: 
+
+"let's do it .. 
+- in a grassroots fashion"
+- together"
+- collectively "
+- proactively"
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