Awesome word. From Merriam Webster: “involving or serving as an aid to learning, discovery, or problem-solving by experimental and especially trial-and-error methods
; also : of or relating to exploratory problem-solving techniques that utilize self-educating techniques (such as the evaluation of feedback) to improve performance”
The Latitude Movement is, at the end of the day, a heuristic project. It is about the practical application of latitude line as an organizing principle, a pathway to cultural exploration, a potential solution to various issues of the day, and ultimately an independent study with only basic principles guiding the process.
Those basic principles are: latitude line, listening, and diplomacy.
The first known use of the word Heuristic was in 1821. The same year that the Erie Canal was first used as an east west pathway along the 43rd parallel. Practical and imperfect.