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What is Systemic Design?

Systemic design is an approach to design social and economic systems, structures and services. These systems operate in an open, interrelated and versatile context, which makes them complex. This complexity needs a holistic approach to see what is really going on, for instance in our health system, political system or food system.

Systemic design also is a methodology, a set of design methods, like meta design, social design, service design, systems thinking and creative thinking. This broad set of methods is needed to design and develop a divers palette of creative solutions, addressing the various scales and parts of complex problems.

Systemic design also is an iterative design process. This means that systemic designers work with constant feed back to modify their work.

Systemic design needs context and praxis to tune, adjust and set a concept.

At last, systemic design is multidisciplinary teamwork. It needs insights, expertise, praxis and creativity of all kinds of people and organisations to face the multiple questions, scales and lenses that needs to be reimagined, reframed and redesigned.