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Design Journeys through Complex Systems: Practice Tools for Systemic Design
Design Journeys through Complex Systems is a practitioner’s handbook for both experienced designers and interested scholars to learn leading thinking practices of systemic design.
With the growing demand for creative approaches to address critical systemic challenges in the 21st century, the book enables readers to facilitate progressive solutions by providing a comprehensive perspective and a range of practical tools to engage mutual learning and masterful design thinking. Intersecting systemics and design, the book develops a visually compelling relationship between these disciplines, bringing out the best in each tradition. Building upon the authors’ revolutionary Systemic Design Toolkit, this book leverages service design and systems thinking to help the user apply the power of visual sensemaking. By combining theoretical discussion of the field’s most important literary texts and a straightforward sequence of application, Design Journeys through Complex Systems allows users of all levels to harness the power of design thinking.
Despite lacking relevant practice, academic experience, or training, the modern age calls for business leaders, designers, and social innovators to address complex transformational challenges. Design Journeys acts as a pathway that guides them through this process, radically improving how you, your team, and those around you can visualize problems. The design systems within these pages allow the user to deconstruct, reorientate, and reassess complicated problems they face. Visualizing these challenges leads to the democratization of engagement within a team, boosting cooperation and increasing productivity.
Design Journeys through Complex Systems is more than just a structured sequence of methods, providing a new grammar for constructive narrative of systemic design. This book will guide change-makers on their journey to becoming a thought leader, with systemic design lighting the way.
With the growing demand for creative approaches to address critical systemic challenges in the 21st century, the book enables readers to facilitate progressive solutions by providing a comprehensive perspective and a range of practical tools to engage mutual learning and masterful design thinking. Intersecting systemics and design, the book develops a visually compelling relationship between these disciplines, bringing out the best in each tradition. Building upon the authors’ revolutionary Systemic Design Toolkit, this book leverages service design and systems thinking to help the user apply the power of visual sensemaking. By combining theoretical discussion of the field’s most important literary texts and a straightforward sequence of application, Design Journeys through Complex Systems allows users of all levels to harness the power of design thinking.
Despite lacking relevant practice, academic experience, or training, the modern age calls for business leaders, designers, and social innovators to address complex transformational challenges. Design Journeys acts as a pathway that guides them through this process, radically improving how you, your team, and those around you can visualize problems. The design systems within these pages allow the user to deconstruct, reorientate, and reassess complicated problems they face. Visualizing these challenges leads to the democratization of engagement within a team, boosting cooperation and increasing productivity.
Design Journeys through Complex Systems is more than just a structured sequence of methods, providing a new grammar for constructive narrative of systemic design. This book will guide change-makers on their journey to becoming a thought leader, with systemic design lighting the way.
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248 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 25, 2022
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Peter V. Jones
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Peter Jones (sometimes credited as Peter V. Jones) is a former lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, a writer and journalist. Jones has regularly written on Classics for major newspapers, and was awarded the MBE in 1983. He is a Cambridge graduate.
Jones' popular work has been focused on introducing new generations to Ancient Rome and Greece, from newspaper columns to crossword collections, popular non-fiction, and charitable organisations devoted to helping keep Classics subjects in schools.
Peter Jones (sometimes credited as Peter V. Jones) is a former lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, a writer and journalist. Jones has regularly written on Classics for major newspapers, and was awarded the MBE in 1983. He is a Cambridge graduate.
Jones' popular work has been focused on introducing new generations to Ancient Rome and Greece, from newspaper columns to crossword collections, popular non-fiction, and charitable organisations devoted to helping keep Classics subjects in schools.
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July 21, 2022
It's a comprehensive roadmap to design 4.0 and feels like reading a masterclass complete with workshop models.
The ambition and execution are perfectly rendered in a visually appealing format. The pluriversality and space for recognising the mystery of human experience resonated.
It’s a manual for changing the world that I’ll be taking everywhere with me.
The ambition and execution are perfectly rendered in a visually appealing format. The pluriversality and space for recognising the mystery of human experience resonated.
It’s a manual for changing the world that I’ll be taking everywhere with me.
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August 4, 2025Read this if you want systemic design tools and frameworks to engage stakeholders in collaborative design on complex systems.
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