Social Systems and Design

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Metcalf, Gary S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Translational Systems Sciences, 1
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Economics.; Social sciences.; Economics, general.; Business and Management, general.; Social Sciences, general.

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 work...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Creating Social Systems (Gary S. Metcalf)
• 2 An Epic Learning Journey: From the Club of Rome to Dialogic Design Science and DEMOSOPHIA (Alexander N. Christakis)
• 3 Cybernetics of Governance: The Cybersyn Project 1971–1973 (Raul Espejo)
• 4 Systemic Design Principles for Complex Social Systems (Peter H. Jones)
• 5 The Theory and Practice of Third Phase Science (Ken C. Bausch)
• 6 Designing the Means for Governing the Commons (Thomas R. Flanagan)
• 7 Co-laboratories of Democracy: Best Choices for Designing Sustainable Futures (Yiannis Laouris, Kevin M. C. Dye, Marios Michaelides, and Alexander, N. Christakis)
• 8 Better Late than Never: Open Systems Theory’s Plan to Deal with Climate Change (Merrelyn Emery)
• 9 Social Systems Design in Organizational Change (Doug Walton).