Innovation, creativity, flexibility, responsiveness to customer needs and quality of service have... more Innovation, creativity, flexibility, responsiveness to customer needs and quality of service have become the main corporate challenges of the 1990s. In response to these issues, companies are evolving from hierarchical, vertical layouts towards more horizontal and decentralized organizational structures. This affects the strategy to be adopted to integrate statistics successfully into a company's culture. This paper describes the approach taken by Chemical Research Centre Shell by forming a statistics skills group, identifying the resources needed creating awareness and building a structured framework.
Recurring crises have exposed time and again the inherent inequalities of our societies and their... more Recurring crises have exposed time and again the inherent inequalities of our societies and their ill-equipped adjustment to an ever-changing environment. This paper attempts to address the challenge of creating a more resilient and equitable society by developing a feasible blueprint for it through a bottom-up, transdisciplinary approach and the use of activity models methodology. The starting point of our analysis consisted of the identification of five cross-field societal issues, tack ling which would create a more equitable and resilient future for society: dangers of private data extractions, carbon emission taxing, climate migration, public health affordability, and the crisis of representative democracy. By jointly engaging in transdisciplinary discussions and accommodating insights from diverse stakeholders we analyzed ways of dealing with each of the issues, resulting in the creation of six activity models pertaining to them. The last step consisted in their integration into a single blueprint, achieved by devising a learning cycle running through the core of our societal model. The learning cycle organizes decision-making by identifying the social needs of the citizens, prioritizing them, deciding on key investments, executing these and monitoring their results. It ensures, through the contribution of each activity model, an equitable and resilient development for society.
Authors and Panelists: Peter Jones (OCAD), Stefanos Monastiridis (Namahn), Alex Ryan (MaRS), Vane... more Authors and Panelists: Peter Jones (OCAD), Stefanos Monastiridis (Namahn), Alex Ryan (MaRS), Vanessa Toye (MaRS), Kristel Van Ael (Namahn), Philippe Vandenbroeck (shiftN) Empathy-Driven Social Innovation Changemakers Co-Design Transdisciplinary Youth Empowerment Education systems At the RSD5 symposium in Toronto (2016), Namahn and shiftN presented the first version of their Systemic Design toolkit and assessed its fit to practice in the conference workshop. Since then, the original authors have collaborated with Peter Jones (OCADU) and Alex Ryan (MaRS Discovery District) for continued development of the toolkit towards a mature version, ready for general use. A panel session was presented at the RSD7 Symposium in Torino to present the release version of the toolkit. Why a Systemic Design Toolkit? After 7 years of RSD symposia, we believed some concern could arise that the field might be too dominated by academic studio-led methods and projects. We had not seen a movement toward prag...
By publishing this report the KBF aims to facilitate knowledge sharing among all interested parti... more By publishing this report the KBF aims to facilitate knowledge sharing among all interested parties bringing together important learnings and take-away messages on working with wicked problems. Acknowledging the existence of wicked problems means admitting to face societal challenges for which no definitive answer exists. Wicked problems are structurally complex so that it is hard to say where a given problem stops and another one begins. And stakeholders will frame these challenges in different ways so that a one-size-fits-all solution is highly unlikely. Thinking in terms of wicked problems opens up a novel repertoire of strategies to come to grips with these issues. The report guides you through three approaches, five methodologies and seven rules of thumb
1 17 33 49 65 81 97 113 16 32 48 64 80 96 112 128 Philippe Vandenbroeck en Michiel Dehaene Het pl... more 1 17 33 49 65 81 97 113 16 32 48 64 80 96 112 128 Philippe Vandenbroeck en Michiel Dehaene Het pleidooi voor de kleine stad als sleutel tot een duurzame, evenwichtige regionale ontwikkeling gaat al lange tijd mee. Van het beeld van de compacte, kleine stad die zich netjes aftekent tegen een groene achtergrond gaat een soort onvermijdelijkheid uit. Dit beeld werd meer dan 100 jaar geleden scherp neergezet door de tuinstadbeweging en is sindsdien zowel binnen als buiten deze beweging hernomen. Telkens lijkt een voor de tuinstad typische samentrekking zich te herhalen tussen enerzijds een strategische visie op regionale ontwikkeling en anderzijds een culturele en maatschappelijke vertaling hiervan in herkenbare beelden van de traditionele kleinstad. Aan de noodzakelijke modernisering wordt dan met een neo-traditioneel jasje een nieuwe vertrouwdheid aangemeten. Met elke herhaling schuift dit beeld verder op in de richting van een soort tijdloze stedenbouwkundige formule. In deze tekst g...
