The main mission of Systems Oriented Design is to build the designers own interpretation and implementation of systems thinking so that systems thinking can fully benefit from design thinking and practice and so that design thinking and practice can fully benefit from systems thinking.
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Today SOD became officially open source. It has always been the intention that users of the methodology should be encouraged to tweak and invent and make their own versions. Now this policy is made clearer by announcing SOD as open source. This also helped to initiate a work to clarify the kernel of SOD. This is also a standing invitation to contribute to our work. Read more here http://systemsorienteddesign.net/index.php/sod/sod-is-open-source |
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Systemic Design for Social Complexity Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD5) Symposium The event is announced on www.systemic-design.net There you will also find the proceedings including videos from keynotes from our former RSD symposia.
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See Harold Nelsons Nierenberg lecture from 2009 now published on youtube. |
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Workshop at the newly opened Action Lab with the government of Alberta in Edmonton, on my way home from RSD4. With Alex Ryan, Jess Mullan, Peter Jones, Mugendi M'Rithaa and the folks from Inward Forward. A most pleasant experience! Thanks to all the enthusiastic people from the Alberta Government. You are in front! I hope that the Norwegian government gets the chance to learn from you and the Systemic Design Group in Edmonton.
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I broke my record in having my shortest ever Gigamapping workshop, two times half an hour. Three groups and astonishing self organized dialogue and mapping. One of the most responsive mature and active groups i ever had! The three groups three final Gigamaps took 30 minutes:
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| I recently was guided to Bruno Latour’s lecture from 2008: A Cautious Prometheus. The lecture is a brilliant description of design, its increased importance and saturation into the world, its promises and advantages and an interesting argument how it is in opposition to modernism.
Though he does not mention systems at all there are many things that resonate. His notion of “Thing” as a grouping of things objects meanings materiality and symbols and the need to get at grasp with this. The notion of the cautious Prometheus resonates with our credo to be both humble and brave. And in the end he asks for a way to draw the complexity of the thing and he states that the lack of such a way of drawing is the biggest obstacle. It resonates to our attempts of developing gigamapping. Read the speach here: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/112-DESIGN-CORNWALL-GB.pdf |
