Systemic Design: Theory, Methods, and Practice

✍ Scribed by Peter Jones, Kyoichi Kijima

• Publisher: Springer Japan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 327
• Series: Translational Systems Sciences 8
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents emerging work in the co-evolving fields of design-led systemics, referred to as systemic design to distinguish it from the engineering and hard science epistemologies of system design or systems engineering. There are significant societal forces and organizational demands impelling the requirement for “better means of change” through integrated design practices of systems and services. Here we call on advanced design to lead programs of strategic scale and higher complexity (e.g., social policy, healthcare, education, urbanization) while adapting systems thinking methods, creatively pushing the boundaries beyond the popular modes of systems dynamics and soft systems. Systemic design is distinguished by its scale, social complexity and integration – it is concerned with higher-order systems that that entail multiple subsystems. By integrating systems thinking and its methods, systemic design brings human-centred design to complex, multi-stakeholder service systems. As designers engage with ever more complex problem areas, it is necessary to draw on a basis other than individual creativity and contemporary “design thinking” methods. Systems theories can co-evolve with a new school of design theory to resolve informed action on today’s highly resilient complex problems and can deal effectively with demanding, contested and high-stakes challenges.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Contexts of Co-creation: Designing with System Stakeholders (Peter Jones)....Pages 3-52
A Framework for Complex Design: Lessons from Synthetic Biology (Chih-Chun Chen, Nathan Crilly)....Pages 53-67
Inclusive Systemic Design for Health System Flourishment (Peter Pennefather, Katie Seaborn, Deborah I. Fels)....Pages 69-85
Front Matter ....Pages 87-87
Systems Design Thinking: Theoretical, Methodological, and Methodical Considerations. A German Narrative (Wolfgang Jonas)....Pages 89-117
Wicked Problems in Design and Ethics (Ben Sweeting)....Pages 119-143
On the Resilience of Sociotechnical Systems (Eloise Taysom, Nathan Crilly)....Pages 145-171
Towards a (Socio-ecological) Science of Settlement: Relational Dynamics as a Basis for Place (Perin Ruttonsha)....Pages 173-240
Front Matter ....Pages 241-241
Visualizing Complex Design: The Evolution of Gigamaps (Birger Sevaldson)....Pages 243-269
Local Ruralism: Systemic Design for Economic Development (Silvia Barbero)....Pages 271-291
Permaculture as a Systemic Design Practice (John B. Cassel, Susan V. Cousineau)....Pages 293-318

✦ Subjects

Economics; Social Policy; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Social Structure, Social Inequality