System Change

Systemic change is generally understood to require adjustments or transformations in the policies, practices, power dynamics, social norms or mindsets that underlie the societal issue at stake. It often involves the collaboration of a diverse set of players and can take place on a local, national or global level.

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PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM

(in increasing order of effectiveness)

Constants, parameters, numbers (subsidies, taxes, standards).

Regulating negative feedback loops.

Driving positive feedback loops.

Material flows and nodes of material intersection.

Information flows.

The rules of the system (incentives, punishments, constraints).

The distribution of po

donellameadows.org • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

Keely Adler

Exploring where impediments are hard, where they are soft and when they can be ignored is powerful.

Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism

Keely Adler

social change always begins with people who have “both a critical eye and a hopeful heart.”

Sam Pressler • Building societal structures to hold the messiness of our relationships

SSam Liebeskind

Marshall Ganz

Places to intervene in a system

Gordon Brander newsletter.squishy.computer

Sam Liebeskind

Burnout, then, is an outcome of an interaction between burnout producing environmental factors and individually susceptible workers.

The Beautiful Truth • Self-Care is Not the Solution for Burnout

Keely Adler

one of the central explorations implicit within The Liminal Web is how do we combine the yang of systems change with the yin of interbeing. How do we simultaneously let go of control whilst also growing into our capacities as cultivators of a world more curious and kind.

Joe Lightfoot • The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets

Stuart Evans

“We have a problem with scale. The planetary crisis can seem impossible to grasp. But focusing on the local can feel limited. How do we work to a scale that feels manageable? There is a way of reorganising how we think about scale: the -shed. -sheds (from Old English scead) describe the natural boundaries between waterbodies. They are not hard-edge

Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #82

Keely Adler

Developing our new Systemic Design Framework

Cat Drew medium.com

Adam Zeiner

Indeed, even if one could apply the notion of oscillation between

polarized features proffered by current political ideologies, a normative choice to affirm a paradigmatic project beyond such oscillation is more advisable. This normativity is rooted in compassion, care, cohesion, solidarity, social responsibility, universal healthcare and education,

Alex Fergnani • Metamodern Futures: Prescriptions for Metamodern Foresight

Keely Adler