Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Analyzing and Transitioning Complex Systems
Except Integrated Sustainability
Tapping into basic notions of system, network, and resilience theory, the course provided learners with a renewed understanding of pressing sustainability issues. Throughout the activities, learners developed critical insights on system-oriented approaches to sustainable development, as opposed to object-oriented ones. They built a basic vocabulary on systemic sustainability, acquiring practical tools to break down and act upon systems into operational levels of objects and networks.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Tom Bosschaert
Lead SiD Developer
Except Integrated Sustainability
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify the main concepts underlying sustainability, and its relevance in our society today.
- Explore basic principles of systems thinking and network theory applied to sustainability.
- Access optimized versions of iterative design thinking.
- Perform quick impact scans across different dimensions of sustainability, enlarging your scope of impact.
- Evaluate the way success is defined for sustainable projects.
- Interpret systemic behaviours in society, and how they relate to sustainability transitions.
- Design your own solutioning process.
Syllabus
- How to break down systems in dimensions of time, space, and context, to better understand them.
- How to analyze strategic interventions across different scales of impact - i.e. direct impact, indirect impact, systemic impact.
- Different approaches in complex systems thinking - reductionist, holistic, and symbiotic.
- Different strategies for visualizing large-scale transitions on roadmaps that makes them tangible.
Issued on 18th January 2022
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