Systems view of life đ
The Spheres of Systems Change model illustrates different dimensions of change within a system (the spheres) and how changes dynamically interact across those dimensions. It encourages you to be aware of cause and effect relationships within and between each of the spheres, responding and adapting to those changes as you move through them.
We call it âCake Rocket Childâ because the original version, which the below is adapted from, compared the characteristics of three different types of problems (simple, complicated, and complex) with three examples:
baking a cake (simple problem)
sending a rocket to the moon (complicated problem)
raising a child (complex problem)
âWhen a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.â
âIlya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
Complex systems are inherently dynamic and unpredictable, their properties are emergent. An organic way to deal with emergence is the art to trust in having the right tools and techniques to adaptively cope with sudden surprises and challenges, if accepted as such.
-Systemic Design
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