Overview
- Summarizes and compares the ideas of a number of systems theorists who incorporated design principles into their work through the latter half of the 20th century
- Provides current thinking about systems design theories by the original authors and other professionals who worked directly with them
- Demonstrates how systems design is being applied to projects around the world, creating democratic and sustainable structures in organizations and communities
Part of the book series: Translational Systems Sciences (TSS, volume 1)
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We live in the worlds that we help to create every day. Every activity either supports an existing system or effects some change, however small. But is it possible to consciously create the worlds in which we want to live?
This volume brings together systems theorists and practitioners who have worked on that question for decades. It explores connections between design and systems ideas to explain why some efforts have been more successful than others, and what is needed if we are to move forward. It offers reflections on early and large-scale attempts at impacting societal systems, as well as proposals for taking those ideas into the future. Examples date back to the Club of Rome in the 1960s and look forward to the creation of ecologically sustainable systems in the future. They address the need for collaboration and inclusion in settings from communities to corporations. And while theories are presented as support for the examples, they are explained in practical ways meant to be accessible both to students and to general readers.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Systems and Design
Editors: Gary S. Metcalf
Series Title: Translational Systems Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54478-4
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54477-7Published: 25 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56164-4Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-54478-4Published: 08 July 2014
Series ISSN: 2197-8832
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 238
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economics, general, Business and Management, general, Social Sciences, general