Design Journeys through Complex Systems: Practice Tools for Systemic Design
Design Journeys for Complex Systems is a designer's handbook to learn systemic design tools to engage stakeholder groups in collaborative design to address complex societal systems.

Systemic design uses systems thinking and service design to address large-scale societal contexts and complex socio-technical systems. These are contexts characterized by social and technological complexity, high uncertainty, and often problematic outcomes.

Using a tour guide metaphor, the book trains people's mindsets and provides tools for dealing with hyper complexity, to enable understanding of systemic problems, and to build capacity to collaborate in teams to produce action proposals.
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Design Journeys through Complex Systems: Practice Tools for Systemic Design
Design Journeys for Complex Systems is a designer's handbook to learn systemic design tools to engage stakeholder groups in collaborative design to address complex societal systems.

Systemic design uses systems thinking and service design to address large-scale societal contexts and complex socio-technical systems. These are contexts characterized by social and technological complexity, high uncertainty, and often problematic outcomes.

Using a tour guide metaphor, the book trains people's mindsets and provides tools for dealing with hyper complexity, to enable understanding of systemic problems, and to build capacity to collaborate in teams to produce action proposals.
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Design Journeys through Complex Systems: Practice Tools for Systemic Design

Design Journeys through Complex Systems: Practice Tools for Systemic Design

Design Journeys through Complex Systems: Practice Tools for Systemic Design

Design Journeys through Complex Systems: Practice Tools for Systemic Design

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Overview

Design Journeys for Complex Systems is a designer's handbook to learn systemic design tools to engage stakeholder groups in collaborative design to address complex societal systems.

Systemic design uses systems thinking and service design to address large-scale societal contexts and complex socio-technical systems. These are contexts characterized by social and technological complexity, high uncertainty, and often problematic outcomes.

Using a tour guide metaphor, the book trains people's mindsets and provides tools for dealing with hyper complexity, to enable understanding of systemic problems, and to build capacity to collaborate in teams to produce action proposals.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789063696344
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Publication date: 08/30/2022
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 8.35(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Peter Jones (Author)
Dr. Peter Jones is a professor teaching systemic design at Canada's art and design school, Toronto's OCAD University, in the Strategic Foresight & Innovation and Design for Health graduate programs.

Kristel Van Ael (Author)
Kristel Van Ael is managing partner at Namahn, a human-centered design agency in Brussels, and teacher in product-service-system design and systemic design at Antwerp University.

Table of Contents

Design Journeys Through Complex Systems 1

A tour guide for system navigators 1

Learning by travelling together 4

Design evolution into complexity 5

Systemic Design Methodology 13

Design Journeys and the Toolkit 13

Design Journeys: Seven stages to destination 17

A participatory design practice 18

Convening Cocreation 20

Contexts of cocreation 21

Creating a cocreation system 23

Convivial convening 26

Framing 30

Sensemaking 32

Reframing 34

Codesign 36

Roadmapping 38

1 Framing the System 41

Exploring the whole system 42

Iterative Inquiry 44

Actors Map 50

Rich Context 54

Niche Discovery 58

Light on the path 62

2 Listening to the System 65

Researching people in complex systems 66

Stakeholder Discovery 68

Research Questions 72

Contextual Interview 76

Actants Map 84

Light on the path 88

3 Understanding the System 91

Modelling complex system behaviours 92

Social Ecosystem Map 94

Multicapitals Model 98

Influence Map 102

Story Loop Diagram 108

System Archetypes 114

4 Envisioning Desired Futures 121

Cocreating future system value 122

System Value Proposition 124

Three Horizons Map 128

Paradoxing 134

Synthesis Map 138

5 Exploring the Possibility Space 145

Searching for Leverage Strategies 146

Future State Scenarios 148

Intervention Strategy 152

Intervention Model 158

Contextual Variations 162

Outcome Map 166

6 Planning the Change Process 171

Facilitating change planning 172

Theory of Systems Change 174

Process Enneagram 182

Change Readiness Assessment 188

Ecosystem Governance 192

7 Fostering the Transition 197

A transition to action 198

Stakeholder Mobilisation 200

Transition by Design 204

Collaboration Model 208

Adaptive Cycle Strategy 212

Light on the Path 216

The Return Home 218

Bibliography 233

References in the book 233

Index 240

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