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.

Adam Zeiner and

Slow Factory Center for Collective Healing & Liberation

slowfactory.earth

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Open Learning for Systemic Literacy.

Developing our new Systemic Design Framework

Cat Drew medium.com

Adam Zeiner

There is a huge problem when it comes to "changing the system":When you go deep and help people reframe the paradigms, myths and worldviews at the core of a system, it's often too abstract and people ask for real-world examples of alternative worldviews. When you give people examples of alternative ways of doing things, they often ask for more rela... See more

Thomas Klaffke on LinkedIn: #systemchange #change #changemanagement #changecommunication

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

Awareness’ is an unambitious political end-goal for a few reasons. Firstly: awareness of what? The information circulated in ‘awareness’ narratives often uncritically props up neoliberal ideology. Neoliberalism supports the privatisation of major businesses, cuts to state welfare, and an emphasis on ‘individual responsibility

Dazed • This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy

Keely Adler

From service design to systems change

Adam Groves medium.com

Adam Zeiner

When we seek to intervene in any system created by someone, it’s not enough to view their decisions and choices simply as the consequences of first-order thinking because we can inadvertently create serious problems. Before changing anything, we should wonder whether they were using second-order thinking. Their reasons for making certain choices mi... See more

fs.blog • Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking - Farnam Street

Sam Liebeskind

Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food

Mold thisismold.com

Keely Adler

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