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Think Systems - Navigate Smarter

We’d grown comfortable with thinking about our lives in mechanistic, systematic ways. Problem, solution, problem, solution. But the thing is: We don’t live in a machine; our world doesn’t operate systematically, as much as we might like it to. - The Radar Futurethon 2023

Complex systems, such as organisations and urban places, differ fundamentally from simple or merely complicated systems. Transforming these systems requires system-based design principles and methods that align with the dynamic, ever-changing nature of organisations and communities.

Principes

principes

Five design principles help facilitate the Change Lab sessions.

  • System thinking: discovering patterns, cohesion and dynamics in a social system.
  • Participation: co-creating and developing with people rather than about or for them. 
  • Action learning: making change while thinking  and acting at the same time. 
  • Sensemaking: receiving signals and information constantly and finding meaning.
  • Designing: designing ideas and innovations together with users and other stakeholders.

Methods

methoden

These are the tools, methods, and approaches applied in the ChangeLabs.

All focused to drive insight, co-creation, and meaningful change: