Dissolve And Rebuild
Break it down until no part survives intact, then rebuild from the residue alone.
Formerly Solve Et Coagula
The chrysalis: dissolved to formless, rebuilt as another creature.
Seen in John Latham, Art and Culture ("Still and Chew"), 1966
Try it on your work
Reduce the thing you're working on to its smallest separable parts (a full teardown, nothing left assembled) and only then rebuild, following what the parts suggest rather than the memory of the whole. List what didn't make it back in.
Break your project's story into single disconnected statements, one per line, shuffled until no line depends on its neighbour. Compose a new account using only those lines. The lines no account wanted are dissolved for good.
Suspend the current structure entirely for one bounded period (no roles, no sequence, only the work and the people), then let a structure re-form and write down the first three rules that reappear. Those three are the real constitution.
How it has been used
Dissolve the thing completely, then reconstitute it: the alchemists' formula, the essay reduced to index cards and rebuilt, the band that breaks the song down to nothing in the middle. The move forbids partial dissolution: keeping the good bits intact through the solvent is how the old structure smuggles itself back.
Where it leads
Grouped under Pull the parts apart