ICC is a resilience-oriented approach that seeks to strengthen communities by tackling the determ... more ICC is a resilience-oriented approach that seeks to strengthen communities by tackling the determinants of health. It assumes accountability towards a territorially defined population, creating new cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary partnerships and taking a population health approach with a focus on prevention. In ICC, a new power dynamic and relationship is forged: people and communities co-design and co-produce health and care; the role of government is that of an equalizer (ensuring resources are allocated to those most in need) and investor in public services; and the traditional boundaries between informal and formal care are blurred.
In this paper we want to reflect on the use of toolkits as a codification strategy to fuel an exp... more In this paper we want to reflect on the use of toolkits as a codification strategy to fuel an expanding practice of ‘systemic design’. This critical reflection is rooted in the real‐life experience of bringing together two different sets of skills in the development of a Systemic Design Toolkit. Designers and concept‐driven system thinkers belong to different epistemic communities. While these fields of practice are arguably in the process of converging, in actual practice it proves to be a challenge to transcend their governing epistemological differences. What pragmatically unites these practitioners is their ambition to successfully codify a vast and layered knowledge base. A Systemic Design Toolkit is argued to offer promise as a ‘boundary object’ between the epistemic communities involved in creating the toolkit (the designers on the one hand and the conceptual system thinkers on the other) and between the toolkit developers and toolkit users. The paper closes with a tentative ...
Innovation, creativity, flexibility, responsiveness to customer needs and quality of service have... more Innovation, creativity, flexibility, responsiveness to customer needs and quality of service have become the main corporate challenges of the 1990s. In response to these issues, companies are evolving from hierarchical, vertical layouts towards more horizontal and decentralized organizational structures. This affects the strategy to be adopted to integrate statistics successfully into a company's culture. This paper describes the approach taken by Chemical Research Centre Shell by forming a statistics skills group, identifying the resources needed creating awareness and building a structured framework.
Recurring crises have exposed time and again the inherent inequalities of our societies and their... more Recurring crises have exposed time and again the inherent inequalities of our societies and their ill-equipped adjustment to an ever-changing environment. This paper attempts to address the challenge of creating a more resilient and equitable society by developing a feasible blueprint for it through a bottom-up, transdisciplinary approach and the use of activity models methodology. The starting point of our analysis consisted of the identification of five cross-field societal issues, tack ling which would create a more equitable and resilient future for society: dangers of private data extractions, carbon emission taxing, climate migration, public health affordability, and the crisis of representative democracy. By jointly engaging in transdisciplinary discussions and accommodating insights from diverse stakeholders we analyzed ways of dealing with each of the issues, resulting in the creation of six activity models pertaining to them. The last step consisted in their integration into a single blueprint, achieved by devising a learning cycle running through the core of our societal model. The learning cycle organizes decision-making by identifying the social needs of the citizens, prioritizing them, deciding on key investments, executing these and monitoring their results. It ensures, through the contribution of each activity model, an equitable and resilient development for society.
