Designing with systems

Complex system

Non-linearity

A great number of interacting components

Self-organisation

Look for patterns & the big picture

System indicators

Resilience
Social justice

Resilience

Resilience is the capacity of a system to deal with change and continue to develop

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Floating pavilions, Rotterdam

Rehabilitating Mangroves in the Philippines

How to increase resilience? 

• Maintain diversity & redundancy

• Manage connectivity

• Manage slow variables & feedbacks

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Diversity

How diverse is this group? 

Age

Nationality

Programme

...

Redundancy

Connectivity

Slow variables

Feedbacks

Often, the enemy of resilience is efficiency (!!)

High efficiency

Low resilience

Low efficiency

High resilience

Find the sweet spot

Efficiency

Resilience

How can you increase resilience through your design?

Excercise

Use the "Design for Resilience" template to increase resilience through your design

Social Justice

Social Justice is the way in which human rights are manifested in the everyday lives of people at every level of society

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Chapultepec Park, Mexico

Metrocable Caracas, Venezuela

How to increase social justice? 

• Broaden participation

• Contribute to social foundation

Broaden participation

Contribute to social foundation

How can you increase social justice through your design?

Excercise

Use the "Design for Social Justice" template to increase social justice through your design

Present

Excercise

Present one of the design changes you made and explain why

Peer review: If you are not presenting, please reflect on:

-Contribution to resilience and/or social justice

-Is there a possibility to increase the contribution?

Recap

What is resilience?

How can you increase resilience?

What is the difference between

Equity

Equality

Social Justice

How can you increase social justice?