Authors and Panelists: Peter Jones (OCAD), Stefanos Monastiridis (Namahn), Alex Ryan (MaRS), Vane... more Authors and Panelists: Peter Jones (OCAD), Stefanos Monastiridis (Namahn), Alex Ryan (MaRS), Vanessa Toye (MaRS), Kristel Van Ael (Namahn), Philippe Vandenbroeck (shiftN) Empathy-Driven Social Innovation Changemakers Co-Design Transdisciplinary Youth Empowerment Education systems At the RSD5 symposium in Toronto (2016), Namahn and shiftN presented the first version of their Systemic Design toolkit and assessed its fit to practice in the conference workshop. Since then, the original authors have collaborated with Peter Jones (OCADU) and Alex Ryan (MaRS Discovery District) for continued development of the toolkit towards a mature version, ready for general use. A panel session was presented at the RSD7 Symposium in Torino to present the release version of the toolkit. Why a Systemic Design Toolkit? After 7 years of RSD symposia, we believed some concern could arise that the field might be too dominated by academic studio-led methods and projects. We had not seen a movement toward prag...
By publishing this report the KBF aims to facilitate knowledge sharing among all interested parti... more By publishing this report the KBF aims to facilitate knowledge sharing among all interested parties bringing together important learnings and take-away messages on working with wicked problems. Acknowledging the existence of wicked problems means admitting to face societal challenges for which no definitive answer exists. Wicked problems are structurally complex so that it is hard to say where a given problem stops and another one begins. And stakeholders will frame these challenges in different ways so that a one-size-fits-all solution is highly unlikely. Thinking in terms of wicked problems opens up a novel repertoire of strategies to come to grips with these issues. The report guides you through three approaches, five methodologies and seven rules of thumb
1 17 33 49 65 81 97 113 16 32 48 64 80 96 112 128 Philippe Vandenbroeck en Michiel Dehaene Het pl... more 1 17 33 49 65 81 97 113 16 32 48 64 80 96 112 128 Philippe Vandenbroeck en Michiel Dehaene Het pleidooi voor de kleine stad als sleutel tot een duurzame, evenwichtige regionale ontwikkeling gaat al lange tijd mee. Van het beeld van de compacte, kleine stad die zich netjes aftekent tegen een groene achtergrond gaat een soort onvermijdelijkheid uit. Dit beeld werd meer dan 100 jaar geleden scherp neergezet door de tuinstadbeweging en is sindsdien zowel binnen als buiten deze beweging hernomen. Telkens lijkt een voor de tuinstad typische samentrekking zich te herhalen tussen enerzijds een strategische visie op regionale ontwikkeling en anderzijds een culturele en maatschappelijke vertaling hiervan in herkenbare beelden van de traditionele kleinstad. Aan de noodzakelijke modernisering wordt dan met een neo-traditioneel jasje een nieuwe vertrouwdheid aangemeten. Met elke herhaling schuift dit beeld verder op in de richting van een soort tijdloze stedenbouwkundige formule. In deze tekst g...
ICC is a resilience-oriented approach that seeks to strengthen communities by tackling the determ... more ICC is a resilience-oriented approach that seeks to strengthen communities by tackling the determinants of health. It assumes accountability towards a territorially defined population, creating new cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary partnerships and taking a population health approach with a focus on prevention. In ICC, a new power dynamic and relationship is forged: people and communities co-design and co-produce health and care; the role of government is that of an equalizer (ensuring resources are allocated to those most in need) and investor in public services; and the traditional boundaries between informal and formal care are blurred.
In this paper we want to reflect on the use of toolkits as a codification strategy to fuel an exp... more In this paper we want to reflect on the use of toolkits as a codification strategy to fuel an expanding practice of ‘systemic design’. This critical reflection is rooted in the real‐life experience of bringing together two different sets of skills in the development of a Systemic Design Toolkit. Designers and concept‐driven system thinkers belong to different epistemic communities. While these fields of practice are arguably in the process of converging, in actual practice it proves to be a challenge to transcend their governing epistemological differences. What pragmatically unites these practitioners is their ambition to successfully codify a vast and layered knowledge base. A Systemic Design Toolkit is argued to offer promise as a ‘boundary object’ between the epistemic communities involved in creating the toolkit (the designers on the one hand and the conceptual system thinkers on the other) and between the toolkit developers and toolkit users. The paper closes with a tentative ...
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